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   XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: horatio@horatio.net   
      
   On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:39:42 -0500, ElfinArc wrote:   
      
   > The data is the big deal with phone plans these days.  Since nearly all   
   > have unlimited talk/text, data is the only thing they have left to play   
   > with.  For those that use a lot of cell data, it is very important and nice   
   > to have all these new/upgraded data deals.  For others that really don't   
   > use much data, there are nearly no real deals that are much different   
   > between carriers.   
   >   
   > Guys like me that only sign up for the basic deals and don't really care   
   > that the basic ones have more data, it makes picking a carrier so much   
   > easier.   
      
   I'm like you are, in that I first signed up with T-Mobile for their   
   $60/month plan with unlimited talk/text and NO data.   
      
   That worked fine until I went to Europe a few times and the cost of the   
   calls was a few hundred bucks, so I switched off that grandfathered plan to   
   $100/month for the same 4 phones with 1GB of data (at that time).   
      
   Now it's $100/month (plus government stuff, of course) and 3.5GB of data,   
   but I had only signed up for 1GB of data (the rest T-Mobile keeps giving to   
   me for free).   
      
   I guess there is absolutely no risk to T-Mobile in giving me more and more   
   data since I'm unlikely to use it just because they give it to me.   
      
   It's like giving me an exercise machine or a TV.   
   I'm not likely to use them so giving them to me would be worthless.   
      
   In fact, I received *two* iPads for free, and I almost never use them   
   except to debug what is going wrong with what the kids want to do with   
   them.   
      
   SO that's why I asked if T-Mobile was doing that for all their customers,   
   or only the ones who aren't using data?   
      
   NOTE: Every tactical trick an intelligent person can find out about their   
   vendor is a way to use those tactical tricks in the future to get a better   
   deal. For example, I just called Comcast four times, and the first two   
   calls gave me a *lousy* deal, but the third call I used Zillow to make   
   believe I was a new customer and they gave me a far better deal on that   
   third call. Guess what the fourth call was all about!   
      
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