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Break Your Cingular Contract Without Fee, Thanks 2 Txt Msg $ Raise - Consumerist

Gimlet-eyed Cingular customers may have noticed the cellphne provider changing its text message rates from $.10 to $.15 and realized they can use that to escape contract without early termination fee.

(tags: mobile cingular)

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 21st, 2006 at 8:27 am and is filed under Misc. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Judi Sohn Says:
December 21st, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Hi Steve, you may have missed the follow-up response from Cingular. It seems that the good orange folks are sayiing that the TOS clause is excused because it’s based on a service you subscribe to. SMS pay-per-use is there by default, not a subscription, so apparently Cingular can do whatever they want with the rates. In fact, this is likely a way of forcing folks like me who get/receive maybe 20 texts a month to go for a plan. I couldn’t see the logic in paying $4.99 a month for something that I pay an average of $2-3 a month a-la-carte.