How to Reduce Your Mobile Text Messaging Costs

If you are the head of a household that has a lot of teens on your cellular plan then you probably have been shocked after looking at your most recent bills and seeing how expensive that they have become. This is because of the fact that all of the cellular phone companies have raised their rates from .15 last years to .25 and up for some companies. This is an increase of almost 100% but this is not a result of the economy because most things that we buy on a daily basis have not increased by this large of an amount. It is actually due to the fact that teens are texting more this year than they were last year. Since people are using this service more they figure that they can raise the rates in order to generate more revenue. This is a way to keep their profits large because of the fact that they do not have the ability to change your contract so they increase your rates but your teens still text more now than ever and this gets to be quiet expensive. If you would like to save on text messages there are various ways for you to do so:

1) Once you determine what provider the recipient has for their cellular service you can reduce your costs by going to that provider's website and typing a message to be sent to the person you want to text. If they have Verizon you can click here https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp. If they have AT&T you can click here http://www.onlinetextmessage.com/att-text-message.php and for Sprint you can click here http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/textmessaging/compose. You will not be charged for these but you will not be able to get a reply.

2) You cold also sign up for SMSnow.com which is a website that will allow you to keep an address book of your friends and you will have an inbox that can receive replies to text messages that you send to mobile users. You will need to know their provider but this service is great because you have the ability to have text message conversations on this website which will save you money.