Heads up for Cingular customers who Text Message

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Originally Posted by Cingular.com

What messages am I billed for?
Cingular bills for all messages whether sent or received, read or unread, solicited or unsolicited. Also, any message sent or received that is longer than 160 characters will be delivered as multiple segments of up to 160 characters each. Each segment is billed as a separate message.

Here is the link to where this is Here is the link to the Cingular FAQs where this is located. The wording "solicited or unsolicited" is key here. It appears they can, and will charge you for any and all advertising messages you receive. IIRC, the ability to send advertising text messages was one of (if not the main)the reasons companies stopped charging for incomming text messages.

Originally Posted by AT&T section

Getting Text Messaging
Pay-per-use Text Messaging is already available on your account. Each message sent is $0.10 and incoming messages are free. To add a Text Messaging plan and save, former AT&T Wireless customers who have not transferred their calling plan to Cingular must call 1-877-400-1080. Or you can transfer your service online to a Cingular Wireless rate plan with Rollover, and add a Text Messaging package.

This will be very interesting to watch as it unfolds. Both people I spoke with said they had no noticeable notification of this change. That's not to say it wasn't in size 1 font buried in their bill.