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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
8/$50 is cheaper but not necessarily better.
People were waiting on hold for hours, threat of cancelling subscriptions was almost non-existant because even if you cancelled there was no guarantee you'd be able to get into the new plan or get your number ported over. Why would any of the big 3 drop to a slightly better offer? If they matched they keep their client base. There'd be so few people that would have changed phones/companies to save $10 a month and get 2 less gigs it wouldn't even be worth it. That's not necessarily collusion that's just knowing what your competition is doing.
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They don't have to do it now.
Offer it 3 months from now when nobody is expecting it. Fact is that they all just copy each other and make sure prices stay as high as possible while everyone makes max profits. As soon as Freedom and their 'craptacular' coverage came along and offered a better plan, the big 3 together decided that they will match, but will ALL match exactly the same.