Pineroot: I don't knwo what puiblic school you attended but 59.99 = sprint 5gb plan 59.99 = VZW 5gb plan last I checked....those numbers are identical. Those are the ADVERTISED prices for both carriers.
SERO plans do not constitute cheaper, as they are not advertised, as well as because the majority of the sprint user base knows nothing of them. when SERO goes away...and it will because it is a giant loss of money. every idiot sprint fanboy coddling the balls of a carrier falling apart faster than michael jackson's face....will oddly be quiet. just like thye are now.
Please... everybody stop with the SERO "losing money" talking point, alright?
What Sprint is doing with SERO is akin to an airline selling cut-rate seats on a flight that's only 30% booked. Cruise lines do this as well, for instance on some Caribbean trips during hurricane season; you get to go for cheap, but you know the odds are fairly high that the itinerary won't go as scheduled. For both airlines and cruises, it STILL is better for them than to sail/fly empty vessels.
Likewise, I know that being a Sprint customer means their 'ship' might, ah, one day get re-routed to the T-Islands, or to Bankruptcy Bay. So what? Like my life would be ruined for the 2 hours it would take me to switch carriers and get a new phone, as Verizon fanboys yell out "I told you so!"...
In the end, since much of their network is underutilized, it makes more sense for Sprint to go after some value-conscious (but less faithful) customers to get some extra revenue. It still IS revenue; it's not like the 400 minutes or so + Mobile Web data I'm using up have much of an actual cost basis to them -- call termination costs, bandwidth, paper and postage. Otherwise, the network infrastructure was already there...
Uhh... why do I give a damn what is advertised or not? That's the silliest nit picking argument I've ever heard. I care about what I am paying for, not for what is advertised. So if I have SERO and it costs less, then whoopdie doo if the advertised rates were 10 times the amount of other carriers.
Why is it everyone on the internet, and especially Engadget, has to argue about everything, and whatever they prefer is so much better than everything else. Just use what you like and stop being acting like a jackass to everyone else.
Noted about the price, we were speaking of two different things though. I was mostly interested in the phone plans than the USB card plans. It makes more sense for me to use my phone to tether (I don't have to pay anything extra with the programs that are in the Mogul out of the box). Don't insult my education, I remain respectful to those that treat with respect, but you seem to do otherwise.
They don't have to advertise. They are all over the place or are you that blind you never seen it?
As far as the cost. Yep.. they look the same.. however, Sprint's network in most major markets is much better then VZW (that is when you can get a signal)..
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Pineroot:
I don't knwo what puiblic school you attended
but
59.99 = sprint 5gb plan
59.99 = VZW 5gb plan
last I checked....those numbers are identical.
Those are the ADVERTISED prices for both carriers.
SERO plans do not constitute cheaper, as they are not advertised, as well as because the majority of the sprint user base knows nothing of them. when SERO goes away...and it will because it is a giant loss of money. every idiot sprint fanboy coddling the balls of a carrier falling apart faster than michael jackson's face....will oddly be quiet. just like thye are now.
Please... everybody stop with the SERO "losing money" talking point, alright?
What Sprint is doing with SERO is akin to an airline selling cut-rate seats on a flight that's only 30% booked. Cruise lines do this as well, for instance on some Caribbean trips during hurricane season; you get to go for cheap, but you know the odds are fairly high that the itinerary won't go as scheduled. For both airlines and cruises, it STILL is better for them than to sail/fly empty vessels.
Likewise, I know that being a Sprint customer means their 'ship' might, ah, one day get re-routed to the T-Islands, or to Bankruptcy Bay. So what? Like my life would be ruined for the 2 hours it would take me to switch carriers and get a new phone, as Verizon fanboys yell out "I told you so!"...
In the end, since much of their network is underutilized, it makes more sense for Sprint to go after some value-conscious (but less faithful) customers to get some extra revenue. It still IS revenue; it's not like the 400 minutes or so + Mobile Web data I'm using up have much of an actual cost basis to them -- call termination costs, bandwidth, paper and postage. Otherwise, the network infrastructure was already there...
Uhh... why do I give a damn what is advertised or not? That's the silliest nit picking argument I've ever heard. I care about what I am paying for, not for what is advertised. So if I have SERO and it costs less, then whoopdie doo if the advertised rates were 10 times the amount of other carriers.
Why is it everyone on the internet, and especially Engadget, has to argue about everything, and whatever they prefer is so much better than everything else. Just use what you like and stop being acting like a jackass to everyone else.
Noted about the price, we were speaking of two different things though. I was mostly interested in the phone plans than the USB card plans. It makes more sense for me to use my phone to tether (I don't have to pay anything extra with the programs that are in the Mogul out of the box).
Don't insult my education, I remain respectful to those that treat with respect, but you seem to do otherwise.
They don't have to advertise. They are all over the place or are you that blind you never seen it?
As far as the cost. Yep.. they look the same.. however, Sprint's network in most major markets is much better then VZW (that is when you can get a signal)..