This was an interesting scenario as today I received an offer from my phone carrier to change to a newer LTE plan that at first seems like a better value. Currently I pay about $40\/month and I get the following:<\/p>\n
Unlimited Data (5GB full speed allotment) I was told I could get this for $40 for the first year.<\/p>\n Limited time: Activate for $40\/mo (for 12 months!)<\/p>\n 3 GB + 3 GB bonus* (full-speed data) Now the thing is though as indicated this price would only be valid for one year where it states \u201cYou will receive a $5 monthly credit applied to your account for up to 12 months to a maximum of $60.\u201d So that means after a year it would be $45 a month. Kind of made me wonder, would it be worth it to eventually pay more?<\/p>\n My biggest concern is that the plan I am on is pretty much not offered anymore. So if I decided to leave it then I can\u2019t get it back. So would it make sense to go with the more featured plan that will definitely be more expensive in the future? Usually for deals like these I tend to hold off until the very last minute of the offer to decide.<\/p>\n Financially it wouldn\u2019t be too big of a deal, but it\u2019s usually the habit of not thinking things thoroughly of course that I tend to want to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was an interesting scenario as today I received an offer from my phone carrier to change to a newer LTE plan that at first seems like a better value. Currently I pay about $40\/month and I get the following: Unlimited Data (5GB full speed allotment) Unlimited Canada-wide Picture \/Video Messaging Unlimited US-wide Picture \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[3257,35,1328],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-expensive","tag-finance","tag-phone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2hL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUnlimited Canada-wide Picture \/Video Messaging
\nUnlimited US-wide Picture \/ Video Messaging
\nUnlimited Canada-wide Texting
\nUnlimited Global Texting
\nUnlimited Canada-wide Calling
\nUnlimited US-wide Calling
\nWorld Saver Talk & Text
\nVoicemail
\nCall Control (Caller ID, Missed Call Alerts, Conference Calling, Call Forwarding, Call Waiting)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nUnlimited calls to Canada & the U.S.
\nUnlimited global text\/MMS
\nUnlimited Canada\/U.S. picture\/video texting
\nInternational calling from 1\u00a2\/min to over 200 countries
\nReduced roaming rates in over 50 countries across the world<\/strong><\/p>\n