> I don't know that we are being ripped off, but if you multiply $10 by 5 family members then it becomes $50 and the $30 unlimited text at ATT is a better price.
All of us who are paying "normal" carrier rates for texts messaging are being ripped off.
Earlier, I wrote that ten thousand iMessages use no more than 1.6 megabytes of data.
Is that "unlimited"?
One message every 3 minutes, 15 hours a day, 30 days a month, is about ten thousand messages. If all five members of your Family Plan text at that rate, they will use 8.0 megabytes of data.
At AT&T's current MOST expensive data plan -- $20/month for 300 megabytes/month -- those 8 megabytes would use up 2.7% of your data allowance (if it came out of your data allowance).
[Since everyone would have to be texting essentially continuously through every waking minute all month, you wouldn't have much OTHER data expense, but that's beside the point.]
On this most expensive AT&T plan, that much data costs about 53 CENTS.
On the text plan you have chosen, you are actually PAYING $30 for those texts (or for any lesser amount of texts).
$30 for $0.53 worth of data, or less.
What was that about not being ripped off?
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