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Originally Posted by BarracksSi
I've wanted to do this for a while now.
Kickass phones, good reception, and SIMPLE calling plans with no stupid nickel-and-dime add-ons.
Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?
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Totally.
One day, I was bored, so I wrote up an idea of the ideal "fair" cell phone company on my Powermac 6100.
It was like 3 pages long, but it went something like this...
"Instead of paying a set minimum monthly fee for a set minimum number of minutes, you pay a flat per-minute rate. For example, if calling was 8 cents/minute, and you talked for 350 minutes in a month, your bill would be $28 for that month. Text messages cost roughly half of the per-minute rate, and aren't billed as an "add-on", but instead along with your regular calls. There are no extra fees added on to your bill; operating costs for the company are included in the per-minute rate. There are no overages, because there is no set minute allowance. Night and weekend calling is treated no differently than peak-hours calling. There are no roaming fees, or reduced rates for in-network calling."
I don't remember the whole thing, but it was basically a solution to every phone company's problem.