Cingular To Hike SMS Price?

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There is news around that Cingular is going to hike SMS price to 15 cents per message from its current 10 cents per message.

There’s word out that Cingular is changing its per text-message fee from 10 cents to 15 cents starting late January. This site says1:

Effective January 21, 2007, the pay-per-use pricing for SMS and IM will increase to $0.15/msg. This will affect all postpaid and Pick Your Plan customers who do not currently subscribe to an SMS package. . . Notification will be in the December bill and in [an] SMS sent to Pick Your Plan customers.

Source: GigaOM » Cingular To Boost Text Rate?

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