| Sprint Sprint extended my plan for another two years after I ported a number to replace my current cellphone number. I only found out about it when I cancelled their service and ported the number elsewhere. Sprint added a $150 early cancellation penalty to my final phone bill. Only after arguing with them on the phone, did they reverse the charge.
Cellphone companies do anything to try to extend your plan. |
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 bencPremium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
 ·Charter
| said by burgerwars:Cellphone companies do anything to try to extend your plan. This is why we need to get rid of contracts (go mo-to-mo), and segregate the phones from the carriers (use any number of phones with a particular carrier).
Also...answer to phone subsidies: Short term loans. After all the cost to make back the subsidies have to be built into the monthly fees anyway. It would also provide additional flexibility of allowing a full subsidy at a higher monthly loan payment, or no subsidy at all and not needing to pay on a loan.
Unfortunately, this will be difficult given the current implementation of CDMA used by Verizon and Sprint (no RUIM cards, all phones are locked). However, I did hear that Verizon will be going GSM eventually leaving Sprint out in the cold. |
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 pogPremium
join:2004-06-03
Kihei, HI
 ·Hawaiian Telcom
| Here, a rep at Hawaiian Telcom told me I could go month to month no problem, even as new service... I would just miss out on the free/discounted phone. However, there is (was?) also a pay-as-you go plan with a phone for $30 plus 300 minutes @ 10 cents which are good for 60 days.
IOW, I could test the service out for $60, then use that phone and go with a month-to-month plan... no contract.
Seems attractive since the network is actually leased from both Sprint AND Verizon... I was told that I'd get service from whatever network was strongest.
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