US Cellular Carrier Individual Plans – Q1, 2010
Mobile-review have posted an article about US Cellular Carrier Individual Plans. Here is their final conclusion.
There could be great many factors that will define the carrier of choice for each person, from equipment availability to the reception in customer’s house, but leaving all the particulars aside, today T-Mobile offers by far the best value on the market. If you are not afraid of buying your equipment from a third party, you will have a phone you like and a very compelling voice, text and data plans. The main weakness of the network is the weird 3G frequency, limiting the choices available and the cost of entry with unsubsidized phones.
MetroPCS is a great value overall, but the limited handset availability and size of its network limits is appeal. For now, that is.
Sprint is less expensive than Verizon and offers more with free Direct Connect included into all of its plans. Its 4G network is growing when competition is only starting to work on it.
Verizon and AT&T are really competing with each other. It looks like nobody else on the market exists for marketing departments of both carriers and, considering the size of these two, it is not surprising. Nonetheless we do see that price policies of MetroPCS, Leap Wireless and T-Mobile have an effect on what these two behemoths do.
In the meantime, we will be observing the new developments, analyze them and bring you quarterly updates, hoping our work will help you to choose the carrier and plan fitting your needs the most.
As for the overall market, we feel that the price war is far from over and before the end of the year we may see more price reductions from everybody, specifically on data. This will in turn have an interesting effect on your home internet provider, just like reductions in cellular voice traffic cost made a huge impact on your home phone company. Don’t you just love to live in a technology era?
There could be great many factors that will define the carrier of choice for each person, from equipment availability to the reception in customer’s house, but leaving all the particulars aside, today T-Mobile offers by far the best value on the market. If you are not afraid of buying your equipment from a third party, you will have a phone you like and a very compelling voice, text and data plans. The main weakness of the network is the weird 3G frequency, limiting the choices available and the cost of entry with unsubsidized phones.
MetroPCS is a great value overall, but the limited handset availability and size of its network limits is appeal. For now, that is.
Sprint is less expensive than Verizon and offers more with free Direct Connect included into all of its plans. Its 4G network is growing when competition is only starting to work on it.
Verizon and AT&T are really competing with each other. It looks like nobody else on the market exists for marketing departments of both carriers and, considering the size of these two, it is not surprising. Nonetheless we do see that price policies of MetroPCS, Leap Wireless and T-Mobile have an effect on what these two behemoths do.
In the meantime, we will be observing the new developments, analyze them and bring you quarterly updates, hoping our work will help you to choose the carrier and plan fitting your needs the most.
As for the overall market, we feel that the price war is far from over and before the end of the year we may see more price reductions from everybody, specifically on data. This will in turn have an interesting effect on your home internet provider, just like reductions in cellular voice traffic cost made a huge impact on your home phone company. Don’t you just love to live in a technology era?
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