Verizon Text Messaging rates increasing

[Led Zeppelin]

I'm really starting to hate Verizon. They nickle and dime you for every little service, and on my bill this month, in small little print, I noticed a little blurb that said incoming text messages are increasing from 2 cents to 10 cents per message received. Outgoing texts will remain at .10 per message sent. By doing this, they are really trying to push their "text messaging plans", for an extra $5 to $15 a month.

What really annoys me is that anyone with a computer can go onto Verizon's website (or Cingular, Nextel, Sprint for that matter) and send anyone else a text message, and the person receiving it is charged. That's not right.

 

Yup, I saw this on my bill too.

You should be able to decline a text message if you want to.

In other news though, does this change enable people to get out of their contracts early if they don't like the charge?

 

[gigapet]

how can they charge you for incoming? you have no way to prevent it someone can just spam you into bankruptcy no?

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Yup, I saw this on my bill too.

You should be able to decline a text message if you want to.

In other news though, does this change enable people to get out of their contracts early if they don't like the charge?

You should be able to since they're changing the terms of the original contract.

 

[Cal166]

What can you do about it, Verizon is taking over most of the business. I think once my contract is up, i think its time for a change....

 

[Miramonti]

That's really disgusting.

 

[arod]

wow even my prepaid plan on tmobile doesnt charge that much (free to receive)/ .10 for each send.

 

[minus1972]

contract free in a couple weeks...can't wait

 

[randomlinh]

dammit. that sucks. what is cingular/att's incoming rates? I know sprint is 10/10 already. granted, I do have the $3 package, but still... ugh... blasted costs.. too bad verizon is the only service i like around my area.. and well, all my calls are essentially free since 90% of the ppl i talk to are 'in'

 

[isasir]

WTF, that's retarded and pisses me off. I get mails from people I don't even know at least once a week it seems, which wasn't horrendous at 2 cents each. But you start charging a dime and it can add up.

I'm surprised they're still nickel and diming people especially with Cingular/AT&T looming to take a lot of business away from 'em.

 

[Lonyo]

Wow.
In the UK providers only charge for outgoing texts except in some circumstances where you text a company sor a service (eg: a competition which then texts questions to your phone).
Texts from others are free to recieve.

 

[cvstrat]

LOL that's what you get for being with Verizon

That is a total rip-off tho. Ridiculous.

 

[40Hands]

wow thats seriously fvcked. I wish there was something we could do, like kick the verizon CEO in the nuts or something similar. It should be illegal to charge people for something they have no control over.

 

[gigapet]

Originally posted by: BroeBo
wow thats seriously fvcked. I wish there was something we could do, like kick the verizon CEO in the nuts or something similar. It should be illegal to charge people for something they have no control over.

this cannot be legal like i said before. I can goto the verizon website and send someone 10,000 text messages in a month. They have to pay $1000 dollars for some ass spamming. F-that

 

[Al Neri]

they dont have a flat fee like the other ones?

my time is up in feb. i was thinking of getting a sidekick, but VZW's service>* esp in NYC

 

[ViRGE]

In Soviet Russia, receiving text messages costs you.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: isasir
WTF, that's retarded and pisses me off. I get mails from people I don't even know at least once a week it seems, which wasn't horrendous at 2 cents each. But you start charging a dime and it can add up.

I'm surprised they're still nickel and diming people especially with Cingular/AT&T looming to take a lot of business away from 'em.

Incoming messages are free with AT&T

 

[SuperFreaky]

Anybody have the mobile # of some higher up verizon employees?

 

[xyion]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: isasir
WTF, that's retarded and pisses me off. I get mails from people I don't even know at least once a week it seems, which wasn't horrendous at 2 cents each. But you start charging a dime and it can add up.

I'm surprised they're still nickel and diming people especially with Cingular/AT&T looming to take a lot of business away from 'em.

Incoming messages are free with AT&T

but they are NOT free with cingular. which is one of the many reasons I didnt migrate.

 

[Aharami]

:|

 

[Sphexi]

Boohoo. Pay the $5 a month for unlimited In-network texts and 50 other texts. Otherwise stop complaining.

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: BroeBo
wow thats seriously fvcked. I wish there was something we could do, like kick the verizon CEO in the nuts or something similar. It should be illegal to charge people for something they have no control over.

this cannot be legal like i said before. I can goto the verizon website and send someone 10,000 text messages in a month. They have to pay $1000 dollars for some ass spamming. F-that

What I'd really like to do is to call Verizon each time I'm spammed from someone that I didn't want to receive a message and inform them to not charge me for that text message. Maybe if enough people did this, they'd lower the charge.

'course, how many people would wait on hold for 15 min. or more to save 10 cents... Ah well, it would've been a good idea in principle.

 

[gigapet]

PSA: any10digitcellnumber@teleflip.com gets you a free text message

 

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right when i clicked this thread I got a txt message from some random number!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mugs]

That's pretty smart on their part... probably 95% of text message users are in their teens or early 20s, and I've heard about enough $300 phone bills to know teenagers have no restraint.