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Looks like that's probably true for all of them now. I have Sprint and after posting my question I looked up Sprint's "Easy Pay" option, which is exactly this.
by fluxquanta 11y ago
Looks like that's probably true for all of them now. I have Sprint and after posting my question I looked up Sprint's "Easy Pay" option, which is exactly this. For some reason I thought it was a rebranding of the current subsidized model where your phone and service payments were locked together.
- mikeash 11y agoA phone company providing reasonable options and not screwing you over at every opportunity is rather weird, and I didn't believe it at first either.
- Karunamon 11y agoAgreed - there's probably a business reason for it. Perhaps the fact that it's now a bog-standard financing arrangement forces them to allow it to be paid off separately?
- fluxquanta 11y agoHere's an idea: What if they studied customer behavior and found that when the traditional 2-year contract is up people started shopping around with other providers to see if they could get a better deal, and an unacceptable number were then lost as customers? I'm betting this happened quite a bit, actually. With the new system when the two years are up (assuming the phone wasn't paid off before then) the customer automatically sees a nice little drop in their bill, which may make them feel more positive about staying with the company, or upgrading their phone again with the thought of "I was already paying that extra amount before anyway". Just a thought, but I wonder what kind of research has gone into this sort of thing.