if the big 4 were smashing them, then the unlimited carriers wouldn't be expanding consistently. Even within Sprint, the profitable part of the company is Boost. Clearly the expanding part of the market right now is people for whom "nationwide" isn't the important part of the equation.
With Sprint specifically, they're going to continue to hemorrhage customers with these prices. So they're going to have to lower prices in order to reverse that trend. Then Verizon will have to do the same, in order to keep expanding instead of start losing ground to Sprint.
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if the big 4 were smashing them, then the unlimited carriers wouldn't be expanding consistently. Even within Sprint, the profitable part of the company is Boost. Clearly the expanding part of the market right now is people for whom "nationwide" isn't the important part of the equation.
With Sprint specifically, they're going to continue to hemorrhage customers with these prices. So they're going to have to lower prices in order to reverse that trend. Then Verizon will have to do the same, in order to keep expanding instead of start losing ground to Sprint.