Just imagine how happy AT&T's engineers would be if they were told they only had to worry about providing service to Arizona.
One can get 0.5% from Marcus by Goldman Sachs, and several credit unions offer more, however, whatever it is, it is more than nothing and it gives you flexibility in case of an emergency.
The rest of the world is pay per use, the disadvantage of it is that they can’t offer cellphones under contracts for that reason because Or under financing options, but my family still wishes they shared my plans because they spend more money refilling their pre paid cards than an actual plan a month.That would be nice, wouldn't it?
If you use a lot of data... then you should PAY for a lot of data.
And light users would have a tiny bill if they rarely use data outside the home or office away from WIFI.
I wonder what the average data-usage is? Though it seems like the heavy users would be subsidizing the light users in your scenario. There would still be people who are unhappy.
The point was that every AT&T (and for that matter almost every other U.S. carrier) plan covers the whole U.S. vs. smaller territories and lets me keep my phone number no matter where I move.
The AT&T engineers tend to stay local. Different story for the contract engineering firms that operators rely on. They're the ones traveling 1,000 miles or more to build out a market.
I will tell you this, it takes about 2-3 business months for all the new prices to take into effect, don’t get scared when they email you the CSS or the actual plan because it doesn’t include the discounts, your best bet is upgrading from the myat&t website or app which will show the discount and the plan after taxes and all promos eligible if that helps you out. Believe me I went from Plus to Extra and ended up with Elite and somehow my plan was cheaper with all the discounts set in place by $40usd to say the least.
I'll bet the bigger issue with covering a large area is it limits how many companies can do it realistically, limiting competition. And for home internet, there are local monopolies as a result too. Worst part is they provide crap service then use that as a reason to ask for subsidies.
T-Mobile coverage is bad in CA too. I think it's just bad everywhere. You get what you pay for.
Where? That's not the pricing I see when I search for Italian phone plans. Though it wouldn't surprise me if it were cheaper than here.
Eh, you just hold SPY and enjoy 10-36% YoY as long as you can afford to lose half of it if something goes wrong. 0.5% doesn't even come close to offsetting inflation.
You can use that to your advantage by asking how to cancel your service. They'll offer a better deal to keep you.
What does that have to do with contracts? Once the phone is paid off, you can sell it. I think even before.
how is it free? we moved to Comcast and it costs us 80.00 for both our phones with unlimited data. I can then afford to buy it and save a ton of money. its not free.
Wait, it didn't show "of Unlimited" before with this plan? Was it showing 100GB? I have an original grandfathered unlimited plan still and it has always shown "of Unlimited" on the meter but I was under the impression it de-prioritized at 22GB (although I have never witnessed it being de-prioritized). I have been contemplating switching to this new elite plan. Price wise it is similar to what I have now, but with taxes/fees I believe it will be slightly more expensive to switch.
No it didn't. It would always show "of 100 GB" being used, and also showed the amount used from the hotspot as well. Supposedly after going over 100 GB you could be throttled. I have never came close to that and I don't realistically seeing that happen since I am on WiFi majority of the time, but I suppose something could happen (me being on the road for a month) and using a ton of data. I think I stream more now when traveling since the Sirius XM app offers more channels than they do in my car, I have been finding myself doing that more and more on trips, so I could see my usage go up.
It does not have to offset inflation, as the price of the device is fixed and is not affected by inflation. Any no risk investment is free money.