 thegeekPremium
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Re: price vs data amount If you have even the slightest idea that you will somehow save money with a shared data plan then you are delusional and retarded. They're not about to make less money. If anything they'l make more as there will still be some sort of per-device fee then the actual data plan fee which will be very low cap forcing everyone into high cap plans with high overages. |
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Camden, TN | said by thegeek:If you have even the slightest idea that you will somehow save money with a shared data plan then you are delusional and retarded. They're not about to make less money. If anything they'l make more as there will still be some sort of per-device fee then the actual data plan fee which will be very low cap forcing everyone into high cap plans with high overages.
Really? Well let's see they never used to have shared texting plans. No you can get unlimited texting for a family for $30. Isn't that LESS money than the $10 per person for a mere 500 texts plans they had before? |
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 HallPremium,MVM
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kudos:2 | said by BF69: Really? Well let's see they never used to have shared texting plans. No you can get unlimited texting for a family for $30. Isn't that LESS money than the $10 per person for a mere 500 texts plans they had before? I also don't see VZW coming out with lower-cost plans with equal, not to mention "more", features ! They created new plans a couple of years ago that they claimed now "included" text plans, for example. Thing is, the new plan was $10 more per month. Unlimited text plans were .... $10/month. Even their reps didn't grasp it until I had them pretend to upgrade me and tell me the new monthly cost. They pushed those plans though, calling my previous generation plan (not a plan that was multiple generations old) "obsolete". |
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by Hall:said by BF69: Really? Well let's see they never used to have shared texting plans. No you can get unlimited texting for a family for $30. Isn't that LESS money than the $10 per person for a mere 500 texts plans they had before? I also don't see VZW coming out with lower-cost plans with equal, not to mention "more", features ! They created new plans a couple of years ago that they claimed now "included" text plans, for example. Thing is, the new plan was $10 more per month. Unlimited text plans were .... $10/month. Even their reps didn't grasp it until I had them pretend to upgrade me and tell me the new monthly cost. They pushed those plans though, calling my previous generation plan (not a plan that was multiple generations old) "obsolete". What are you talking about? A $30 unlimited family texting plan IS FAR better than four $10 texting plans that had a 500 text limit with 10 cents per text overages. |
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| Sure it is, but once you factor in the increase in base price of the family plan for no extra minutes it's not a savings. The vast majority of customers that switched to that new texting plan did so at the time they also had to sign a new 2 year contract and were forced into the new higher priced plans. |
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by thegeek:Sure it is, but once you factor in the increase in base price of the family plan for no extra minutes it's not a savings. The vast majority of customers that switched to that new texting plan did so at the time they also had to sign a new 2 year contract and were forced into the new higher priced plans.
Prices remained the same so I'm not sure what you are talking about. |
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