You have to be a complete itiot to not take this plan. Most of us on individual plans pay at a minimun with smartphones: 39.99 for individual myfaves 300, then 34.99 for unltd data+msg=$74.98/month…….

What are you gonna do?……I’m getting the new plan!!

#2 – I’m not AFRAID that I won’t be a beta tester anymore…I could care less. I just like knowing stuff before other people do. It really doesn’t bother me. I’ve only done it twice over the past year, I was fine before I was a beta tester, I’ll be fine after.

#3 – You took what I said and twisted like nobody’s business. Notice I said “in general” meaning, USUALLY…that doesn’t mean they don’t care at all. AND, most leaks are about products/services that people already know are coming anyway, usually because some CEO of some company mentioned it in a press conference. The G1 wasn’t a leak, T-Mobile AND Google mentioned it openly in press conferences. 3G and the cities it was coming to wasn’t a leak, people knew it was coming thanks to T-Mobile press conferences, they just didn’t know when. When a company wants to keep something under wraps completely, the know how.

Think about it…how many people here had NO clue 3G was coming until it lit up in there city? They may have known an estimation(which quarter it was coming) but they had NO idea what day.

How many people here knew about the 21mbps upgrade that happened in Philly before it happened?

Nobody? Why? Because T-Mobile didn’t want it out, they just did things without giving an opportunity for it to leak.

Think about this…if this information was never leaked, how many people would REALLY care about Project Black? If T-Mobile just all the sudden one day said, we’re gonna give out free handsets for 1 month to every person in the world for some sort of a publicity stunt, it’d take a week or two before everybody even knew the deal existed.

As I said, leaks create chatter, chatter creates hype, hype leads to people jumping in the water as soon as the pool is filled. If info about the iPhone had never been leaked, how many people do you think would’ve cancelled their contracts in those 3 months before it was released because they wanted to get a phone on a different carrier? Let’s say it was just 100(which im sure is VERY low), and lets say each person had a $40/month plan. Thats $4000/month they would’ve lost. Which over the life of a contract is $96,000. Let’s say just 50 of those people decided to stay to get the iPhone, not only do they keep from losing $24,000/year, they also actually get MORE money from the reps who stayed because now they have to purchase a data plan as well. People who probably upgraded to the 3G when it came out, and then the 3GS when IT came out.

Leaks are not always bad, sometimes they are, but more than not, it just creates a hype around a product/service. As they say, no publicity is bad publicity.