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by papul1993 4005 days ago
Is unlimited voice really that necessary? I see a lot of plans in European countries and US that mostly give unlimited calls for those amounts of money. And who uses SMS anyway when you have Whatsapp, Hangouts, iMessage, FB Messenger etc.
2 comments

Good question, I guess there are still people that talk to each other, but I believe the unlimited sms/voice is just a sales pitch for the plan. They don't really expect you to use it.

In my current plan I have 5000 free SMS per month. That's just silly, I'm not sure if I have even sent that many SMS in total since I got my first GSM phone in the early 90s. :)

But as long as the price for the data plan is good, I don't really care what else they tack on to it.

I use SMS precisely because everyone has WhatsApp, Hangouts, iMessage, etc. It's the only common denominator.