It is interesting to note that the family plans for myFaves leaves off free mobile-to-mobile since, I suppose, you will be calling your 5 faves intead of your family.
Insteead of trying to emulate Alltel (is Alltel even a real challenger?), perhaps they should look at trying to keep customers they already have. I've been with Powertel/VoiceStream/T-Mobile since 1999 and the best deal they will give me on a new handset is a lousy $50 off if I sign on for 2 more years - and, as Jason @ 3:44 mentions, none of their phones are particularly interesting new models. I helped my mom activate her new RAZR from Verizon yesterday - one she got _free_ for renewing her contract at the end of her first 2-year contract - the entire time I was thinking, "And I'm staying with T-Mobile, why?" (My answer to that "why?" is usually that T-mobile has cheaper monthly charges so it is time to do a good comparison of rates.)
Of course, I don't have to spend 33 minutes on the phone with T-mobile to activate a new GSM phone as it takes less than 3 minutes to swap SIM's. (I've been assured that Verizon doesn't usually take more than like 5 minutes to activate phones, though, so I guess I just got lucky yesterday.)
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Tim in Augusta @ Oct 2nd 2006 7:49AM
It is interesting to note that the family plans for myFaves leaves off free mobile-to-mobile since, I suppose, you will be calling your 5 faves intead of your family.
Insteead of trying to emulate Alltel (is Alltel even a real challenger?), perhaps they should look at trying to keep customers they already have. I've been with Powertel/VoiceStream/T-Mobile since 1999 and the best deal they will give me on a new handset is a lousy $50 off if I sign on for 2 more years - and, as Jason @ 3:44 mentions, none of their phones are particularly interesting new models. I helped my mom activate her new RAZR from Verizon yesterday - one she got _free_ for renewing her contract at the end of her first 2-year contract - the entire time I was thinking, "And I'm staying with T-Mobile, why?" (My answer to that "why?" is usually that T-mobile has cheaper monthly charges so it is time to do a good comparison of rates.)
Of course, I don't have to spend 33 minutes on the phone with T-mobile to activate a new GSM phone as it takes less than 3 minutes to swap SIM's. (I've been assured that Verizon doesn't usually take more than like 5 minutes to activate phones, though, so I guess I just got lucky yesterday.)