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The standard service provider contract you mention (in the US) is "postpaid": you pay at the end of the month for the usage you had during that month. This is c
by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
The standard service provider contract you mention (in the US) is "postpaid": you pay at the end of the month for the usage you had during that month. This is credit: you use the service, then pay after for what you used. That's opposed to "prepaid" service, where you buy "minutes" or "data" before use, and must manually buy more if you run out.
- yebyen 5y agoI have been through many phone sales and the postpaid model does not always have to account for price variability. There are plenty of fixed cost plans with unlimited calling. They will still ask for your social security number and try to make you a new credit account before they tell you there is a deposit option possible. I have no idea why it would be to the advantage of a business like T-mobile to get you on a postpaid plan when there is no possibility of running up your bill. It's still the option they push on hardest when you walk up to the storefront. The credit model is the default model. That was my point. I don't know that I had a point. You shouldn't need to maintain a credit account just to keep a phone number, but I guess it's real estate and that's valuable, they will put it back into the pool if you ever stop paying the bill. I haven't had to deal with these kind of problems myself for a long time, but the pain is still fresh.