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Not Gonna Do it...
By Syran on 6/12/2012 9:13:15 AM , Rating: 2
The price at the bottom end really bites. I bet, against current pricing, things are probably decent, but for us grandfathered unlimiteds, it sucks.

Right now, we have 1 basic, 3 androids on our account (all 3 androids have unlimited data) with 1400 minutes (we hardly use half, but we do alot of mobile to mobile and Friends&Family calls that don't consume minutes), after a corporate discount, taxes, and all is $218.53. Typical month, we consume between 5 - 8 GB of data total between the 3 smartphones without any hotspots or tethering.

With the new system, based on an 8GB plan:
$240 + $20 taxes and surcharges = $260
I'm not sure how corporate discounts will work, in the past, it was off the primary account + 1 phone.
In our case, would be $70.20 access + 31.20 first phone + 80 (2 smartphones) + $30 (basic phone) + $20 taxes = $231.40. Only benefit is unlimited calling.
If they discounted the whole thing, it would be $207.20, but still not provide us with enough imho, to switch.

I'm actually planning to pick up a jetpack to move my 4G sim into for a mobile hotspot since I have unlimited. Will be interesting to see what the future holds.

