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Originally Posted by Azure
Don't you love competition?
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Its that and the changing number of options on these plans that can be massaged.
10 years ago (back in the bill per second era), you were slave to whatever the companies wanted, because basically it was all about voice minutes. Sure, the odd text message as that was slowly starting, but all you could hope for was decent buckets of minutes, and maybe a feature like VM or CID or LD minutes thrown in.
Now there a bigger emphasis on texts, and in the past 3 years, data. With the widespread availability of those features, and I am guessing still a good margin each company makes on text and data (even over voice minutes still), and of course increased network capacity and leaps in technology, prices can come down on each one of these functions (data/voice/text) within a plan.
Also, handet prices have come down with the larger market, meaning that the telecom companies have that much more margin on handset sales, IMO.
But yes, number porting and coverages all similar, there's less advantage between networks on those basis, then even 6 or 7 years ago.