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Verizon increases SMS rates -- customers now free of their contracts
Posted Jan 12th 2007 3:25PM by Donald Melanson
Filed under: Cellphones
It looks like Verizon Wireless is following in Sprint's SMS footsteps, announcing a planned hike in text messaging rates for those not currently subscribed to a messaging package. The hike, which will take effect March 1st, will bump the cost of sending a text message to the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico from $0.10 to $0.15 per message, with the price for international text messages remaining at $0.25 per message. The cost of receiving a message from customers of foreign wireless carriers, however, will increase to $0.15 whe...
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Verizon increases SMS rates -- customers now free of their contracts
Posted Jan 12th 2007 3:25PM by Donald Melanson
Filed under: Cellphones
It looks like Verizon Wireless is following in Sprint's SMS footsteps, announcing a planned hike in text messaging rates for those not currently subscribed to a messaging package. The hike, which will take effect March 1st, will bump the cost of sending a text message to the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico from $0.10 to $0.15 per message, with the price for international text messages remaining at $0.25 per message. The cost of receiving a message from customers of foreign wireless carriers, however, will increase to $0.15 whe...
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With your lowest churn rate this shouldn't be much of an issue for you right?
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Crapbag said:
With your lowest churn rate this shouldn't be much of an issue for you right?
Right! I not going to leave my service because of texting, hmmm...pay an early termantion fee to get out of Verizon, and then when my other service is dropping calls another early termantion fee again I think not. Who cares its 5 cents more!!! Cheap ass! 🤣
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not really because you probably have a package and this would not matter then. Overage rates are remaining .10 for those who have a package.
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chocolateman85006 said:
It matters if you do a lot of text messages.
I do alot of texting I really dont care it cost alot
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My guess is that the executives at Verizon, SprintPCS, and Cingular hired people to figure out how much churn (lost money) they would have if they waived ETFs due to this increase, and compare it to the cost of the lawsuits that would result from customers wanting to be released (lost money). Whichever lost the company the least money won.
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that is scary, just like the car industry. I remember in the 80's ford knew the old mustangs would explode if they were rear ended to hard because of the design of the gas tank, but they decided not to recall them because it cost more to fix them all then it would just to pay off the lawsuits for the percentage that caught fire in accidents 😈
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hrm..why does this sound familiar... Oh yea..Sprint and Cingular already pulled it off..
T-Mobile has yet to perform this raise...but I see them following suit soon too.
T-Mobile has yet to perform this raise...but I see them following suit soon too.
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That's what i miss about T-Mizzle: the 9.99 unlim messages for family plans.
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What it breaks down to is that if they wish to leave they will. Just make sure in the next few months you step up your customer service so as not to give someone a reason to leave. If you are activating new accounts it probably wouldn't hurt to be thorough with your secondary phone agreements as well.
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If so and you have had your contract for less than 181 days you are going to get hit with a cancellation fee anyways. Usually in the $300 price range.............PER PHONE!
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