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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 02 2013 @ 01:09 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 02 2013 @ 05:51 PM EDT |
This is also about people being bad at math and critical thinking. A couple of
years ago when I last replaced my phone, I could get a $300 credit on a handset
if I did a 2yr contract and paid an extra $20/month... effectively borrowing
that $300 for two years at about 60% interest (if my math is right). The
alternative was a cheaper month-to-month contract and pay for the handset out of
pocket.
Really doesn't take much thinking.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 03 2013 @ 12:24 AM EDT |
The plans are only deceptive to the ignorant.
As the consumer educates, they will find a way to save money.
Cellphone service is still an oligopoly with those oligopoly rents. I buy my
Nexus 4 from Google up front, but the minutes + data + text + prepaid plans from
T-Mobile offer a not very good choice. The other services are even more
expensive, and all of them suffer from marginal signal coverage in many areas.
Still, the TMobile $30 per month prepaid unlimited data plan (with 100 included
minutes/10cents per minute thereafter) seems to be saving me $25 per month and I
am not locked into them if I find a better plan. Plus the Nexus 4 phone is a
LOT faster than the old Droid2 from Verizon, and has a small enough bug count (I
have seen 2 in 4 months of use) that I am happy with the quality.
I'd love to see unbundled everything so I can by data separate from minutes from
different competitors.
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