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does anyone have a 1 year contract anymore?

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I have verizon, i always had one year contracts (bb storm, droid 1, droidx)

I could never shake the feeling cellphone contracts in general are a ripoff and 2 year contracts make it worse.

These things are ultra high technology things that change extremely rapidly, i do not want to be trapped 2 years with large monthly payments on the same device.
 
so buy a device flat out - no contracts!

unfortunately only TMO actually lowers your monthly bill if you do this.
 
Buy the hottest subsidized phone and immediately sell it, move down market for a used phone, buy a better one in a year after selling it...

That way you stay close to the bleeding edge, but not directly on it.

And I agree, I hate the subsidized model with a passion. I'd much rather pay a lower monthly bill and buy my own device.

If TMobile had better building penetration I'd be using them, but am stuck with Verizon or Sprint.
 
Pliablemoose said:
Buy the hottest subsidized phone and immediately sell it, move down market for a used phone, buy a better one in a year after selling it...

That way you stay close to the bleeding edge, but not directly on it.

And I agree, I hate the subsidized model with a passion. I'd much rather pay a lower monthly bill and buy my own device.

If TMobile had better building penetration I'd be using them, but am stuck with Verizon or Sprint.
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the catch-22 of tmobile - their coverage is only good in major metros, where penetration is an issue and their 1700/2100mhz combo can't match up.

if you go out into the country where 1700/2100 would do well, they just don't have any towers 🙁
 
IIRC, TMobile still does. You will have to pay a little more up front for a phone, but it is still much cheaper than buying it outright. 1-year contracts are better, imho, because the phone is still usually under warranty when the contract runs out. Not so with 2-year contracts. I once had a phone stop working just outside of warranty but still under contract. Bleh.
 
usually I do a 2 year contract, but when I got my HTC Thunderbolt the price for 2yr and 1yr was almost the same so I went with a 1yr contract.
 
vshah said:
the catch-22 of tmobile - their coverage is only good in major metros, where penetration is an issue and their 1700/2100mhz combo can't match up.

if you go out into the country where 1700/2100 would do well, they just don't have any towers 🙁
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hell i had t-mobile in SF bay area, and hteir coverage isnt even that good there. at least for voice its ok, better than at&t up there, but still no where near verizon good.

i got in on a vzw 1 year contract the week before they stopped offering them (and got a company discount for a company i dont work for anymore, so i may not ever leave now... haha) .

i wish other companies followed that model. alas most people in america cannot front $500 for a phone and do not do math well enough to figure out they are getting killed inthe long haul by paying for that $500 month to month. its like payday loans level bad if you think about the subsidy as a $350 loan over 24 months that they charge you $20 a month for.
 
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