[LINK] News: 'New mobile phones will double as credit cards'

[Adam Todd]

At 07:55 PM 28/04/2007, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Part of the problem is the way phone companies sell phones.  If they
>sold phones outright or made a clear differentiation between paying
>off a phone and having an account and weren't constantly trying to
>obfuscate the cost of phones and calls and accounts then there
>wouldn't be such pressure to constantly upgrade.


I'm not confused.

I pay $0 for the phone each month.

I was on a 24 month contract for $22 a month, which also gave me $22 
worth of call credits.  I had to up this to a $33 a month plan 
because the legal dealings were costing me more than $22 a month.

For an extra $3 a month I get free MMS to people on the same network 
- which I use profusely rather than make a phone call :)

But I have 300 free minutes of free calls to people on the same 
network and even though i make huge numbers of calls, rarely ever use 
all of that.

I'm not confused :)  I pay next to nothing for my phone and services 
and it's more cost effective and has more range than a $400 two way radio!