AT&T Cingular AT&T Charges WAY too much for texting, nickles and dimes the customer to death! Internet

I think this is a general complaint that will cover the concerns of many AT&T customers and it finally needs to reach the board-room.  I have been a faithful customer of this company for many years.  I was their customer when it was Cingular and the only thing that I could think of that was more of a rip-off than their company was Verizon - which is why I left them for AT&T!  But, I take serious issue with their texting plan. 

AT&T has a hideous texting plan.  You have only two choices.  You can either get the shaft with 200 texts per month for $5 or unlimited texts for $20.  There is no in-between.  That wouldn't be so bad if their cell phone "talk" plans didn't have the same kind of "jump" in between plans.  The company wants to sell all of these data/texting phones but they don't want to sell plans that are conducive to the phones without strangling the customers to death bit by bit as their bills rise $20 with each service that they need with their plan.  The texting plans are a total turn off when (((competitor's name redacted))) is offering the whole sha-bang for $99/month.  On AT&T, you can only get unlimited talk for that price! 

Here are my suggestions:
 
1.  If AT&T claims to have the largest coverage in America, let all of their faithful customers have FREE texting amongst one another.
2. Offer an in-between texting pricing plan.  I'd suggest $5 for 500 texts.  That seems more reasonable.
3.  Offer unlimited texting for $10.  There is absolutely no reason to be charging $20 for texting.   Data communications is not that expensive and we all know that.  If it were, (((redacted))) wouldn't be able to do it for a much cheaper price. 

Get with the program AT&T!!!

sorry, allowing you to give a competitors name would instigate others to just file against their competition, to only come back later to suggest their company, ..plus, if you post a competitors name more than likely they will show up on search engines as a Rip-off! - - your comments on this policy are welcome. CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report. In this case we removed an alleged competitors name