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zen death robot posted:I jumped off Sprint last year because their network is loving awful. If you manage to get an LTE signal it's still like 3Mbit/sec. eh, suits my needs i guess you could say
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Puppy Galaxy posted:because it's not at all clear until the checkout process nor is it stated when you select your plan. they're all listed as $40 line access fees. 
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Oct 29, 2015 21:01
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As a Millennial I posted:i mean what i'm missing that's gonna screw me over. it's weird to me that at&t's pushing it so hard. but i'm bad at economics it's not a screw you over thing iirc, it's that previously the carriers would have to subsidize the phones and make it up by charging you extra now they can just get you to pay for the phone, and then they'll get a traded in phone in a year or two that they can sell for ~80% of the original price so basically the only difference is that the carrier's balance sheets have slightly lower expenses, which looks better for them
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Oct 29, 2015 21:02
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ah, carrier chat? tmobile ftw
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*kicks feet up on ikea desk* I like shasta. tmobile. hyundai. i play terran. problem? gently caress off.
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Oct 29, 2015 21:06
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PleasureKevin posted:welp apple is appealing the ebooks thing all the way up to the supreme court Good, the twisting of the law in that case to protect an actual monopsonist was disgusting.
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computer parts posted:it's not a screw you over thing iirc, it's that previously the carriers would have to subsidize the phones and make it up by charging you extra it seems to me that they left plan prices as is, but added the phone lease as an additional charge. For Verizon, sure you can still get a $60 plan like before, but now you pay $30/month for the phone instead of 199 up front, oh and also you have to pay for 100% of the phone before you can upgrade
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Endless Mike posted:more everything loyal is your service plan (which i guess they no longer offer to new customers). edge is/was (they don't seem to call it that anymore) the device installment plan. but sorry you're incapable of doing basic research since it's right on their website, even for non customers: you don't think that pricing structure is designed to be slightly confusing? i'm not saying it's impossible to understand but it seems overly convoluted
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Puppy Galaxy posted:you don't think that pricing structure is designed to be slightly confusing? slightly? sure. not "confusing as hell" as you put it before. it looks like they've simplified it even more though: current plans are a flat $20 line charge then whatever for data
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Smythe posted:tmobile ftw
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Endless Mike posted:more everything loyal is your service plan (which i guess they no longer offer to new customers). edge is/was (they don't seem to call it that anymore) the device installment plan. but sorry you're incapable of doing basic research since it's right on their website, even for non customers: lmao. this will show up as a $40 charge with $25 credit. don't ask why it can't show up as a $15 charge, it just cant.
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Oct 29, 2015 21:56
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Ludwig van Halen posted:it seems to me that they left plan prices as is, but added the phone lease as an additional charge. For Verizon, sure you can still get a $60 plan like before, but now you pay $30/month for the phone instead of 199 up front, oh and also you have to pay for 100% of the phone before you can upgrade yeah but before verizon would pay the remaining $400 as a subsidy, and make it up with additional charges now they just pass those costs onto you directly, so their balance sheet looks better it's neutral to the customer, but a positive to them.
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Jenny Agutter posted:lmao. this will show up as a $40 charge with $25 credit. don't ask why it can't show up as a $15 charge, it just cant. lol
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zen death robot posted:smythe you know you can just give yourself an AV, right? yea but i want to suport richards gtr fund
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also, well, i made the bad click and need to pay for it. pay for it with my wallet, like richard intended. dont want to abuse my buttons
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Oct 29, 2015 22:27
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computer parts posted:yeah but before verizon would pay the remaining $400 as a subsidy, and make it up with additional charges its not neutral to me when my current plan, which i signed up for last year is 60 bucks for 2gb and 199 for the phone, but no additonal charges now a similar plan for 3gb is $65, not bad right? WRONG! you add $30 for the phone, which you have to pay for 24 months which equals the full price of $650, a difference of a whopping 450 dollars over 2 years based on that alone
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Oct 29, 2015 22:37
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I like how I can put my phone on DND and still get text messages on the ipad
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Endless Mike posted:slightly? sure. not "confusing as hell" as you put it before. sorry for using hyperbole on the Internet
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Jenny Agutter posted:lmao. this will show up as a $40 charge with $25 credit. don't ask why it can't show up as a $15 charge, it just cant. they also didn't give me the right credit the first month and i had to call to get the right one. theyre a v. good company
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Smythe posted:also, well, i made the bad click and need to pay for it. pay for it with my wallet, like richard intended. dont want to abuse my buttons not the mod yospos deserves
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Oct 29, 2015 23:02
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Ludwig van Halen posted:its not neutral to me when my current plan, which i signed up for last year is 60 bucks for 2gb and 199 for the phone, but no additonal charges you're also getting an extra gigabyte a month also verizon is objectively the worst carrier in the US
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computer parts posted:also verizon is objectively the worst carrier in the US worst service? lol not even close
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computer parts posted:you're also getting an extra gigabyte a month they don't have a 2gb plan anymore, but an extra gig sure as hell isn't worth 30 bux e: i could go the other way and get 1gb for 30 + 20 line access, so i save $10 but then pay the same 30 for the phone, so 80 total, which is still more than i'm paying for the subsidized phone Baxate fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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i just love the new apple where they don't advertise or even mention the new features the devices have and you gotta wait for the devs or some teardown to tell you what a thing can do it's great so many surprises like christmas everyday
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PleasureKevin posted:i just love the new apple where they don't advertise or even mention the new features the devices have and you gotta wait for the devs or some teardown to tell you what a thing can do it's great so many surprises like christmas everyday this is because tim doesn't care about leaks and all of the specs of a new device are known even before it's announced officially
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actually stymie, the inverse is true no one knows till they get it home and start using it
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zen death robot posted:you love men's asses lol
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zen death robot posted:you love men's asses
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zen death robot posted:you love men's asses so what
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Mulva posted:Good, the twisting of the law in that case to protect an actual monopsonist was disgusting. it doesn't make sense to me that a store can't say "if you sell it for cheaper over there, sell it for the same price here" like someone wants to put a kiosk in your store and use your space, and you say yeah. then you hear the same person puts up a kiosk across the street except sells the product for 50% less. your customers that bought it from you get mad. they say you're a price gouger. and everyone goes across the street to buy the thing. not only can you not hope to sell poo poo you harm your reputation with your customers. so the next time a sales person comes around you set the terms. if he/she lowers the price across the street, lower it here too. the idea that's price fixing is crazy imo
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apple did not get in the trouble with the DOJ because they had a MFN clause
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the only reason I'd go with att would be lte fallback to hspa+ or w/e but I could do that w/tmo too tmo has bad service tho and I just don't really like att
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uncurable mlady posted:tmo has bad service tho if you're east of the mississippi this isn't true anymore the only large areas west of the Mississippi w/o service is literally nebraska and the dakotas
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i'm east of the mississippi and found t-mobile service to be adequate at best, and awful quite often. switched back to at&t and it's much better. minus side my data usage went up without music freedoms
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Ludwig van Halen posted:i'm v tempted to go to sprint and split a family plan with my girlfriend and get iphones 6s for the both of us lol if you pay more than $40/month for your cell phone plan
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mishaq posted:lol if you pay for your cell phone plan
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zen death robot posted:They have 700Mhz channels now and the 6s supports them yeah t-mobile 700 mhz completes making t-mobile the best carrier in the us, as rural/building penetration has been their biggest weakness
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