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brin_bellwayPublic Mobile gave three days' notice that they were going to stop taking new subscriptions to that plan, but I didn't check my RSS feed for a couple days, so I only just saw it.
I'm not going to sign up. While I'd been taking some comfort in its existence, to be honest I don't think I'll ever need a plan that is *both* that basic *and* specific to me. The *real* basic phone plan, as I was just talking about in a Tumblr tag ramble, is borrowing your parents' phones. Situations in which *all four* family members are in different, Wi-Fi-less locations simultaneously are incredibly rare, such that there's really no point in having four functioning SIM cards between us. Three is enough.
And when circumstances change such that that is no longer true (like getting an accounting internship), it'll almost certainly be in such a way that the $7/month† plan wouldn't suffice either. I'll want mobile data for *less* than $30/GB so that I can have Internet access on the commuting bus.
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Edit: postscript
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†Yes, I know that--if you count the price listed in the link--I've described this plan as having three different prices over the course of this post. In descending order: undiscounted price, price with discount for allowing them to take payment automatically each month, price with that discount + the $1/month discount your *referrer* gets for having referred you (but if you share finances with your referrer this is equivalent to getting the discount yourself).
I'm not going to sign up. While I'd been taking some comfort in its existence, to be honest I don't think I'll ever need a plan that is *both* that basic *and* specific to me. The *real* basic phone plan, as I was just talking about in a Tumblr tag ramble, is borrowing your parents' phones. Situations in which *all four* family members are in different, Wi-Fi-less locations simultaneously are incredibly rare, such that there's really no point in having four functioning SIM cards between us. Three is enough.
And when circumstances change such that that is no longer true (like getting an accounting internship), it'll almost certainly be in such a way that the $7/month† plan wouldn't suffice either. I'll want mobile data for *less* than $30/GB so that I can have Internet access on the commuting bus.
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Edit: postscript
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†Yes, I know that--if you count the price listed in the link--I've described this plan as having three different prices over the course of this post. In descending order: undiscounted price, price with discount for allowing them to take payment automatically each month, price with that discount + the $1/month discount your *referrer* gets for having referred you (but if you share finances with your referrer this is equivalent to getting the discount yourself).
