Text overload
Posted by Gypsy on Jul 22, 2006
I’m all about the text messaging. Right now, I have 27 text threads going on (I have a Treo 650, which puts text messages into threads similar to AIM). Granted, I don’t text in all of those everyday, but those are the people I most frequently text massage. Unfortunately, while Verizon has amazing coverage, they have shit for text messaging plans. Even so, it came as a bit of a surprise yesterday when I got my phone bill and had over $400 in text messaging charges.
What’s funny is that I have one of the smallest family plans Verizon offers (my mom is on my plan), and I still never go through all those minutes.
So here is the deal. I’m going to limit all texting with non-Verizon customers. I only have 2,500 messages a month to non-Verizon peeps (unlimited to Verizon customers). I used more than 6,000 last month. So if you don’t have Verizon and have something to talk about, please just call me. I hate talking on the phone, but I’m going to have to bite the bullet on this one. I just can’t afford another phone bill like this one. I don’t even know how I’m going to pay this one.
HOLY SHIT!
Girl I know! Mine is like that every month too… I
Hmmm… Have you checked with T-Mobile??? They used to have an unlimited text message plan that was free regrdless of who sent the message or who they were with. My friends used to get pissed for getting charged for the tons of TMs I sent, and I never thought about it since it was free to me… It was one of their $19.99 a month plans too.
youch!!!
I feel really guilty as we were just texting a bunch the day before you sent this… which I know is probably not on the bill you just received so you’ll probably have a pretty big bill next month too unless you were able to nip the non-V texting in the bud soon enough… :0(
No worries, hon. I still have 2,500 a month to non-Verizon people, so I’ve just cut back considerably.