the reason (Score 1)

is beacuse of people like me who have unlimited texting and use it alot so if we start abusing it (i send about 6000 texts a month *teenager*) someone has to pay for it, honestly i think the phone compnays need to get laid.... seriously a text message takes about 15kb your honestly trying to tell me it takes about 1.5-2 cents to send 1 kb ohh and i have a data plan on my phone 44 dollars a month, and i use about 600mb on that so lets see here 600,000 kb at 1.5 cents= ohh so 900,000 cents so its only 9000 dollars so your fine with a unlimtied plan but your bitching over a lazy 1.5 cent text oh and lets not forget the free ringtone commercals everyone falls for those and ohh wait theres a premium text rate, so the company can charge you for a permium text whats premium about it. honestly verizon needs to relax whats the fuss about ohh forgot to tell you,