Is there any reason to do postpaid these days?

[blacksurfer]

I'd like to go prepay. But on five lines all iPhones I'm paying att about $195 per month. My iPhones are locked and I still can't find any prepay that will be less.

[HF305]

Individual single-line accounts won't find the best price in postpaid. On the other hand, family plans fully loaded with 5 phones can be a better deal than prepaid.

[jgrobe]

There are more than 4 cell phone carriers in the U.S. (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon). While these 4 have adequate prepaid possibilities, there are a large number of carriers which only offer an over-priced prepaid of their own plus Tracfone. Tracfone is not all that desirable--unless you are a minimal user (like myself).

[offthegrid]

Priority has been a part of call routing since the Kennedy assassination, when the nation's telephone system seized up under the call attempts volume. The Government told AT&T not to let that happen again.

I worked for one of Verizon's ancestors. All their switching gear had priority routing, its built into the class of service programming. All modern switching gear evolved from Nortel, AT&T and Ericsson. I worked on them all.

Military, Public Safety/Government take priority. Unless there is a law against carriers prioritizing postpaid over prepaid they are doing it. However I cannot say for certain since I am no longer working in that field.

Do you actually know if this "priority" exists or are you just supposing? Unless you can prove this you're just grasping at straws here.