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Originally Posted by ajac
hmmm sprint still is making a profit and shouldn't use this an excuse to get more money if they cant afford the venture shouldn't have tried now their putting it on their customers backs because they cant afford to build this grand 4g market and 4g has always been paid for by the customer they just increased the price of it. The 10 dollar fee per month wouldn't be so bad if they had either A. not said 4g was giving more for free at CTIA and B if they made it optional if you wanna use 4g. They complaint it will be a data hog.. so are all smart phones. So take on a 10 dollar fee for every smart phone.
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Businesses need to turn a profit to stay in business, that's how things work. If you don't like it, then don't buy the phone. Simple, problem solved.
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Originally Posted by gTen
Saying Sprint is 18% profit margin is like saying
"Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches."
Lets look at it this way..take sprint default plan of 69.99..18% profit means the plan costs them $57.39..now they have boost mobile where the plan is $50 unlimited plan..are you saying they are purposely loosing 7$ per person a month?
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Yeah and why do you think they are the #3 carrier instead of the #1 carrier.
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Originally Posted by gTen
If by profit margin you mean per plan then don't forget sprint provides a lot of cheap plans for government and etc at bulk costs.
If by profit margin you mean as a whole..sprint management is HORRIBLE..not to mention they are on a buying streak this and last year and bought liek 3 prepaid providers, and a few affiliates and then the Clearwire thing....not to mention eating the loss of Nextel.
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Companies do not always turn a profit on every product they sell, they have some items that are sold at cost to attract business, and other that are sold at a higher margin to make a profit.
My point is that your plan is cheaper than ATT and Big V. So if you don't want to pay for the service, pick another phone, and live without 4G.