 bencPremium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
 ·Charter
| reply to burgerwars
Re: Sprint 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. |
 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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