Our family has the Family Share plan through Verizon. We pay a basic rate of $39.20 for 700 minutes of talk time, plus $10 per phone for a “line access fee”, plus $24 for “unlimited email and web” on the one smartphone, plus $10 for 1000 texts on one daughter’s phone and 5 for 250 texts on the other one's. It's .10 per text for any number over those limits, and we old folks pay $.20 per text. This works out to around $130.00 a month plus taxes and surcharges and whatever the hell else Verizon feels like charging us every month. It would be silly for me or Mr. Legend to buy a text plan, since we never send more than a dollar or two worth of texts in any given month.
I see that Verizon has an “Unlimited Talk & Text” plan for only $190 a month. It doesn’t seem like that great a deal to me, given how little we seem to love our phones. I’m willing to bet that our usage won’t go over our limits enough to make an unlimited plan worth it.