Upgrades

Hello and welcome to Before You Install!  In this episode, we talk about how cell phone upgrades have changed.  Phones used to cost around $200-$300 for a new phone.  Today they cost from $600 to $1000+.  Phones today are another monthly subscription for us, the consumer.

Aside from phones, cell plans have changed too.  It used to be wireless providers charged for minutes and text messages, with data being a flat rate.  Now it’s data and phone payments that are the bill, while minutes and messages are flat rate.

These changes primarily derived from the cause and effect of T-mobile’s “Un-carrier” campaign that was launched in 2013.  Join me, Buddy Gregory as we take a look at what happened to the world of phone upgrades.  The show notes for this episode can be found at https://beforeyouinstall.com/upgrade.