Cingular Rate Plans probably won't get too much cheaper!
Ok, so members of this board have told me in the past that eventually Cingular will have some better priced plans that would make the migration from ATTWS worth it. (right now I'd lose about half of my minutes)
Well, with the new "merger" between Nextel and Sprint PCS, wireless analysts are saying different. These 3 major players will take advantage of this situation to charge what they really want to charge. So I wouldn't expect any Cingular plans with 1000 rollover, unl n&w, unl m2m for $39.99 any time soon as previoulsy speculated...
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Consumer activists say shrinking the number of national wireless service companies can only hurt consumers.
"We've seen in recent years that consumers are getting better and better deals," said...
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Well, with the new "merger" between Nextel and Sprint PCS, wireless analysts are saying different. These 3 major players will take advantage of this situation to charge what they really want to charge. So I wouldn't expect any Cingular plans with 1000 rollover, unl n&w, unl m2m for $39.99 any time soon as previoulsy speculated...
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Consumer activists say shrinking the number of national wireless service companies can only hurt consumers.
"We've seen in recent years that consumers are getting better and better deals," said...
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No they wont' change and why should they, let me tell you something and add this reall quickly, 39.99 local has 600 minutes, if you go over its 40 cents a minutes,with att you had a lose it or use it with your minutes, with cingular, you use 400 minutes of that 600, you just saved and banked 200 minutes ,take 200 X .40=$80.00, that you saved and have for next month, that you would not have with AWS,and you know unless your phone is strictly for emergency sometime down the road your gonna go over your minutes, with ATT, you pay overage, with cingular and rollover,you have your minutes banked and not pating overage.
The choice is this, stay with AWS, and pray you don't go over, and if you do then bitch about its gotta be aws's fault, or swi...
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The choice is this, stay with AWS, and pray you don't go over, and if you do then bitch about its gotta be aws's fault, or swi...
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No they wont' change and why should they, let me tell you something and add this reall quickly, 39.99 local has 600 minutes, if you go over its 40 cents a minutes,with att you had a lose it or use it with your minutes, with cingular, you use 400 minutes of that 600, you just saved and banked 200 minutes ,take 200 X .40=$80.00, that you saved and have for next month, that you would not have with AWS,and you know unless your phone is strictly for emergency sometime down the road your gonna go over your minutes, with ATT, you pay overage, with cingular and rollover,you have your minutes banked and not pating overage.
Region plans do not have rollover ☹️
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I agree, rollover is the best thing going right now. Even w/ Sprint's "fair and flexable" plan you are paying like 60 bucks for 400 mins and .10 for each addt'l min. What if you only go over once in a great while. You are still paying for something you don't use. Seems logical to me, but who am I?
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HEY HINDSIGHT IS REALLY GREAT WHEN YOU GOT A BILL THERE FOR $200.00 IN ADDITIONAL MIUNTES AIN'T IT??? 🤣 🤣
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so people paying for 600 minutes will be sweating about using 400 minutes.all rollover does is encourage people to buy more minutes per month than they need so Cingular charges for 600 minutes of use but only has to provide 400. It doesn't seem like much of a deal to me...
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So companies that don't offer rollover, the rest. Don't encourage people to buy more minutes per month. It's better to pay overage that to have surplus? That's what sounded like to me.
When I was w/ VZW and someone called in and was over mins for previous month and I did not offer larger plan I was marked off my QA.
Let's make sure you got it....
If you pay 49.99 for 600 min and use 500 w/ the rest, they are gone. The following month you use 700 you pay at least an extra 40 bucks
But if you pay 49.99 for 600 w/ Cingular and use 500 and the following month use 700, pay nothing.
If that doesn't make sense to you, you are in denial.
When I was w/ VZW and someone called in and was over mins for previous month and I did not offer larger plan I was marked off my QA.
Let's make sure you got it....
If you pay 49.99 for 600 min and use 500 w/ the rest, they are gone. The following month you use 700 you pay at least an extra 40 bucks
But if you pay 49.99 for 600 w/ Cingular and use 500 and the following month use 700, pay nothing.
If that doesn't make sense to you, you are in denial.
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if you accumulate enough rollover minutes then you can also lower your plan and save additional money. best deal going by far. people are in denial. i was in a tmobile store looking at phones. i could hear the rep selling a kid a phone and he asked does this plan have rollover. she replied: "no, those rollover minutes are a hoax into selling you a higher rate plan. i had to laugh , both tmobile and cingular has a family nattion plan that is 69.99 (well CINGAULAR would be with 2 lines) has 850 mintes. no diff in price and you get rollover with cingular. thats a better deal. ow is cingular charging more for this plan. i know other plns are diff but this one the avantage belongs to cingular.
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with aws, I could usually get a person 650 min on a 39.99 plan unltd nw and early eve, and I'd tell the customer, make the calls after 7 and you are good to go. Rollover seems a scam to get people paying for minutes that they are never going to use.
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Yeah and after giving them every possible bonus just to get that contract extension spiff, you send them into the store to upgrade their phone...then we dont get the spiff, AND we cant match what you just did in TDMA on GSM 😁
But on the Rollover note, here in Florida, for example, rollover was the Fruit of the Gods during and after the hurricanes when nobody had landline service, but had wireless service. Every other company had customers getting $300 bills (just to credit them away for nat'l disaster area), and yet Cingular customers were pigs rolling in the uprooted tree $#it.
That Rollover scenario can apply to any every day life scenario really: unexpected travels, moving, death in the family, etc etc etc.....Rollover is one th...
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But on the Rollover note, here in Florida, for example, rollover was the Fruit of the Gods during and after the hurricanes when nobody had landline service, but had wireless service. Every other company had customers getting $300 bills (just to credit them away for nat'l disaster area), and yet Cingular customers were pigs rolling in the uprooted tree $#it.
That Rollover scenario can apply to any every day life scenario really: unexpected travels, moving, death in the family, etc etc etc.....Rollover is one th...
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I would either order the phones myself, or send the customer to NBO. I didn't bother with extending the contract, and if I could get away with the changes without extending the contract I would.I got wicked roasted by Team leads when I was customer care for not renewing people, but I am not a sales rep.
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You are right about unexpected travel--illness/death, or sickness...that's how I got stuck with a $400 bill for overages with Verizon! That was just because I of INCOMING calls I received on my daytime minutes. ☹️
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What are you talking about? AGENT, you always spout stuff out here with no factual detail just to prove a point! If I'm not mistakened, and according to Cingular.com, the 600 for $39.99 Regional is NOT A ROLLOVER PLAN!!! The Nation 450 Rollover is $39.99.
And once again, you've missed the point of my original thread. (read before you type..I was not starting an ATT vs Cing rate debate!) I was just saying, with less competition in any industry, there are less competitive rates. Traditionally, rates or prices increase. My point was, its not farfetched to consider that a customer may get less than even 450 rollover for $39.99 in the future. Prices may go up! If there are only three MAJOR players, Verizon, Cingular, Sprint/Nextel, these comp...
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And once again, you've missed the point of my original thread. (read before you type..I was not starting an ATT vs Cing rate debate!) I was just saying, with less competition in any industry, there are less competitive rates. Traditionally, rates or prices increase. My point was, its not farfetched to consider that a customer may get less than even 450 rollover for $39.99 in the future. Prices may go up! If there are only three MAJOR players, Verizon, Cingular, Sprint/Nextel, these comp...
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I was wondering if anyone else thought as I did, that these people were not addressing the original post. Pure econ. the prices probably will go up and the service packages will probably go down....
Some people just talk to hear themselves talk.
Some people just talk to hear themselves talk.
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With the infrastructure build up all companies are retracting excessive offers to bump up and align customer to a profitable point and not just an operating customer.
And...NO...I don't think there will be better deals out there with less competition.
And...NO...I don't think there will be better deals out there with less competition.
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