"Bundle plans are being pushed a lot by carriers because they're moneymakers," said John Breyault, research director of the nonprofit Telecommunications Research and Action Center in Washington.
If you have no bundled plan, each text sent or received can cost you as much as 20 cents.
Let me impart my hard-earned knowledge and suggest that anyone considering a bundled plan ask these questions: Are taxes included, or is there a flat rate?
McLeodUSA Inc. said yesterday that it would offer wireless service through a wholesale deal with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., allowing it to compete with rivals offering local, long-distance and wireless service in a bundled plan.
Since the IMF's managing director, Christine Lagarde, appears to have accepted Greece's end-of-June payment bundling plan, the next major deadline is June 30.
At the same time, he lobbied antitrust regulators against Microsoft's bundling plans and courted Microsoft's bitter rival in the Web-browser market, Netscape.
He said that this number was increasing because 69 percent of Sprint's customers now owned smartphones, and they were paying for bundled plans, which include phone calls, text messages and data in one package.
Similar delegations have preceded past visits by top Chinese leaders to Washington and have focused on bundling planned purchases of Boeing jets, American grain and other exports into multibillion-dollar contracts that can be signed at elaborate ceremonies.
In other respects, too, the Wi-Fi business may well go the way of other telecommunications services, said Ms. Wiggins of the Yankee Group, in that it could become dominated by telecommunications companies that already sell cellular, Internet and landline phone services in bundled plans.
