How often do you change your mobile phone plan? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by CanadianCabbage@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like every two years I need to call my carrier and complain if I want a decent deal. They will do things like upgrade my plan on their website to have 10 extra gigabytes of data but won't upgrade me to it until I contact them. There's also all the new member exclusive deals that I feel make it impractical to just sit on one plan for an extended period of time.

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[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Never. I've only ever used a prepaid plan. I know exactly how much my bill is gonna be.

Well, not never. It's been probably 5 years since I got wifi and changed to the lowest Internet plan. Before that it was also years since my last change.

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You might be European as well (as am I). I supect the poster is from North America. And North America is a little special when it comes to phone/internet service (as in: almost universally, they pay a lot but always have the latest devices on their contact). Afaik, prepaid is mostly dead at least in the US, always was more expensive than in the EU ~~and always had a bad rap due to usage for "burner" phones~~. [edited: struck part of the sentence, see below]

I've looked at "low-cost" mobile providers like Ting some time ago and shuddered at the prices.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Also, I feel like your information on how Americans feel about prepaid phones is somewhat inaccurate. Almost everyone I know who doesn't have kids uses a prepaid plan, and there is definitely no stigma against them. Perhaps the Americans you talk to are more high class than I, but the working class uses prepaid more often than plans (at least people 40 or under).

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

Ok. I got the stigma thing mostly from movies, so I guess I need to watch fewer crime procedurals. :) I'll edit the comment...

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