If you use Cingular and have not been screwed yet, you will be soon

[emmanuelle]

Weird about being charged for incoming text spam. Up here, nobody pays for incoming messages whatsover, just the ones sent.

And yes, it would be very easy to spam cell phones using an online sms client, like the one built into your icq/msn

[Linkster]

Ive used Cingular since day 1 - of course I do use the GSM - I pay for two phones with unlimited nationwide - never had a roaming charge in 4 years and Ive called around the country from all over the country
The text messaging costs me $4 a month for unlimited and incoming never had a charge - I also have bluetooth on it for free as well as web access - I can make my own ringtones and graphics from my own MP3s and jpgs , upload them anytime I want without buying a damned thing, and all together I think my bill monthly is around $75 for both phones - Ive never had a problem with signal/dropped calls and I live way out in the country. The only place I saw one of my phones not work was in one valley in Penn.
And most important is since I refuse to pay for MP3s at those ripoff music services like Itunes - I can use my phone as my MP3 player and use any of the MP3s I can fit on whatever memory card I install since it has the mini flash cards as well that hold Gigs of stuff
Should add - since any minutes I dont use roll over and I never use more than 4000 mins I always have some rollover (I think thats what the plan gives me)