Have you been frustrated with AT&T lagging behind in iPhone feature deployment, and the upgrade pricing for the iPhone 3G S? Well there is a bit of good news. According to MacWorld, AT&T will be offering the MMS feature at no extra cost to customers who have a text messaging plan.In AT&T's iPhone 3G S FAQ, it states:
Later this summer, as part of the 3.0 software, AT&T will make multimedia messaging (MMS) available at no extra cost to customers with a text messaging bundle
Thankfully for the consumer, text plans for AT&T start at $5 per month for 200 text message. However, there is uncertainty as to whether MMS will be counted differently from regular text messages. We also don't know what specific date "later this summer" is referring to, whether it'd be on launch day, which is June 19, or sometime in July or August. There is also uncertainty as to when the tethering feature will be rolled out. As reported by Boy Genius Report, the reason AT&T gave for the delaying in rolling out MMS support was "because AT&T has to manually remove all the 'Opt Out MMS codes' on each account."
The bottom line is that this is good news for those who have been getting the short end of the stick lately when it comes to AT&T and the iPhone's features. As we previously reported, this isn't stopping consumers from pre-ordering the iPhone 3G S, causing AT&T to be sold out of the devices.
...And believe me I have used hundreds of phones...
But the speed and simplicity on the iphone can't be matched.
-Coming from a co-owner of a Wirelesscom Mobile store.
Im buying an iPhone cos of THIS guy!
Hmm, funny.
If one replaces AT&T with Apple, it is still true
"Get the word out, any way you like
200 text, picture, video, and Instant Messaging (IM) messages per month. Additional messages are 10 cents each."
I have a windows mobile smartphone and have a text plan and my text plan includes mms . This is with att wireless. I am also getting an iphone 3gs. So basically everything will be the same with an iphone as with a windows mobile smartphone. billing wise anyway.
So dont get excited.
All atts text packages include this but the iphone ones. All they are doing is making the iphone plans the same as their other smartphone plans.
Yeah, same. I liked them much more as Cingular. Noticing the customer service aspect declining severely, and they are getting more expensive.
I might not be renewing my contract.
Wow, what a deal. Just don't eat the green ones.
Not as for tethering, I got a feeling they will want to charge extra on top of the data plan, which will outrage customers no doubt. Not many people will tether their phones to laptops to saturate their network, so I don't think they should worry about it.
I would like to get an iPhone as well, and wouldnt mind paying $30/month (Even thought thats high IMO) but I just recently signed for blackjack 2.
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