Rollover or Fair&Flexible?
I typically use less then 800 anytime, most of my minutes are m2m and n&w, so I would rather pay $10 less every month, and only pay more if I actually use those minutes. Now I have some customers who use like 200 mintues during the winter, and like 1500 or more during the summer, so rollover is much better for them because they just dip into their huge pool of rollover when they need it. I personally like F&F better tho.
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i personally would rather have the fair and flexible my reason is i used to sell cingular and the way the roll over mins are it screws you out of money if you have 600 minutes and lets say you pay $65.00 a month and you only use 300 mins every month then 300 minutes roll over every month and at the end of the month they expire so technically you paid for something you didnt even use.
i mean in some cases you dont go over so the fair and flexible would be a waste to those people.
just my opinions =)
i personally would rather have the fair and flexible my reason is i used to sell cingular and the way the roll over mins are it screws you out of money if you have 600 minutes and lets say you pay $65.00 a month and you only use 300 mins every month then 300 minutes roll over every month and at the end of the month they expire so technically you paid for something you didnt even use.
i mean in some cases you dont go over so the fair and flexible would be a waste to those people.
just my opinions =)
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dont you mean at the end of a year? Its not really 'rollover' if they expire at the end of the month
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You may have sold Cingular, but you missed the boat on how rollover works. Rollover minutes do not expire after a month. Rollover minutes build up for 1 year, and then roll off a month at a time. The ones that roll off are replaced rolling ON from the month before. So once you have a years worth, the just replenish as they roll off.
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Just to correct you they don't expire at the 'end of the month' they expire at the end of 12 mths...so you have a whole year to use them....if someone is only using 300 min a month...wouldn't it make more sense to go to a 250 plan or 450....and not pay for the 600 if they are not using it? I mean come on now!! 😳
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which one's right for you or me really depends on what type of phone user you or i am (or are). if you're a student or someone who uses their phone the wat that dnywhite described then you belong to the small demographic that rollover was designed for...but the demographic that fair and flexible was designed to satisfy is much larger than rollover's, not to mention that the rollover demographic is included in the fair and flexible demographic...in other words, the way rollover works is that you end up paying for the extra minutes whether you use them or not and you have an entire year to use them...fair and flexible effectively delivers the same cost in the long run b/c the overage minutes are the same price per minute as the alloted minutes...
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I agree that it depends on what type of phone user you are. If you constantly talk and use up your minutes, than rollover would do you no good because you would never have any! If you are someone how uses hardly any minutes one month and then a lot more the next, than rollover would be a good choice. If you hardly ever use your minutes at all, than neither would benefit you. 🤣
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I would think they are both just gimmicks. Demographics? That doesn't have much to do with anything when the end result is merely an impression of, "hey, I'm (customer) getting something for nothing"...
It basically answers the question w/o you having to talk: ie. "Well, that's a shame I bought an 800 minute plan but only use 400 of them every month. I don't want to lower my plan because .45/min is ludicrous. What is a person like me to do?" With Sprint they can drop to a 400 min plan and "flex" it or go with Cingular and save them (mins) for a rainy day... Who knows...
It basically answers the question w/o you having to talk: ie. "Well, that's a shame I bought an 800 minute plan but only use 400 of them every month. I don't want to lower my plan because .45/min is ludicrous. What is a person like me to do?" With Sprint they can drop to a 400 min plan and "flex" it or go with Cingular and save them (mins) for a rainy day... Who knows...
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Well, I'll throw a third option into the equasion, but what it really boils down to is which type of service is going to be better for you. If for instance like someone pointed out, your usage fluctuates, but is consistent upon a certain time frame, I'd prefer rollover. I'd rather have a whole plethra of roll over minutes built up for summer if I could because my winter usage was less heavy, rather than have small overages. However, if my usage stays pretty much consistant all of the time, and all you really need is a back-up plan for those once in a blue moon instances we all know happen like "the blizzard knocked out my home phone, so my cell phone is all I have to rely on" and I'm only going to need to do that for a short time-I'd prefer ...
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Fair and Flexible, definitely.
Early in a contract, before you've built up significant 'rollover' minutes, you're vulnerable to overages. F&F, on the other hand, protects you well from month one.
Early in a contract, before you've built up significant 'rollover' minutes, you're vulnerable to overages. F&F, on the other hand, protects you well from month one.
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