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Article #331Re: NEWS: US edges towards mobile antitrust case
From: Bill Z.
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:38
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:38
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John Blutarsky <bluto@faber.com> writes: > nobody@nospam.pacbell.net (Bill Z.) wrote in > news:87r5wpgx18.fsf@nospam.pacbell.net: > >> John Blutarsky <bluto@faber.com> writes: >> >>> nobody@nospam.pacbell.net (Bill Z.) wrote in >>> news:87prcatjk6.fsf@nospam.pacbell.net: >>> >>> >>> Actually, I don't think it is. There is a fairly wide spread of >>> offerings between carriers, with as much as a $50 spread in >>> "unlimited" offers between postpaid and prepaid phones. I noticed >>> that Boost offers unliminted texting for a dollar a day only for the >>> days where you text. >> >> So, someone who sends or receives 2 messages a day pays 50 cents per >> message. It's yet another gimmick. > > What about the first point? Specifically, the wide differnece in plan > prices among the carriers? How does that support your position? It's irrelvant. Usually your choice of carriers is limited by which ones have a decent signal strength where you live and work. Or you end up using the same service as the majority of the people you call (because of the higher number of "free" minutes when you call another of the same company's customer). Plus the "unlimited" offers are irrelevant when you won't come close to using the capacity it offers. A $50 spread in "unlimited" is hardly relevant when the price is too high to begin with for any of them. -- My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB
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