Why is my maximum group text limit only 10 recipients?

Sad to see that AT&T continues to ignore their customer base, especially on an issue that could save lives - Firefighters, EMT, School Administrators, etc. - but they placate the masses with limited / unlimited streaming and "Free Streaming" if you have their crappy satellite service.

AT&T - you're not doing your investors any favor by torquing off your loyal customers.  Wake up and smell the toast . . . It's burning!

The ATT Solution to this issue is absolutely ridiculous. That's not a solution, it's a terrible workaround that allows ATT to avoid the issue.

I've been struggling with this issue for 2 years and finally stumbled on the root cause. ATT has been silently modifying my communications and preventing me from responding to 3 out of 13 members of our team. Ridiculous! I'm totally embarrassed and very thankful it has not been life/death situations. 

I'm required to quickly communicate with a small team of 13 people and for years our responses to group messages are spanned into smaller threads that omit several others team members. We've all been confused, but we struggled along. A few of us use ATT and it never dawned on us that ATT was the root cause. At this point I'm livid and don't see any other choice but to switch carriers. I will also notify the other users in our group about ATT's policy and recommend we all switch to a different carrier. 

I was raised on ATT phone service and have used only ATT (or Bell Telephone) for 64 years. It's sad, but it's time for a change. 

Wow. Just experienced this for the first time on a group outing last week. I thought I was going crazy. It broke the 13 person group text into numerous 10 person group texts. I couldn't communicate with any of them and received a flood of separate texts. I had to mute all the text strings. Only I and one other AT&T customer had the issue. No one else. Contrary to what David606 is saying...this is broken, we're telling you it's broken. and looking at this thread, it seems they're not going to fix it. I've had issues with AT&T since college and have only kept them because I was grandfathered into their data plan. As soon as I see a favorable unlimited data plan come up with another carrier I'm hopping ship...which upon looking it seems Verizon now has one comparable in price...maybe now I can actually hotspot my phone too. Will switch when the iPhone 8 drops.

I haven't had this issue in a long time because most of my close friends now use GroupMe (which started out of necessity for our fantasy football league). Now a huge thread has started with my mountain biking friends and I'm getting crushed by separate threads and can't communicate with the group. I've been with AT&T over 20 years and have always been a fan, but this one issue is going to send me to Verizon to join my wife's plan. Sorry, AT&T—this seems very short-sighted of you.

As mentioned in post 95, Groupme works beautifully without requiring others also have the app.  It works on computers and phones.  

All carriers have a group message limit.