I'm feeling really old here, but I have no idea how to text message something. And there was this radio station giving away tickets for something and they said just text the word blah blah blah, to blah blah blah. And I have no idea how to text!
Tina, just scroll down on your cell phone to "text message", hit select and type your message. It will ask you to enter the number you're sending to, enter that, push send. It's really simple!! Every phone is slightly different, so just play around for a couple of minutes, and I guarantee you'll find it.
When you text you are texting to a number or to an e-mail address. So if you wanted to send to a number, generally you would put the number in as the receiptent and then send the message and so forth.
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Isnt' there an extra charge for texting, I don't think I have that. I had a whopper of a bill from using my phone while on vacation in Florida, must be roaming charges. I hate that. I thought phones were getting cheapr to use. I should call them and try to figure out the extra charges.
Text messaging is .10 per text sent or received, now if you use premium messaging like for Deal or No Deal and stuff like that then they add their own charges as well and I think it's .99 for D.O.N.D same thing for American Idol. The roaming thing totally sux because you must be on a very old plan. The only plans offered now are Nation plans. THey are great unless; however there is a chance that you were grandfathered in with one of the old super home or Region plans. Those are really good for people who rarely travel. Some of them have more minute than the newer Nation Plans, but also there toward the end before the did away with the Super Home and Region plans, they cut the minutes to being less than the Nation to discourage dealers from offering it to customers since very soon they would be gone completely. Now if you have all GSM phones (anything 2 years old or newer) you can deffintely get on a Nation plan if you want it, but if you have any GAIT phones (nokia 6340i or Sony Ericsson T62U) then you have to stick with a Super Home plan because Nation Plans only work with GSM phones and GAIT runs off of both GSM and the older TDMA systems which could mean roaming even from home.
One other thing to keep in mind if you change your plan is the contract. Make sure that it won't change your contract dates. I have no clue what the new contract rules are.
Now if you have all GSM phones and you are on a Nation plan, call Cingular right away becasue soemthing is deffinitely wrong. Oh and a handly little hint. Keep a close eye on the minutes that they are showing that you've used lately, because any time that you travel there is a possibility that you are using another carrier's towers and if you are even if it is covered without extra charge on your plan, you can get burned by delayed overage. It can take a little bit longer for your minutes to register with Cingular if you used a different carrier's towers and if those havent' shown up and you especially if you don't have rollover they can bite you in the butt.
A lot of these things are stuff that reps neglect to tell you because they either don't care or figure you'll never really need to know it, but I like being a very informed consumer so I like to pass it along.
Here are the current Plans for Cingular if it helps you any
These are the individual plans all of them come with Unlimited Mobile to Mobile for Cingular customers and Unlimited Nights and weekends except for the first which comes with 5000 NW minutes (lol I know there's pretty much no difference but that's Cingular for ya) 450 Minutes (Nation) $39.99 900 Minutes (Nation) $59.99 1350 Minutes (Nation) $79.99 2000 Minutes (Nation) $99.99 4000 Minutes (Nation) $149.99 6000 Minutes (Nation) $199.99
Ok the first price you see for these is the base price which coveres the first 2 phones everything after that is an extra 9.99 . All of them have unlimited nights and weekends and mobile 2 mobile
Oh every single plan has rollover, but you need to keep one thing in mind also if you do change your plan. Cingular has a new "protocol". It's really sucky but I guess I can't say much since I don't work there anymore. If you change plans from one rollover plan to another and you have a lot of rollover stored, you only take the amount of minutes that are on your new plan. For example if you have 5,000 minutes saved up for rollover and you change to the 1400 nation plan so that you don't have anymore roaming, instead of keeping all 5000 minutes you keep 1400 of your rollover minutes. One good thing aobut it is that your "timer" for their expiration starts over on the day your new plan starts so instead of losing little by little over the next months they are stored for a full year from that day.
Ok yeah it's a crappy rule, but what I was telling customers before I left was that if they have that much rollover, than they need a smaller plan anyways which will save them some money instead of building up rollover and not using them.
I have an old plan $29.99 per month, it wouldn't be worth the extra $10 for me to get the nation wide plan since we don't travel much. Next time I'll by a phone card!! I could have even a cheaper plan if I'd stayed with Verizon but I got mad at them when my minutes didn't carry over. But I'm happy with Cingular.
Except their Go phone is annoying. I got one for my son and he's not using the minutes, so the money gets wiped out if we don't use it. And so now I'm trying to get my husband to at least use up the money that's in there.
