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I use TextFree unlimited. It is free app and you can text and receive messages without charge. You are assigned a phone number to give to others. People who use regular AT&T SMS can send to your special number. Works great for the few that I give my text number.

My 6 year old and 9 year old granddaughters have an account on TextFree Unlimited on old iPhones that we have setup as iPod Touches with no AT&T service and we text back and forth at no cost to any of us.

The immediate family, husband, kids and grandkids all use it and send text messages all the time. My daughter uses it on her iP4. My husband and I use on ip3GS and it even works to send to other non iphone users.

Hope this helps. When I do get a regular text message on my 3GS I am charged the per text fee of 20 cents per text, 30 cents per photo. You can also have AT&T block all text messages so that you won't incur these extra fees if you like.

--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, jparkerg@... wrote:
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> First, I don't text and, for the most part, have not felt any need for that service. But, my grown kids *do* text and occasionally they send one my way. SInce I have not paid for texting in my ATT plan, I do not get the messages.
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> I stopped at the ATT store today to inquire about the plans and costs.
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> As many of you already know, the options are few. Basically the least I can pay is $5/month per phone for some set number of text messages.
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> SInce I might use perhaps ten or so a month, five bucks seems a bit high. So my wife got me wondering if there isn't some app that can take advantage of the data surplus that we have and somehow create the ability to send/receive text messages -- outside of the ATT text plans.
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> Thoughts?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> John
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