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Article #335Re: NEWS: US edges towards mobile antitrust case
From: SMS
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:26
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:26
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Bill Z. wrote: > It's irrelvant. Usually your choice of carriers is limited by which > ones have a decent signal strength where you live and work. I think that you must live in the San Francisco Bay Area! If you go to many other parts of the country you'll find that coverage quality is such that your choice of carriers isn't so limited. While it's true that Verizon is rated best in every metropolitan area in the U.S., the differences aren't as great on the east coast, the south, and in Texas as they are in the west. In the west, quite frankly, unless you're in some weird spot, or right next to a tower of Sprint, T-Mobile, or AT&T, you wouldn't want anything other than Verizon. > 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. It all depends on how clever you want to get and how much trouble you want to go through. In Alltel areas you can now get unlimited voice and text for $22.75/month, if you combine the right plan with Google Voice. If you have decent Sprint coverage, unlimited is $35/month plus taxes and fees. If you're not grandfathered in on some old plan, the best deal out there now for sub $35, is the 1500 min/1500 texts for $33. It likely doesn't matter about free M2M and free off-peak with 1500 minutes, unless you spend 25 hours a month on the phone.
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