| Todd Allcock 2007-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| At 24 Sep 2007 06:18:02 -0400 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> The whole thing smacks of Fiddy Cent selling me a phone on the
> street corner.
Except 50 cent is much better financed than Page Plus!
PagePlus is probaby the longest lasting of the "smally fry" MVNOs,
and offers
a much better deal than most. If the shoestring operation scares
you, don't buy it! It's a risk/rewards thing- what's at risk? A
$20 eBay phone and $2.50/month airtime? The reward is a cheap
prepaid system with outstanding coverage. For (almost) the same
coverage, Verizon InPulse is less risk at $15/month, and certainly a
contract plan is virtually risk free at $40+/month.
PagePlus is intended to be sold through small independent brick and
mortar cellular dealers, and unlike some MVNOs like Beyond Wireless
who undercut their dealers' MSRP on their website, PP seems to want
to let their dealers make the sales and deal with the "headaches"
(activations, ESN changes, etc.) rather than try to be a web-based
business. If I were still a cellular dealer, I'd be selling them.
(Why represent a company who actively "steals" your business?)
--
"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003
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