Plus, depending on what store and what manager if someone is willing to bring in business by activating a couple lines, the store will work out a deal or even price match but if and only if its a legit deal and your not some douche bag committing fraud trying to activate couple blackberrys.

My suggestion to people, activate at a corporate store just to be sure everything is set up correctly on your account and so you can get activation fee waived if you qualify for a discount. On upgrades, go to the 3rd party retailers because corporate stores can not and very rarely will waive the $18 upgrade fee. Also the price of a phone can not be touched, discounted or price matched for an upgrade. I know some of you complain and say “well i’ve been a customer for such a long time blah blah blah” Complain all you want but im telling you reality and how the game works. Which is also why im suggesting going to a 3rd party to get your upgrades so you can save $$. thats my $.02!

Verizon and AT&T are slugging it out (I assume everyone has noticed the commercials on TV). Sprint and T-Mo are not slashing prices since their prices are already lower than the Number 1 & 2 carriers (in size).

So T-Mo is left with it’s campaign that says “Hey we have been cheaper and still are cheaper than others, all along.”

In conjunction with plan price wars I suspect we will see the handset price war, to where all a carrier like T-Mo can do (who already has low or “slashed” talk and data plans)is now lower its handset prices (to respond to the price wars.)

In other words, since T-Mo can’t attract customers with its price plans (because there’s no more slashing left, as much as I’d like to see a data plan go back to $10 a month. LOL.) it can only now start working on discounting the handset discounts.

Like I said last August, we the consumers will be the big beneficiaries of the current price wars. Standby to see big changes with:

Handset prices (including T-Mo’s unique payment plant that may become an industry standard and consumer expectation);

Talk prices reduced to almost pennies as carriers have to see that data is the money maker (revenue generator);

And data prices. But keep in mind T-Mo does not have much room to play with here.

I still stand by my prediction in August (in a magazine article I wrote). What will see is migration to two simple plans, both unlimited, that include data and talk. Individual unlimited plans and family/multiple line plans.

Handsets will be sold at subsidized prices or one can choose to pay full price (but on payments.) This is as T-Mo is doing and I see that as the way of the future, assuming T-Mo’s competitors see it catching on.

As I said before… enjoy. I dunno about you, but it’s nice after paying carriers probably what totals to $75,000 to finally be getting a break.

Also, offer customers a ONE year option.

u are so righ………clap clap!!