Another real life example from my work:
Scenario:
Mother has
att.com currently with 900 minutes with free nights and weekend rate plan and show wants to add her 14 yrs son to have a cell phone for emergency only. She pays about $100 ($80/month plus fees) after all the fees. And she cant get a family plan since there in nothing close to her usage (900-1000 mins/month) as a family plan from
att.com
Solution:
Option 1): If the stays with
att.com then her best bet would be prepaid phones for 30 dollars from
att.com and almost 10 cents a minute. Once the minutes are over its over, she has to wait till her son gets back to home.
Option 2): She can switch to t-mobile and get the promotional plan 1000 minutes with free nights and weekend, nationwide long-distance calling, and roaming fro $39.99 and for her son a Kid-connect plan for $19.99. Her bill will be 40+20=60 plus taxes and fees around $80 which is less then what is paying now. Her benefits are
-she will pay the same may be a little less
-she will get more minutes
-her son can’t go over the allocated minutes or can’t share her minutes
-even after her son uses all of the minutes, he can call her for free.
-her son will have free weekend to call
-her son can text and download also and all those goes against the minutes, so no extra cost.
-yes, she is paying $175 termination fee. She is making $50 for the phones and she is also saving $20/month . So after 6 months (6x$20=120+$50=170) she evens out and after that she is saving and also having a better plan.
She took Sony Ericsson Z500 and she took a Motorola RIZR Rose (T-Mobile) for FREE from
Letstalk.com with a $50 cash back to her and her son took a
Nokia 6103 phone for FREE also.
If you have any questions like this then feel free to post if here and we will try to get a solution for you.
Motorola RIZR and Nokia 6103
