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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by tedmiston on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:17AM (#13469443)
> I got started with GV back when carriers were charging $0.25/each to send or receive texts

What? Unlimited texting has been included in every phone plan I've ever had since the first iPhone or earlier, before Google Voice existed.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by mwfunk on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:22AM (#13469677)
Unlimited SMS has been the norm for a little while now (5ish years maybe?), but it wasn't too long ago that the lower tier plans for every mobile carrier in the US (not sure about elsewhere) had a per text charge, possibly after hitting a low monthly limit on free texts, or possibly with no free texts at all.
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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by SamBam on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:03AM (#13481400)
> every phone plan I've ever had since the first iPhone

Exactly... You realize there was a time before then, right?

In the mid 2000s, texts cost between 10-20c to send, unless you bought a bundled plan, which weren't actually that common then, and even then you were limited to usually 200 texts/mo.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/aboutus/mission/viewpoint...

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