08-15-2017, 12:56 PM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
I'm just really good at picking apart "terms and conditions"):
Just because they can raise the price, doesn't mean they will. I signed up with Virgin Mobile seven years ago, smartphone, unlimited text and data, 400 minutes talk, $25 a month. They dropped that plan years ago, I think their cheapest is now $35 a month. I still pay $25 every month.
(It's) what the existentialists called "awful freedom" the reinvention of irrationality by marginalized people, just in order to spite science. -Elif Batuman
It's possible that 7 years ago they weren't clever enough to add the "we can/will screw you" verbiage to their terms and conditions like they do now. Apple/AT&T(?) fought legal battles for years trying to shed "unlimited data" customers from the original iphone customers and lost... they eventually got rid of them by discontinuing the 2G service that was available at the time, rendering the devices inoperable.
It could also just be that you are a good, long-term customer, and they appreciate your business, and that your usage is still profitable to them. We have a Verizon agreement that is better $ than anything else available, hope to hang onto it as long as possible.
ETA: ", rendering the devices inoperable." plus content