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Unfortunately news that AT&T is planning to increase its price for texting has reached my ears. As of March 30, 2008, AT&T plans to up their current texting price from $.05 to $.20 per message (SMS), additionally, AT&T will also be raising their multi-media messaging (MMS) cost from $.05 to $.30 per message (the iPhone does not support MMS). This price-change will affect iPhone users on one of the standard AT&T plans who are allotted the 200 text messages per month, the 200 first  messages will be free (as per the plan), but then AT&T will begin charging $0.20 per message. To "compensate" so to speak for this drastic SMS price boost, AT&T (in collaboration with Apple) has released a new "unlimited" plan. This plan gives the user unlimited minutes, unlimited texting on nights/weekends, but unfortunately still limits them to 200 SMS messages during the daytime, and can be purchased for $119.99 per month.

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