| bring on the price regulation sorry to bring on the devils advocate postition here, but:
sometimes companies have to be TOLD what to charge rather than letting the DUOPOLY market work-- because apparent you the public are too stupid to stop paying these higher prices! |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by tmc8080:sorry to bring on the devils advocate postition here, but:
sometimes companies have to be TOLD what to charge rather than letting the DUOPOLY market work-- because apparent you the public are too stupid to stop paying these higher prices!
too stupid? pullllease. hard to do when rape / gouge is standard operating policy for all these wireless crooks.
FWIW my phone doesn't do anything besides make/receive phone calls. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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Meh, I'd go for not-regulation. With regulation, Verizon's recent double-data promotion on LTE phones probably wouldn't be doable. $80 for a 20GB data plan isn't great (Millenicom, also available on the free market, sells 20GB of Verizon 3G for $60) but it's not $10 per GB either. |
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said by dvd536:said by tmc8080:sorry to bring on the devils advocate postition here, but:
sometimes companies have to be TOLD what to charge rather than letting the DUOPOLY market work-- because apparent you the public are too stupid to stop paying these higher prices!
too stupid? pullllease. hard to do when rape / gouge is standard operating policy for all these wireless crooks. FWIW my phone doesn't do anything besides make/receive phone calls. $7/month prepaid tracfone works best (~$20 for 3 mos), plus carrying an android tablet around for free wifi calls (go google!). compare that with $200+ for a tablet/phone plus a data plan which is by the byte usage, plus so-called unlimited (which in reality is 3k minutes), and text which you pay extra for-- either blocks or unlimited. All this can run $80+ on a post paid account, with the average running $120 - $160 per phone and still not have unlimited data. More often than not, a prepaid service is CHEAPER than post paid. If you must keep a specific number get a dirt cheap voip service like OOMA for (AT MOST* $13) a year.
The still little known secret is that you can still carry around a cell phone for emergencies w/o service to call 911-- so a slightly used tablet phone is all you need espeically in a city where wifi bleeds everywhere. Maybe when more people "GO CHEAP" and cancel their cellphone plans in major metro markets they'll actually consider lowering the prices there.. |
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