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[AstroNut325]

I pay $120 for 4 lines. 1000 minutes, unlimited messaging, and 2 gigs of data on 2 lines, and 250MB on the other two lines (for my parents, they don't use much internet beyond weather and maps).

I can't even get remotely close to this on any other carrier in the US.

 

[Davidion]

I pay $120 for 4 lines. 1000 minutes, unlimited messaging, and 2 gigs of data on 2 lines, and 250MB on the other two lines (for my parents, they don't use much internet beyond weather and maps).

I can't even get remotely close to this on any other carrier in the US.

I'm in a similar boat, except mine is 4 lines, data on one line, 1k mins and unlimited messaging, plus subsidized payment for my S3 ($20), all together for $110. There is a corporate discount of 10%, I think?

If I wasn't paying additional for my phone, all of that would cost me $90.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

As for T-Mobile, no clue why they never got their shit together and got the iPhone. Major black eye for them.

This. This is the thing that has pretty much turned them into a dead man walking. No idea how they could be so stupid and still not have the iPhone six years later in 2013. They reasons why don't even matter after six years. Literally every carrier in the USA, bigger or smaller, has it except T-Mobile. You cannot be one of the "Big 4" any more after that. That's such a stupid move, it's turned the big 4 into the big 3. And yeah yeah, different frequencies/failed buyout/blah blah blah. SIX YEARS. Still no iPhone. It's inexcusable.

 

[Killing_Joke]

I.don't know about where you live but here in Orlando, Metro is HUGE! I don't know anyone who has tmobile besides myself and for good reason. Contracts suck ass.

I meant business wise. Cheap plans probably do more harm then good.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Everyone should care about telecoms providing better competition…

I don't care about competition. I care about results. If you believe competition is a means to achieve better results, that's one thing, but to believe in competition blindly, that's another.

For instance, I don't see Origin, Battle.net, and all of these other publisher specific digital networks/services/programs helping the PC gaming community. I see them hurting it, becuase you end up with fragmentation and loss of convenience.

And Steam sales haven't gotten better or worse thtanks to "competition." They've just continued to exist and Valve has just continued expanding upon Steam and their games independent of any competition.

I guess competition makes sense if you believe there won't be collusion or price fixing or access restrictions (even implicitely) in any industry, and you think that companies won't do anything that benefits the user unless they're forced to or risk losing sales.

 

[Wafflecakes]

<3 Tmobile.

I shopped around a couple months ago as my contract was up and T mobile was cheaper than At&t/verizon by about 30$ a month and Sprint was about 10$ a month.

I have never had any major issues with my service so why switch?

 

[FinKL]

#Gamechanger

But I'm still confused how this is going to roll out. Nothing will probably happen for at least a year considering paperwork won't even begin until early 2013. Hopefully there's more solid info soon, would hate to buy an AT&T's GSM iPhone only to realize they switched it off for MetroPCS's CDMA

 

[clav]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-12/sprint-s-softbank-deal-seen-roiling-u-s-mobile-market.html

Softbank, based in Tokyo, plans to buy MetroPCS through Sprint, Nikkei reported yesterday.

Hm.