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Old 11-21-2012, 03:23 PM  
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Originally Posted by Killswitch View Post
Haha, I work with what I have. I can pay $100/mo for unlimted talk, text, and 2GB transfer on Verizon (which I am) or I can own a phone that was phased out 10 years ago and pay $20/mo for no contract.

Not to mention all non-big carriers don't even cover nationwide unless you get a contract with them, which then brings you back up to the $100/mo mark anyway.

I'll pay $100/mo for an iPhone than $20/mo for a Nokia 6010.
you're missing my point... I can see that $100/mo is the de facto standard for anything useful, so you have no choice. Just saying those prices are frikken crazy - if I travelled to the US, I could add an option for 1G data and 3hrs talk for ?15/mo. Now god knows which network that would go on, but I'm with Orange, which in Europe is a major player, so their roaming I'm guessing peers with major players, so I'd expect pan-US coverage...

if so, I'd have unlimited European everything and 3 hr talk and 1GB data in the US for ?45/mo, which is still a shit lot less ($60/mo) than what you are paying...

How can your telcos rationalise that discrepancy?
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