Group text limit - AT&T PLEASE REMOVE

This is definitely a problem.  I will revisit this when it comes time tor renew my contract withAT&T.

That is not a solution.  It is the reason given and not a very good one.  I do group tests to near 60+ people for our church prayer chain.  The limitation requires me to send out 6 group tests to get one message out to all the people on the prayer chain.  When my contract is up, I will consider another carrier for that reason.

as ridiculous and annoying the group text limitation is, I found that the app Whatsapp is a much better alternative for group texting.  Unlimited groups can be created with 100 people in each group.  Check it out https://www.whatsapp.com/

It's merely not possible to have some kind of "opt-in" where certain users are willing to open themselves up to potential spam by opting for a high group limit. 10 is a static figure that will never change. SMS is not meant for wide communication, e-mail is. SMS is a throwaway service for quick instant messages to a single person or small handful, but not a huge group. Too many issues can arise such as the SMSC getting flooded, intercarrier failures, etc. SMS is a tech from the 1990s. It's limited. It's archaic. This is why Apple has created iMessage and why Google has Hangouts on every new Android. They don't rely on MMS/SMS but simply need data connection.

Oh, I suspect many T-Mobile customers experience disappointment; no carrier is perfect. For example, 2G speeds once you've used your base data plan. Or limited network coverage. 

@David606 You make it sound like 10 is a technological limit.  It is not.  Other carriers allow more.  It is a limit that AT&T has chosen to set.  "SMS is a tech from the 1990s.  It's limited.  It's archaic"  Then why do you (and every other major carrier) still support it instead of coming together to develop something less archaic?  "SMS is not meant for wide communication, email is."  Maybe in the archaic 1990s that was the case because not everyone had SMS.  SMS IS meant for "near instant" communication while email is not.  As I said above, I volunteer coach multiple children's sports teams and they always have 10-20 members and some kids' parents both want a notification so I still end up with 21+ numbers to text, i.e. 3 groups.  If there is a last minute change or cancellation due to weather or something else then email is not fast enough because although it is delivered almost as quickly, not everyone sits in front of their computer all day, not everyone has a smart phone where they can get email, and not everyone with a smartphone chooses to burn through their data plan by getting email on it.

Stop trying to make "technical" excuses and just admit that rather than trying to accomodate a REASONABLE request from their customers, AT&T wants to force people to use a third party app that will make them use more data and hopefully force them to switch to a more expensive rate plan, since SMS doesn't count against the data allocation.

One more thing, the SPIM (IM SPAM) excuse doesn't cut it either because spimmers don't use their phone to send spim.  The 3-4 spims I have received in the 10+ years I have used texting were NEVER group messages, they were always individual messages sent by an automated process.

So are the other networks better equipped because they don't seem to have any problems with much higher limits.  Some as high as 100, and no complaints about spam or dropped texts.