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Originally Posted by gullzway
Ok I see your point of view on this!
Let me ask you a question. If you go out and buy a New 6 Core PC with all the latest and greatest and Your Internet provider tells you it's gonna cost you $20/month more for internet service because you have a better Computer now, You would be perfectly fine with That?
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if you had dialup service before then yes. i believe the issue is that the bandwidth that people will use with the newer phones wasn't priced into the older plans. picture mail used to be one megapixel at best. now the pictures are being emailed that are 5 - 8 mp and people stream music via pandora or slacker and watch youtube or slingbox a movie. these benefits were not priced into the old plans. remember, in business, value is what drives price, not only cost. if sprint wants to move people to the new plans by making the new handsets require them, why not? the plans are still lower priced than the competition.
sprints issue with losing customers is from them selling $9.99 add a line plans. i had 5 lines for 2 people because it was cheaper to open a new line so we could get a new phones before the 24 month upgrade. by rotating the lines, i was saving a lot more than the $10 per month was costing me and I would ESN swap lines to keep my # on the newest phone. now at $20, it takes away the benefit of doing this and i have cancelled 3 of the 5 lines. sorry sprint
i know i was not the only person doing this.