# Do you text?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-text/386995>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 7, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-text/386995 "2007-01-07T00:19:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-text/386995/61 "2007-01-08T21:06:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Priceguy]  
Not the same at all, actually.  
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Oh, sorry, didn’t mean to imply they were. I was just giving an example that I do messaging other than e-mail.

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-text/386995/62 "2007-01-09T05:20:11Z")

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[QUOTE=Trunk]  
How expensive is that?  
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On my family plan, all three of our lines have unlimited multimedia and text messaging for $9.99 a month. So that ten dollars covers my monthly ~2200, my brother’s ~4000, and my mom’s ~10. $9.99 / 6210 = about $0.0016 per message. Can’t beat it. That’s the grandfathered price – it’s now $19.99 for new contracts. Single line plans have the same option for $14.99.

It’s part of the reason I love T-Mobile. That and their data plans.

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