Comments on: AT&T, Verizon Price Cuts: Change Plans, Get a Lower Rate

By: BJ DeHut

BJ DeHut — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:32:23 +0000

Hey Nickel, my name is BJ DeHut and I am representing Sprint as your SprintCareGuide. It is true that AT&T and Verizon dropped their prices on their plans; however, they are only referring to their unlimited minutes plans, not taking into count the prices of texting, data, and their other charges. Sprintâ€™s unlimited plan refer to not only minutes, but any other potential phone usage, allowing the user to pay one unlimited plan as opposed to a culmination of plans that AT&T and Verizon are selling. If you want to read more about how these price plans break down: http://www.billshrink.com/blog.....omparison/

By: Pat Yoe

Pat Yoe — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:26:58 +0000

I have Straight Talk Unlimited on the Verizon network. Bought it at Walmart and it’s an amazing deal. The Samsung Finesse is a very cool smartphone and paying only $45 a month for unlimited everything is the best deal going! Who needs an iPhone? LOL!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:52:19 +0000

I have the SERO Plan with Sprint. $30 for 500 Minutes, Unlimited Text and Data. It’s hard to beat. The down side is Sprint is limiting some of the new Android and Web OS phones only to customers with the Simply Everything Plan.

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:24:00 +0000

I’d love it if Sprint followed suit. My gf and I are on the multi-phone plan and we opted not to get the unlimited everything plan to save about $10-$20/month. We would switch in a minute if they changed this. We are currently charged per kb on data usage and have a limited number of text/pic messages.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:37:45 +0000

Yes, T-Mobile, get in there and compete or I will be heading to Verizon when my contract’s up.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:59:43 +0000

T-Mobile where are you? Go go go!

By: Nickel

Nickel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:38:00 +0000

For existing customers, there is no motivation for the companies to make this change automatically. It’s in their best interest to keep charging existing customers the higher rate while using the lower rate to bring in new customers.

By: BG

BG — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:35:05 +0000

I don’t have an ‘unlimited minutes’ plan, so this doesn’t apply to me. But you’d think that these companies (or at least one) would automatically enroll their customers at the cheaper rate.

Why does it take some action on the customer’s part? Unless there are some other ‘gotchas’ that you get hit with if you “change your plan”.