John Brownlee over at Consumerist recently received a long email from his mother , a 30 - yr veteran of the telecommunication industry , contrasting her wonderful substance abuser experience buy a postpaid cellular telephone in Europe and the frustrating good afternoon she spent hear to image out the vagaries of Pay - As - You - Go mobile phone services in the U.S. He post her substance for everyone to read but to whet your appetency , here ’s an extract from her close :
All this nonsense where they are telling you about access charges and when / whoever minutes , seems plan to hide monetary value that should n’t be there to begin with . I hate encounter mass who ca n’t be without a phone in their helping hand , but service should be general . Okay rate may vary with prison term , usage , and even space , but all networks interconnect , and a charge per unit variance between networks does n’t survive . Having free vocation within a connection is just a merchandising ploy to get the great unwashed on an item-by-item electronic connection .
likewise , if you have a turn the access is there , so to shoot you a day-by-day or use access fee is pay for a service that isn’t , especially if you are already paying either a monthly rate , or a high wage as you go minute plan
We feel your pain , Consumerist ’s ma ! We live and die for the the shiny shiny of new cellular phone but also feel like we need spreadsheets to properly understand all the possible options of our phone avail .
My Mom On Buying A Cell Phone In The States[Consumerist ]
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