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Old 03-23-2011, 05:58 PM   #31
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There is still competition. On the side of lower prices, we have a larger company taking advantage of higher volume and higher efficiencies. I'm not saying AT&T prices definitely won't go up, but if they do, it won't be from less competition.
But the competition that was doing the most to help keep prices down is no longer competition.

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But the competition that was doing the most to help keep prices down is no longer competition.
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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! My family keeps trying to run away from AT&T in all their different forms, and they keep coming back for us!!!

grrr... they can't change anything though as far as individual contracts until a contract ends, right? so like, if they decide to raise the price or something it has to wait until after current contracts have ended.. right?
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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! My family keeps trying to run away from AT&T in all their different forms, and they keep coming back for us!!!

grrr... they can't change anything though as far as individual contracts until a contract ends, right? so like, if they decide to raise the price or something it has to wait until after current contracts have ended.. right?
There's a good chance that they won't touch your pricing even if your contract ends, as long as you renew it. It's called "grandfathering". As long as you don't change your plan or let the contract expire, they'll probably continue to give you what you have now. That's how it usually goes.
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There's a good chance that they won't touch your pricing even if your contract ends, as long as you renew it. It's called "grandfathering". As long as you don't change your plan or let the contract expire, they'll probably continue to give you what you have now. That's how it usually goes.
Yep, AT&T did such things with their data plans, so they would probably do it with others.
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Old 03-26-2011, 03:00 PM   #36
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Yep, AT&T did such things with their data plans, so they would probably do it with others.
The way contracts are structured, I don't think they have much of a choice. I might be wrong, but I am pretty sure that the contracts all say that when your contract expires, it will continue as it until you change it.
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There's a good chance that they won't touch your pricing even if your contract ends, as long as you renew it. It's called "grandfathering". As long as you don't change your plan or let the contract expire, they'll probably continue to give you what you have now. That's how it usually goes.
Not only is that how it usually goes, that's how it has to happen. They legally can't force a change of pricing on such things. That's how the wireless industry is set up.
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Not only is that how it usually goes, that's how it has to happen. They legally can't force a change of pricing on such things. That's how the wireless industry is set up.
I figured as much, but I didn't want to assume it was a legal obligation (though if it weren't, I'm pretty sure they'd change it all the time).
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I figured as much, but I didn't want to assume it was a legal obligation (though if it weren't, I'm pretty sure they'd change it all the time).
Yeah, it's the whole "you've entered into an agreement to supply this at this price" argument. Companies that don't do contracts change prices all the time, legally, look at Netflix. However since everything at cellular companies are contracted (yes even if it you can break it at any time you have a written agreement which is legally a contract) they can't do that.

See with Netflix you have a loose agreement wherein it states that as you have the right to leave the company at any time they have the right to change the rates at any time but they MUST provide adequate notice.

Cable does this a lot as does some other places. But when you are understood to have a contract, no they can't change your prices.
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