{"id":12921,"date":"2011-08-18T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/08\/18\/attunlimited-text-messaging-or-pay-per-use\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:54:00","slug":"attunlimited-text-messaging-or-pay-per-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12921","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T:Unlimited Text Messaging or Pay Per Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/repeat_nochoice.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 6px 15px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Repeat After Me: You Have No Choice\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Repeat After Me: You Have No Choice\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/repeat_nochoice_thumb.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019re an AT&amp;T wireless customer thinking of signing up for the $10 \/ 1000 text message plan, you\u2019d better get to callin\u2019; starting August 21, AT&amp;T will retire this plan and go to a two-tier system: $20 per month for unlimited messaging, or pay-per-use \u2013 $0.20 for text messages and $0.30 for video and photo messages.<\/p>\n<p>The rumor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/08\/17\/atandt-streamlining-individual-messaging-plans-august-21st-leavin\/\">reported late last night <\/a>by Engadget was quickly confirmed by the carrier.&#160; If you\u2019re already on the $10\/month messaging plan, you can keep it, even if you upgrade phones or change voice plans, but new customers and existing AT&amp;T<em>ers<\/em> who aren\u2019t already on the plan will no longer have the option as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/iphone\/news\/2011\/04\/free-iphone-text-gvoice\/\">Google Voice<\/a>, <em>anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n<h6 align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teacherdudebbq2\/4751786360\/\">Image courtesy of TeacherDudeBBQ<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an AT&#38;T wireless customer thinking of signing up for the $10 \/ 1000 text message plan, you\u2019d better get to callin\u2019; starting August 21, AT&#38;T will retire this plan and go to a two-tier system: $20 per month for unlimited messaging, or pay-per-use \u2013 $0.20 for text messages and $0.30 for video and [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}