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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5595727" data-attributes="member: 8835">snippet about CD prices vs. tapes:there'd been a report on the topic that I'd read articles about.  When CDs first hit the market, prices were higher.  The industry claimed it was because of initial conversion costs for production and that it would drop.  Because consumers kept buying, when costs actually did drop, prices did not actually follow.  What's probably changed the game now, is iTunes $1 songs or full album for $10.  That starts forcing CD makers to drop prices, since nobody's gonna pay $15-20 for an album they can get for $10.Excepting for that I like physical media and mp3 format for all my devices, rather than iTunes format...AT&T most certainly does not bundle SMS with Dataplan.  at least not in the family plans.Dataplan is $30/month for unlimited (now unavailable for new subs).  SMS is like $15/month for 1500 texts.  $30 for unlimited.  Very seperate.Despite the fact that SMS is effectively using the same hardware bits and network bits as your dataplan. (more wallet rape)Sprint is the only vendor I know who has an everything unlimited plan.There may be some special plans with it all bundled, but in plain english, they just charge you a crapton of money for all the unlimited in each category.As for coporate phone plans, that too depends on your company.  My company has a plan with Verizon.  It feels like a family plan with a shared # of minutes and 200 texts.  We go over minutes limit a lot (something's not right with that).  Its free to me, in the sense that my company will pay for the ammo I need to kill a problem.  But it's costing my company, because for some reason, we don't have a large enough plan.  Heck, we had to add "Friends and Family" to the plan (didn't come with it already) so we could add some concall #s and thus save some minutes.We've segued into phones too much.  If nothing else, the relevance may be that tablets have complications due to DataPlan pricing and carrier availability as well.Here in Houston, my AT&T phones are just as good as Verizon.  Out on the east coast, all I hear is complaining about AT&T. But I've had no trouble when I've been out that way.  I suspect it is cell network density vs. population density.  Houston is 5 million people sprawled out over 4 counties or so, so the carriers have saturated the area with towers.  NYC is like 5 million people packed into 4 blocks with 1 cell tower.</blockquote>

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