this may be old news that i have missed,but i was just on the
net10's website, and seems they have done away with the
80.00 unlimited, guess that wasn't making money on it
since all the new cheeper plans are here.
Well, at least they finally DID SOMETHING with it. Straight Talk had better rates and coverage and real web capabilities at a lesser price and Walmart marketing. Tracfone was letting Net10 Unlimited stagnate . It was the only prepaid unlimited with full Att network coverage though.
Too bad they didn't just drop the price. A lot of regular Net10 users could have had an unlimited option without switching phones over to Straight Talk.
I don't think they wanted that as Net10 phones can be cheaper then ST ones.
Oh well. Att probably couldn't match the deal Verizon was giving them on ST.
It was innovative for its time (2008) and will be missed in that regard as being along with the original VM unlimited talk plan, the first mainstream national network prepaid unlimiteds. (Powerlink unlimited , a Sprint mvno , was one of the first prepaid unlimited talk plans in 2007. They have since stagnated and been surpassed by better offerings from competitors too.)
Cricket , Metro etc of course have been doing it for a while too, but with less then national network coverage.
I think the only way they could have gotten it to sale is to have either equalled or beat ST's price. I'd say it would only have worked if they could get Att to give them a wholesale price that would allow Net10 to sell it for $40 because it didn't have unlimited true web like ST does. I don't think Att was willing to do that, even for their biggest mvno client. Hence the death of N10 unltd.
All the gsm unlimited are generally more expensive/offer less then their cdma counterparts do anyway. That's just a fact.
Att talk/text : $60. Air Voice/H20 unlimited talk/text $50
Simple Mobile : talk/text/20 megs $50 or $40 for just talk.
ST is $45 for everything.
Page Plus is $40 for talk/text/20 megs, the same plan as Simple with better coverage .
All of the gsm plans do have intl texting though.
Still, overall gsm unlimiteds and paygo rates even cost more then cdma, whether Sprint/Verizon mvno or independents like Metro.
Check out Locus and Air Voice. Both have Att/gsm and Verizon /cdma paygo rates. The Verizon/cdma side is always a better buy.
Unlimited plans in particular are just more economical to run on cdma in general then gsm. At least here in the USA. In the EU and the rest of the world, it may be different.
Straight Talk is Verizon cdma. US wireless economics in practice.
Well, at least they finally DID SOMETHING with it. Straight Talk had better rates and coverage and real web capabilities at a lesser price and Walmart marketing. Tracfone was letting Net10 Unlimited stagnate . It was the only prepaid unlimited with full Att network coverage though.
Too bad they didn't just drop the price. A lot of regular Net10 users could have had an unlimited option without switching phones over to Straight Talk.
I don't think they wanted that as Net10 phones can be cheaper then ST ones.
Oh well. Att probably couldn't match the deal Verizon was giving them on ST.
It was innovative for its time (2008) and will be missed in that regard as being along with the original VM unlimited talk plan, the first mainstream national network prepaid unlimiteds. (Powerlink unlimited , a Sprint mvno , was one of the first prepaid unlimited talk plans in 2007. They have since stagnated and been surpassed by better offerings from competitors too.)
Cricket , Metro etc of course have been doing it for a while too, but with less then national network coverage.
I still think it's lame you can only get at&t's unlimited with their limited PayGo coverage. They need to put the unlimited option on their Pick Your Plan option, which has more extensive coverage. Of course, then they won't let you refill your account with prepaid cards. Now THAT is a stupid decision!
People actually PAY for what A Fee & Fee calls service?! Why?
VM sucks now, but at least they dodged the initial unlimited war bullet on their unlimited talk offering by lowering the price from $80 to $50 back in April. Though, with all the changes in prepaid since then, it might as well be a century ago.
Net10 just stood there for a whole year and a half with NO changes. No wonder it died. The expensive unlimited plans are going the way of the dodo bird, which is a good thing. At $80, you can get unlimited EVERYTHING on a smartphone on Tmobile POST paid.
the last time i looked at the net10 web site
the unlimited play wasn't even listed anymore.
shame, after years of service, i have next to no
failures of service
Net10 should changet their name to NetUnlimited. No 10 cpm anymore. And maybe this thread can be merged with the main Net10 unlimited thread as it appears to be extraneous at this point.
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