Buffalo Boy's Blog

I saw the deal on Channel 4 recently where you could get a free Blackberry

So, right from the start I am not interested in changing my plan, however I looked into the deal and went to the softwares homepage and in order to get a Blackberry T-Mobile REQUIRES you to purchase into their web service which runs about $30-35 bucks per month....um thanks but no thanks.

Lets see, if both my wife and I did that deal our unlimited plan would go from $79 per month or around there to somewhere in the $140 per month area plus we are still paying for our Time Warner Roadrunner service which is $50 per month......thats $190 per month for phone and internet....

Sorry, Im sticking to a phone that does two things, dials and rings. I don't even text that much to begin with never mind texting while driving but the thought of a new Blackberry to catch me up with the technologically elite sounded kinda fun for a minute especially if it really was a free Blackberry, but its not, they get ya by forcing you to add to your current contract which get me right back to where I was, cell phone companies in the scheme of things rank right down there with the scum of the earth including health insurance companies, Joe Leiberman and coorporate CEO's on Wallstreet.

For a technology that has been around for a good long while now the price sure hasn't gone down much. This deal wasn't about preventing texting, it was about luring a lot of gullible people into adding to their plans by forcing them to get internet if they wanted the free Blackberry.