T-Mobile has cut the price by a lot recently. The new family match policy gives a discount to any family plan where all the lines have the same data plan. 15GB 2 lines = $130 at AT&T, 18GB (6GB x 3 lines) = $120 @ T-Mobile.
You are the one who doesn't understand how business works. As companies invest money into infrastructure they are able to offer products/services at a lower cost. This is the economics of scale 101. By your logic we should all be paying more than 23,334 for a computer (modern Apple Lisa price) because Intel and their foundries have invested billions (trillions?) of dollars.
I gave some fact-based thoughts about what I see happening with the US wireless industry. What's that? Those thoughts don't apply to computers, SSD, Big Macs, or Telsas? You don't say...
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Obviously they want to recoup infrastructure costs however the AT&T and Verizon are also some of the most greedy corporations in America and they love nickle and dime every cent they can out of their customers.I gave some fact-based thoughts about what I see happening with the US wireless industry. What's that? Those thoughts don't apply to computers, SSD, Big Macs, or Telsas? You don't say...
Obviously your thought quoted above is not what's happening in the US wireless industry today.
So if they're not lowering their rates because they want to recoup the billions that they invested for the LTE infrastructure upgrades, then what is your thought for why the rates haven't lowered?
You'd think a company that loves to nickel and dime every cent out of their customers wouldn't wait eight/nine years before increasing the price of a plan for the first time. That's such an obvious miss for a greedy company, no?
They have certainly had increases in that but I don't think it was each year, and since it's a one time free (and not even for everyone especially with AT&T) it's quite a ways off from an increase in price of a monthly service.
nope each year mate. this year was 45, last year was 40.... I think it was 25 dollar or so when i first joined.
That's about 3 increases while unlimited stayed the same price for quite a few more years than that. So certainly not each year.
the price didn't stay the same. The original iPhone data plan was $25 and included some sms. The price was increased to $30 for the iPhone 3G. Then eventually the unlimited plan was removed and replaced with a 3GB plan at the same price point; so that is similar to a price increase but only for new customers.
So basically the $30 price for those who had it and stayed with the plan has remained the same for quite a few years now until it was just increased.
Sure, but the full context is we couldn't add any more unlimited lines either, we had our upgrade fees increased each year and we unable to do tethering/mobile hotspot.
But the upgrade pricing still didn't go up every year that the unlimited pricing had stayed the same. And, more of a side point, there's also the fact that the increase of the unlimited line pricing is per month vs upgrade pricing which is one time per upgrade (with many getting it waived too or not having it applied because of FAN on their account).
Years ago I found my unlimited plan to be too restrictive in the voice area. I switched to a mobility plan and could not be happier. I buy my phones using NEXT.
But it didn't go up every year compared to the period that the unlimited had stayed the same in price (which is the context all of this was brought up in).
Right now T-Mobile is offering 2 lines of unlimited for 140 + 40 for each extra line. So 2 lines is still $70 and more is cheaper.
The context is pretty clear, and the point is that there were no yearly increases in the upgrade price. If you limit it to some small set of a few particular years perhaps you can say that, but that's neither here nor there since we aren't taking about a couple of particular years, but overall (or at the very least the span of years that the unlimited pricing has remained the same).
T-Mobile's unlimited costs the same as AT&T's new unlimited plan except it doesn't require DirecTV.
