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Alltel's My Circle Plans Gain Free Text Messages

Jun 30, 2008, 9:54 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Subscribers to Alltel's My Circle calling plans will now be able to send/receive unlimited text messages to/from those phone numbers that are part of their circle or other Alltel customers as long as they subscribe to a messaging pack costing $7.99 per month or more. They can also still subscribe to fully unlimited messaging plans for $20 per month. The new unlimited My Circle text messaging feature is available starting today.

source: Alltel

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AvgJoe

Jun 30, 2008, 11:48 AM

TEMPOARILY........LOL

Another feature Verizon will swipe.......

jskrenes

AvgJoe said:
Another feature Verizon will swipe.......

I wonder if Alltel is intentionally doing this to sabotage Verizon. Sounds like they have the attitude of "if we can't keep our customers, you won't either."

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JasonTroester

Jun 30, 2008, 8:01 PM

FREE?

The last time I looked paying 7.99 and up doesn't mean unlimited text is free?

XXX

Exactly. It's idiotic! There's "Free" in one sentence, and then "7.99 or more" in the next sentence. I would like to know how many morons it took to come up with that plan. The first time I read it, I thought it was a joke. I'm starting to look forw...
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robritcomm

THANK YOU!!!!

robritcomm

Jul 1, 2008, 1:37 PM

how is this free

?? please somebody tell me ??

VZWookiee

Jun 30, 2008, 11:01 AM

Why make this change?

when verizon gets a hold of it they will strip it away and charge you an arm and leg.

D Dizzle

I agree. I think this is Chad's last stab at the world before falling into the state of none existant. . . .

I say Alltel did it to make Verizon look bad when they strip it away. .

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CSIdude42

Jun 30, 2008, 10:45 AM

It's all good now..

This would be very appealing to someone who only had a small group of people they activly talked to. I know you have to have regular minutes but still this is a step. A neat thing they could add would be unlimited picture and video messaging to anyone in your circle.

Multi-Tasker

That is included with text messaging. and YES it is also included with M2M/MyCircle

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