{"id":247382,"date":"2010-01-29T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/c3b30f06d68c4927204a59ea4f0c50e9"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:05:00","slug":"article-att-to-require-messaging-plans-on-feature-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247382","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: AT&amp;T to require messaging plans on feature phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/92590-att-messaging.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;T messaging required\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Verizon&#8217;s decision to require data plans on all of their 3G feature phones, it appears that AT&amp;T is following suit.&nbsp; When purchasing certain feature phones, the following stipulations must be met:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual lines activated must have a combined total of $20 worth of features &#8211; that could be $5 in messaging and $15 in data, or $20 of unlimited messaging.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Family plans must have a minimum of $30 worth of features (unlimited text messaging).<\/li>\n<li>If you have an existing &#8220;quick messaging&#8221; device, you don&#8217;t have to do anything at the moment.&nbsp; You will have to change when upgrading, however.<\/li>\n<li>Affected phones include the Pantech Reveal, Pantech Impact, Motorola Karma, Samsung Flight, Samsung  Impression, Samsung Magnet, Samsung Solstice, Samsung Mythic, Samsung  Propel, LG Xenon, LG Neon, and the LG Vu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I said with the implementation of Verizon&#8217;s data plans, I find this to be very unfortunate.&nbsp; There are people that purchase these devices and <em>don&#8217;t <\/em>send thousands of messages per month (or consume data).&nbsp; How do you feel about this?&nbsp; Do you see it as inevitable, or does it make you want to switch carriers?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2010\/01\/29\/yeah-att-is-requiring-messaging-plans-with-feature-phones\/\" >BGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JoZkXHkxbdIU8v_7cQF1PubTUyQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JoZkXHkxbdIU8v_7cQF1PubTUyQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JoZkXHkxbdIU8v_7cQF1PubTUyQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JoZkXHkxbdIU8v_7cQF1PubTUyQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/2lvmDU7vIuc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Verizon&#8217;s decision to require data plans on all of their 3G feature phones, it appears that AT&amp;T is following suit.&nbsp; When purchasing certain feature phones, the following stipulations must be met: Individual lines activated must have a combined total of $20 worth of features &#8211; that could be $5 in messaging and $15 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}