Big Dan's Corner

..and finally give nationwide unlimited voice and data for a flat fee?

If you remember in the late 90′s it was a race to the bottom with land lines, free nights and weekend with $0.10/min then $0.05 a minute then they finally stopped playing games and now pretty much all our local telcos give us unlimited nationwide calls for a flat monthly fee along with a boatload of additional features: Caller ID, voice mail, call waiting, etc.

The cell phone companies are doing the same another race to the bottom with calling circles, and rollover minutes. What a waste of everyone’s energy.

Have you seen the new Straight Talk service? $45/mo prepaid unlimited everything courtesy of Tracfone and Wal-Mart. Sure the phones aren’t all that advanced but they just added a full keyboarded phone to the line up, I’m sure we’ll see more advanced phones down the line.

This tells me that if the company can charge you $45 with no long term commitment and they are still pulling a profit from it, there is no reason for these other companies to be charging upwards of $70 with a long term commitment most of it must be pure profit for these guys.