If T-Mobile sold coffee
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Nobody is accusing mobile phone companies of being reasonable when it comes to their policies and prices. Take T-Mobile, my family’s mobile phone vendor for instance, their prices and policies for ring-tones, wallpaper and messaging are outrageous when compared to similar goods from other vendors.
If I got my coffee from T-Mobile, it would probably come in a 3 oz. cup, look and taste like muddied water and cost $7 a cup.
Don’t get me wrong. My family’s T-Mobile plan has four phones that we got free and costs about $100 a month. But this is for the bare minimum. Maybe the coffee comparison is a little off but consider this:
- My daughter can purchase from an online music store a High School Musical song for 99 cents. Why does it cost $2.49 to get a ring-tone of the same song from T-Mobile for a low bit-rate clipping?
- I can get a 4×6 hi-res printout of a picture on glossy paper from my local drug store for 29 cents. Why does a postage-stamp sized, low-res electronic picture from T-Mobile to use on my phone as wallpaper costs me $1.49?
- We don’t have a text messaging plan but when we receive a text message from someone, we have to pay for it. When I call T-Mobile and ask them to turn off text messaging altogether on our phones they tell me it can’t be done! Why not?
- According to Wikipedia, mobile phones were invented in 1947. The technology for a call to travel through several cells was invented in 1970. The first commercial cellular network was launched in 1979. Why do I still get dead spots and dropped calls on regular basis?
- When I wanted add a line for my daughter, she picked the free phone she liked from the T-Mobile website. I went to the local T-Mobile store only to see that the same phone costs $79 at the store! Why won’t the T-Mobile store have the same prices as their website or honor their own online pricing?
I realize that these are rhetorical questions and I’m sure other mobile carriers have similar issues. How are they getting away with this?
