iPhone on AT&T or iPhone on Verizon?
So I have had my iPhone for a little over 3 years now. I’m sold. Not a fanboy by any means but I don’t see my self moving to another phone in the foreseeable future. Not until someone knocks the iPhone from it’s throne of awesomeness.
AT&T on the other hand… Let me say the positive things first.
Rollover. Rollover was great when I was in a plan that was close to my usage. I had to upgrade from the 400 minute plan and I was looking for a 600 or 800 but no. The next level up was 1400. Well it was cheaper than the overage charges. Barely.Umm what else? Yeah, I can’t think of any other positives.
I have never felt like I was getting a good deal with AT&T. But this post isn’t meant to be a rant on AT&T’s crappy service and lame billing. Really it’s not.
So here we go.
Verizon just announced that they will be selling me an iPhone selling iPhones. I’ve got a month to decide where I’ll be getting my iPhone4. If it were today it would be Verizon. No contest. But I hold no animosity towards AT&T even though I want to. It was just a business decision. A legalized monopoly if you will. I can’t really blame them for that, if I had the chance I would have probably done something pretty similar.
But I was thinking about it, what would AT&T have to do to convince me to stay. Here goes.
To keep me as a customer AT&T would have to offer me:
- a 500-900 minute range plan for under $60
- Keep my huge mass of rollover minutes that I’ll never use on my current plan.
- UNLIMITED texting
- current data plans are fine but I want tethering without an extra charge
- family plan for as many iPhones as I want
- Basically I want my total bill for 2 iPhones and one other phone to be under $150. Right now I’m paying more than that for 1 iPhone and 2 regular phones.
If AT&T won’t give me that I’ll take whatever Verizon is selling because I’m just sick of feeling screwed every time I look at my bill.
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