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Originally Posted by fcastro
This is turning into a mass flaming. If you feel that paying 2/3 more the cost of your current SERO plan makes sense (10+10) then knock yourself out. I'll stick to my slow TP2 and hope that the roms that continue coming out address the mass slowness windoze mobile is all about. Sprint basically is telling us SERO users that we can have the latest toys and OS'es but we are going to have to give up our great rates in the process. Again this a dollar and cents game, $35 bucks to $55 bucks...YOU BE THE JUDGE.
PS Prices WILL NOT always go up! The more and more smart phones come to market, eventually that should put downward pressure on pricing and plans. 3rd and 4th tier carriers (sprint and tmobile) are pricing way below at&t and verizon. Virgin and Metro and also aggressively pricing.
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Yea... and neither one of those carriers have a network even half the size of at&t or Verizon. There's a reason that you have to pay more because they cover more real estate, have more towers, more maintenance and regardless of how much cheaper the other networks are Verizon still has more customers than either of them. That alone proves that for many people it is NOT all about the price. It's no secret that Verizon has the best coverage and people are willing to pay to get it.
It's easy for carriers like Sprint, tmobile, Virgin and Metro to price less when they cover less real estate. Metro is $40 unlimited here in GA but when you leave the Atlanta Metropolitan area the service goes from ok to being a joke. Sprint here is pretty good.. but there are spots that if it werent for being able to roam on Verizon you would have no coverage.
It's not just as simple as saying "oh well yea we're going to lower our prices." These other companies have NO choice because if their prices were the same as Verizon with less coverage... they wouldnt have any customers. Verizon actually has cell trucks that they send to sports events to sit outside of the stadium so people can make calls. I've seen this firsthand about 10 times and maybe once from Sprint. They also ride around LOOKING for dead spots just to build a tower in that area. That's what paying the high Verizon bill gets you.
And when Metro builds out their LTE, we'll see how long those cheap unlimited plans last.