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"AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte
John Biggs on July 1, 2008

Today is basic math day at CrunchGear where we discovered that if 160 bytes of SMS data costs twenty cents then 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) of data would cost 131,072 cents, or $1,310.72.

Check out the prices for a text message plan on AT&T, the exclusive carrier of the iPhone 3G in the United States. AT&T wants twenty cents ($0.20) per text message if you don’t sign up for a plan. A text message is nothing more than 160 bytes of data. The max is 160 characters, and one character equals one byte of data. Great.

In other words, if AT&T charged data downloads at the rate they charge text messages downloading 1MB of data would cost you $1,310.72."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/01/atts-text-messages-cost-1310-per-megabyte/
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as well as truly unlimited data. i can download more that 184MB a day!]]>Apr 16th 2007 3:46PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
Why are calling plans so confusing?]]>Apr 16th 2007 3:50PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
That'd be too sweet so I doubt it. $40 for pda + unlimited text. too good to be true. I wonder what it is. It only says "Included" for the unlimited texting plans.]]>Apr 16th 2007 3:53PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
What each rows mean:

#1 Plan Name
#2 Number of text messages
#3 Megabytes of data (per month)
#4 I don't know (maybe Video Sharing/Calling Minutes?)
#5 Pricing for regular cell phones
#6 Plan Code for #5
#7 I don't know (maybe PDA pricing?)
#8 Plan Code for #7 (if applicable)

And todd, yes you can download/downstream unlimited data to your phone (Web Browsing, Java Applications, Cingular Video, Multimedia Messages, Video Sharing/Calling) though I sometimes use it for tethering (Cingular doesn't check)

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http://www.boygeniusreport.com/Documents/attmessaging.pdf

Will "unlimited" really mean UNLIMITED, this time? If I start slinging live TV to my phone I will NOT get any overages for gigs and gigs of data transfered?


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And in terms of data usage, the average Cingular Video user will suck up more bandwidth in a month than the average PDA user. PDA plan costs more because they give you you're own public IP rather than routing your internet via proxys (and block ports with their firewalls). I'm pretty sure these plans are going to marketed the iPhone crowd.]]>Apr 16th 2007 6:53PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 16th 2007 6:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
Also, what I was noticing, in their "Competitive Info", they list $19.99 for Unlimited Text/IM/Pics/Video. And when they list Verizon's Unlimited for $20, they note: "Verizon states that they charge airtime for picture and video messages but it is not billed"

Is this to say that now Pics and Videos will be not tack on an additional data charge? That would be SWEET (though I already have a unlimited data plan).

I just remembered that unlimited IMs means I can sign on AIM on my phone and not worry about how AIM racks up text messages with the buddy list refresh.

But back to my point, does anybody know if now pics/vids will rack up data charges now?]]>Apr 16th 2007 7:06PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
Now I can switch and throw my SIM card back in my XDA Exec!]]>Apr 16th 2007 8:55PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 16th 2007 10:23PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 16th 2007 11:39PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 17th 2007 3:14AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 17th 2007 12:38PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
media bundles are not for bb. bb's need bb data plans. they can have the text plans. but they do not use medianet.]]>Apr 17th 2007 11:46PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 18th 2007 5:01PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 19th 2007 5:25PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 19th 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/Apr 25th 2007 2:21PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/atandt-gives-in-to-unlimited-messaging-trend-too/
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