I started getting notices
(text messages) from Verizon about my phone usage “nearing my contract limit
for this month” a few months ago, and they have continued, but so far I have
never gone over the limit. But, last
night I was checking out some incredibly cheap no-contract phone plans at
Target and noticed one from Virgin Mobile for only $30 a month that had 1,500
minutes of talk, 1,500 text messages and 30 MB of data (web access) a
month. I don’t know how much web data I
use, but I surely don’t use 1,500 minutes of talk and 1,500 text messages a
month. And I pay $70 or more (but got my
phone for $200 – a discount form the true value).
In the process of figuring
out what I really do use, I found the website above. Thanks to that website I found the incredibly
useful Verizon App – that will tell me all my usage right there on the phone,
any time of day or night, and for free.
Why didn’t I know that before?
Necessity is the mother of invention (or App research). Right?
I heard that AARP offers a
plan similar to Virgin’s plan for only $29 and some items are unlimited. And I read
that T-Mobile and Sprint are rolling out massive upgrades to their systems (to
get 4-G in more places and get better coverage). Soon it will be a free-for-all in pricing of
cell service. Which is probably long
overdue, since the market appears to be saturated. However, I have also read that there is
remarkably little “company switching” in the mobile phone business; just a few %
of customers a year defect. Customers
seem to want (and need) free new phones when their contracts come up for
renewal, and end up falling back in love with their current provider. So they stay
on. I know I do.
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