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Tree of United States wireless providers

*Wireless Industry Countdown*

 Breaking News: T-mobile's MyFaves are spreading from just phone calls, to text, video, and picture messages too. This new plan will be implemented later this year. More details to come.

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N = Unlimited Free Nighttime Minutes

W = Unlimited Free Weekend Minutes Included

7N = Nights starting at 7

600 N/W = 600 minutes a month, plus unlimited night and weekend minutes

Mobile to Mobile included in all plans listed below

Individual Plans

*T-mobile prices are for regular plans. MyFaves plans have different pricing

All family plans come with 2 lines included, and it is $9.99 to add lines. They also come with Unlimited Night, Weekend, and Mobile to Mobile unless specified.

Family Plans

*Sprint nights start at 7:00 PM. While this is a tempting offer, keep in mind the number of anytime minutes, coverage, and customer service ratings are being compensated for by the early nights.

T-mobile offers MyFaves. The pricing is the same as listed in the charts above, but $10 more a month. With MyFaves, you can go online, or use your phone, and put in any 5 numbers each month (cell phone, land line, internet phone. As long as it is in the U.S. it doesn't matter) to call for free, unlimited. When you call the 5 numbers, you do not use any of your minutes. You can change the numbers once every calender month. 

List of United States Cell Phone carriers and number of users

Text Messaging (Single plans)

Due to the fact that there are so many different data and text messaging plans, a table is not possible. I will however lay them out for you below:. All messages listed below include Text, Picture, Video, and Sound messages unless otherwise specified.

$Price paid per month - What you get for the price

T-mobile:

$4.99 - Any 400 messages

$9.99 - Any 1000 messages

$14.99 - UNLIMITED messages

Verizon:

$10 - Unlimited messaging to/from Verizon users, and 500 other messages

$15 - Unlimited messaging to/from Verizon users, and 1500 other messages

$20 - Unlimited messaging to/from Verizon users, and 5000 other messages

Cingular/At&t:

$4.99 - 200 messages

$9.99 - Unlimited messaging to/from Cingular/At&t users, and 200 other messages

$19.99 - 3000 messages

$24.99 - Unlimited messaging to/from Cingular/At&t users, and 3000 other messages

Sprint:

$5 - 300 SMS (Text only) messages

$10 - Unlimited SMS (Text only) messages

T-mobile:

$19.95 - Unlimited messaging (any type) for all lines of the plan. This is good weather you have 2, 3, 4 and even more, lines on the plan. You pay $19.95 a month, and have fully unlimited messaging on all lines, no matter how many.

Verizon:

$10 - Unlimited messaging to/from Verizon users, and 500 other messages

$15 - Unlimited messaging to/from Verizon users, and 1500 other messages

$20 - Unlimited messaging to/from Verizon users, and 5000 other messages

All of these Verizon plans only work for one phone. If you want 1500 messages on two different phones, you will pay $30 ($15+$15) a month for that. These are the same prices for the individual plans.

Cingular:

$4.99 - 200 messages

$9.99 - Unlimited messaging to/from Cingular/At&t users, and 200 other messages

$19.99 - 3000 messages

$24.99 - Unlimited messaging to/from Cingular/At&t users, and 3000 other messages

Like Verizon, all these plans only work for one phone. If you want 3000 messages on two phones, on a family plan, you will pay $40 ($19.99+$19.99) a month for this. These are the same prices for the individual plans.

Sprint:

$20 - Unlimited SMS (Text only) message for all lines on the plan.