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"Giving in" ? That's rediculous. AT&T wants you to buy their over-inflated $20 pricing. Or $30 for families. Then, they increased pay-per-use to $.20 forcing those users to switch. Also, they only offer 200 or 1500 Message plans. If you wanted something in the middle you're again forced to buy the over-priced unlimited. These plans are not good, competitive or reasonable. They create windfall profits. Some might call that price gouging.

"AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte
John Biggs on July 1, 2008

Today is basic math day at CrunchGear where we discovered that if 160 bytes of SMS data costs twenty cents then 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) of data would cost 131,072 cents, or $1,310.72.

Check out the prices for a text message plan on AT&T, the exclusive carrier of the iPhone 3G in the United States. AT&T wants twenty cents ($0.20) per text message if you don’t sign up for a plan. A text message is nothing more than 160 bytes of data. The max is 160 characters, and one character equals one byte of data. Great.

In other words, if AT&T charged data downloads at the rate they charge text messages downloading 1MB of data would cost you $1,310.72."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/01/atts-text-messages-cost-1310-per-megabyte/
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