Important detail: it's about "voice", not "[Google] Voice", though that's how it looks in the title. To me, at least. Basically, data plans are netting the cell companies more and more money, while voice plans are netting less and less, with the inevitable crossing-point somewhere in the near future (they're saying 2013, by just following the trendlines).
Huh? Any capitalization of 'voice' in a headline reads 'Google Voice' to you?
I read it like Groxx- because voice plan aren't worthless and still make big $ for the carriers. Since that reading the headlines as Voice Plans are worthless so obviously wrong, I mentally defaulted to the next meaning of Voice: Google Voice.
Important detail: it's about "voice", not "[Google] Voice", though that's how it looks in the title. To me, at least. Basically, data plans are netting the cell companies more and more money, while voice plans are netting less and less, with the inevitable crossing-point somewhere in the near future (they're saying 2013, by just following the trendlines).
Huh? Any capitalization of 'voice' in a headline reads 'Google Voice' to you?
Know of another product by the name "Voice", in use by as many people? And people always seem to be bi-polar with Google Voice, some saying it's the best thing since toast, some saying it's pointless and they hate it.
So basically AT&T is matching what Sprint already does. Meanwhile Sprint is busy raising its effective rates to match AT&T and Verizon. I love competition. Here is to hoping as tech marches on some decent Android phones trickle down to prepaid. I'd like off the contract bandwagon please.
Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, and Cricket have some reasonably good phones and some awesome plans.
So basically AT&T is matching what Sprint already does. Meanwhile Sprint is busy raising its effective rates to match AT&T and Verizon. I love competition. Here is to hoping as tech marches on some decent Android phones trickle down to prepaid. I'd like off the contract bandwagon please.
virgin mobile has an android phone and a $25/mo plan, but still not prepaid :(
Uh, has anybody here ever racked up $60 worth of mobile calls in a single month? That pretty much describes my pay-as-you-go fees for an entire year . So, sure, if you pay them for more phone calls than you could ever possibly make, they'll let you make as many phone calls as you like. This reads less like news and more like a placement by whichever carrier is offering this plan.
There was a case in Vancouver where Fido promoted unlimited calls. But in the fine print it said maximum 5000 minutes per month. A guy actually went over that, and he started getting additional charges. He didn't understand it of course, because he had purchased the unlimited package. All the other carriers jumped on the opportunity to say, "when we say unlimited, we mean unlimited." Of course, their unlimited was cl…
I just checked and I've spent almost exactly $60 on my pay-as-you go phone since mid-October. That comes to about $15 a month. I make no effort whatsoever to reduce my phone usage, other than the fact that I don't enjoy talking on the phone at all. I use AT&T, so I pay $1 a day when I use the phone and then it's 10 cents a minute for calls outside of the network. As it turns out, most of the people I talk to have iPhones, so I'm not getting charged the 10 cents per minute. I also buy the minimum amount of text messages every month (200 for $5). I've never used all of them and they roll over each month, so my current balance of text messages is about 475. This may not be for everyone, but it's working for me. My phone is also the 'dumbest' phone I could find. Cuique suum.