Cellular plan questions

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Hi,
I would like to get new cell phones. My analog cell phones is aging :)

I am choosing the right provider right now. I am in the seattle, wa area and I would like to have:

- unlimitted 2-way text messaging (if possible)

I am flexible in phone choices. the one I am interested in now is Nokia 8260 or Motorola timeport

I will be managing several servers shortly. There will be a monitoring features that will automatically notify me through cellular text messaging when my server/services is down or up.

I am expecting to receive tons of text messages as we will be monitoring quite a few services (i.e: web port, icmp ping, smtp port, ftp port, dns port) I might receive up to 50 messages easily per day.

Is there a provider with free text messaging service? The only one I know that my friend is currently using is Verizon. Howerver I went to verizon web page and they charge for text messages now :(

Any inputs appreciated.

eRr