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The Triumvirate of Post Paid Contract Perks

by Jayvee on April 22nd, 2008

Here are three good deals that any telco should offer your post paid plan subscriber. As in.

No hidden fees!
Doesn’t it suck to find out that your $30 dollar phone plan has $20 dollars more worth of “hidden charges?” The reason why I have stuck to my telco for more than three years is that the billing statement is so easy to read. A is A, B is B. I don’t have fancy sounding lingo like “currency conversion charges” or “additional miscellaneous fees” suspiciously printed before the sum total of my bill.

Incentive to renew!
You have a great phone plan, but is your telco giving you an incentive to lock in once again right before your contract expires? Usually, the best incentive for retaining accounts is to have free phones given off for a lock in period of two years. The telco doesn’t really make money with the base charges and aims to earn more with upgrading plans for better phones or through data or excess SMS charges. Fine by me.

Option to downgrade!
Definitely the ultimate perk — if your telco allows you to downgrade your plan without hesitation. This offer is too good to be true but it does exist. All you need to do as a consumer is to be very persistent and tell them that you’re a member of the press and you’ll write about them in your next column if the– …

When applying for a post paid plan, what items do you consider as real perks?

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