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EricH4753 said:
Well This is pretty neat if you switch to VM from t-mobile you get $100 for free and cheaper phones. For once I feel like VM is finally fighting back against other companies...Switching Phone Carriers to Virgin: Cancel T-Mobile | Virgin Mobile

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I saw that yesterday on VM website and thought it was odd that they would target only TMobile customers. I'd be giving that out to errybody who switches (except Sprint, Boost, and all other Sprint MVNOs)

I wonder though...where are they getting that $100 from? Are they financially stable enough to do that?
 
They should also let them bring their old phones they used with sprint..verizion etc. Then they would really convince people to join them and could spark up a fight between companies that would benefit us :)
 
Yeah but with prepaid I think that they make as much from the phone as they do with your plans, plus it helps keep you loyal knowing you can't use the damn things anywhere else, lol. :rolleyes:
OB
 
OverByter said:
Yeah but with prepaid I think that they make as much from the phone as they do with your plans, plus it helps keep you loyal knowing you can't use the damn things anywhere else, lol. :rolleyes:
OB
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Are you saying they make very little? :p When the EVO Vs were selling for $99, how much money was made off those devices?
Also, VM is now offering $100 incentive to switch from TMobile. :smokingsomb:
I think it would be an extremely successful strategy to allow Sprint Phones and even Verizon Phones (unless that contradicts a mutual agreement between Verizon and Sprint about using each other's phones).

Who do you make more money off? A Verizon customer who stays on Verizon's network, or a Verizon customer who brings his Verizon phone over to Virgin Mobile? ;) I would assume Sprint would not want VM taking it's customers, but unless there's an agreement in place with Verizon...I'd let VM do whatever it wanted to bring in more Verizon customers.
 
Palmetto Fellow said:
Are you saying they make very little? :p When the EVO Vs were selling for $99, how much money was made off those devices?
Also, VM is now offering $100 incentive to switch from TMobile. :smokingsomb:
I think it would be an extremely successful strategy to allow Sprint Phones and even Verizon Phones (unless that contradicts a mutual agreement between Verizon and Sprint about using each other's phones).

Who do you make more money off? A Verizon customer who stays on Verizon's network, or a Verizon customer who brings his Verizon phone over to Virgin Mobile? ;) I would assume Sprint would not want VM taking it's customers, but unless there's an agreement in place with Verizon...I'd let VM do whatever it wanted to bring in more Verizon customers.
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Would it be possible to bring my old Crickit Optimus C to Virgin? And put it on my account. I want to give it to my mother.
 
As someone who switched from VM to T-Mobile, I fully understand why Virgin requires a new phone. For example, if I could use my old VM phone, I would simply use that and pay for a month to get the $100 credit (which I would then use as three months of free service, or more accurately, 4 months for $40). Of course, once the credit ran out, I'd likely switch right back to T-Mobile.

My biggest problem is that I already know how much I'd give up in terms of data speed to go back to VM 3G, and WiMax wasn't reliable enough to be worthwhile. So, at a minimum, I'd need an LTE phone (which is in my area) and Virgin doesn't have an LTE phone that is good enough that I'd be willing to switch. If I'm going to pay money to buy a new LTE phone, at this point I'd rather buy a T-Mobile LTE phone, even despite the free $100 I could get from VM. Honestly, though, while LTE would be nice, T-Mobile's HSPA+ speed (I typically get 5 Mbps or higher) is good enough that I don't feel I have to have LTE.
 
I think they'd have more success if they offered $100 to everybody who doesn't switch from VM to T-mobile.
 
why would one switch to virgin moible vs tmobile....tmobile speeds are leaps and bounds faster than vm....i get 1.9 mg/s with virgin mobile...and i have seen 26mg/s with tmobile...but not sure if that is with tmobile prepaid phones or the contract phones.
 
Really T-mobile is too expensive for me $70 for T-mobile or $35 for VM. I'd rather sacrifice a slightly worse phone then pay an insane amount of money for a phone. Plus T-mobile slows you down to 2g with there 2.5 agreement. VM usually slows you down to 3g which is no problem for me...
 
EricH4753 said:
Really T-mobile is too expensive for me $70 for T-mobile or $35 for VM. I'd rather sacrifice a slightly worse phone then pay an insane amount of money for a phone. Plus T-mobile slows you down to 2g with there 2.5 agreement. VM usually slows you down to 3g which is no problem for me...
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I'm not sure what you are talking about. While T-Mobile's most expensive plan is $70, that plan is for unlimited talk, text, and data at 4G -- no throttling at all. T-Mobile's cheapest plan ($30) is cheaper than Virgin Mobile and gives your 5 GB of 4G data before throttling, though only 100 minutes of talk.

And both Virgin and T-Mobile throttle to 2G speeds. Likely the difference is that Virgin Mobile's 3G speeds, for most users, seem to run at 2G speeds, so it really doesn't slow most people down much when they get throttled on Virgin. I suspect you are one of those that is typically getting 2G speeds from Virgin if you think they throttle at 3G speeds.
 
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