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On 2007-07-14, Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:

> I think the model should change to a monthly discount for contract, sort
> of like a magazine subscription- Reader's Digest is $4 if I pick it up
> from the newsstand, but $2/issue if I commit to a year's subscription.

That's also something Sprint used to do. I initially signed up with Sprint
in Mentor, Ohio, in 2000, and paid $10/month extra for the privilege of not
having a contract. Once we determined that the phone worked everywhere we
needed, I locked myself into a contract and lost the $10/month surcharge.