A New Carrier Question
Hey I have an idea just tell me what you all think. If I am currently with cingular hence the post on the cingular website. But like many I get hit with a pretty good size of overages every month. Now, tell me what you all think about this.
If I had a carrier that offered many plans, for the sake of this example 4. Now my plan would include something like:
monthly anytime Night/wk Mobile to
cost Minutes Minutes Moobile
39.99 400 Unlim Unlim
59.99 800 Unlim Unlim
79.99 1200 Unlim Unlim
99.99 1900 Unlim Unlim
Now here is the catch unlike other carriers that charge you overages, this plan "flex" to the closest plan. So everyone starts at the 39.99 unless the...
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If I had a carrier that offered many plans, for the sake of this example 4. Now my plan would include something like:
monthly anytime Night/wk Mobile to
cost Minutes Minutes Moobile
39.99 400 Unlim Unlim
59.99 800 Unlim Unlim
79.99 1200 Unlim Unlim
99.99 1900 Unlim Unlim
Now here is the catch unlike other carriers that charge you overages, this plan "flex" to the closest plan. So everyone starts at the 39.99 unless the...
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From a business side, this is really bad. They need to know how much income to expect and this just makes it unpredictable for them.
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I see what your saying so forcasting would be diffacult. Wouldnt a company know after an expected term lets say a year what trend to use?
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No not actually. This plan you start every month a rate that is the cheapest. When you end the month where you at determins how much you pay. Its not about the extra 50 mins for $5 dollars or anything else. If you start at the cheapest and end at a $79 plan, thats what you pay not 10c a min+ $5 for every 50, and all that hastle. Do you see a difference?
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Cingular has roll over. its practically the same thing without charging for a higher plan. if you regularly fall into a certain minute range you can acrue rollover. if you go over your plan you use rollover. no extra charge 🙂 .
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I would recommend you just change your cingy plan, probably save you money in the long run w/o switching paying act fee's new phones, etc...
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Question..what would happen if the customer talks for say 2500 minutes?? hrm..
Sprint's Fair and Flexable is similar and makes a bit more sense..plus..if you end up talking more often on one of the higher up plans for a few months...they call and offer to bump you up to it.
Sides..I understand many carriers top off their plans at some set amount of minutes for like $200..Sprint--$200 gets you completely unlimited usage.
Sprint's Fair and Flexable is similar and makes a bit more sense..plus..if you end up talking more often on one of the higher up plans for a few months...they call and offer to bump you up to it.
Sides..I understand many carriers top off their plans at some set amount of minutes for like $200..Sprint--$200 gets you completely unlimited usage.
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You can thank me for Sprint's plan autoupgrade policy. 😉
Due to some unusual personal business a few years ago, I ran up extra minutes to the tune of a hundreds of dollars without realizing it. 😲 I rarely used my phone otherwise. I pleaded with Sprint to rebill this differently somehow, but no luck. 😢
A couple months later, they introduced Fair and Flexible. 😕
Due to some unusual personal business a few years ago, I ran up extra minutes to the tune of a hundreds of dollars without realizing it. 😲 I rarely used my phone otherwise. I pleaded with Sprint to rebill this differently somehow, but no luck. 😢
A couple months later, they introduced Fair and Flexible. 😕
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This is crazy 🤣 I bet this would make our billing system crash every other hour 🤣 Could you imagine? all the changing will either make it impossible for you to keep track your calling plan, minutes... and us to keep track of anything...
This would drive any company to the ground. No wonder why Sprint is doing so bad... 🤣
This would drive any company to the ground. No wonder why Sprint is doing so bad... 🤣
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So, if I read this correctly, if I went over my plan's minutes by 5 minutes, then i would have to pay $20 more for the next plan up as opposed to the $2.25 ($0.45 x 5) in overages with current carriers? Umm, I don't think i would like that. You would have to have a system in place to calculate if it would be cheaper to stay with the current plan and pay overage or to bump up to the next plan. That's just way to much work on a company's system to make sense.
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