wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK Reviews:
 ·Cox HSI
 ·T-Mobile US
| reply to elray
Re: Bad Idea Just as a point of fact, my at&t plan includes 150 more minutes a month at the same price point I have now. Additionally, the price of data has increased by $10 in the last five years.
And just FWIW, I'm not on contract and haven't been since 2004. I don't buy phones from at&t, I buy unlocked phones, thanks, so don't start in with the ad hominems.
The only thing competition has done recently is get us incredibly expensive unlimited voice plans. For my usage patterns, unlimited m2m and n&w minutes are plenty.
Until about 2004, there was enough competition in the market to drive rates ever lower. In 1998 I was paying $80 or $90 a month for 400 minutes with no mobile to mobile or night and weekend minutes good anywhere in the US. (not long prior to that, there wasn't such a thing as free roaming nationwide)
By 2001, I was up to 550 minutes for $70 a month. In 2004, I started paying $70 a month but also got 850 minutes, unlimited mobile to mobile, unlimited nights and weekends, and a second line.
Today I could get fewer minutes for the same money, but with no added benefits. Perhaps that's because there are fewer competitors than there once were. I wouldn't know, I'm not an economist.
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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word.  |
