Texting gets more expensive

RIDICULOUS!!! pay to send and receive!! in Europe we pay only to send... and 20 cents!!!
come on ATT. So many dropped calls and you have the balls to raise prices!!!
You should be ashamed! I have cut off my text for my wife and I. I did the same for my parents family plan (with my brother racking up $50 a month in SMS)
I hope people follow and so NO to this price hike!!! It is hard to have competition when all providers provide terrible service... Go to Europe... or better, INDIA!! you will see ahat good wireless service is!

The answer is simple: The carriers have successfully chased consumers into bundles of text messages.

I have an iPhone with ``+1500'' package and additional texts are only $0.03. If you choose a la carte, you get the $0.20 price. So looking at the cheapest bundle of $5.00 for 200 txts (that's only $0.025/txt), it's easy to understand how carriers have managed to "heat the water." At this point, you either never txt (and hate it when people txt you) and pay $0.20, txt a little and pay a flat $5.00 (as insurance against your kids), or txt all the time and pay $20.00 for unlimited txting. Any way you slice it, the carriers have found a model so that they get paid.

Look on the bright side, at least they now have unlimited packages and mobile operators aren't charging extra for Caller ID.

Telus charges for Caller ID and for text messages Telus sends it to its customers.