If you're jonesing for a netbook and you live in the States, Sprint
and Best Buy will sell you one for the low, low price of 99¢.
...
The catch is that the netbook - a Compaq Mini 110c-1040DX - must be
purchased with a two-year Sprint 3G wireless-broadband service
contract that runs $60 per month for 5GB of data downloads. Add to
that $1,440 the sales tax you'll need to pay on the netbook's $389.99
list price, and you'll be shelling out just south of fifteen hundred
bucks.
...
If the Sprint deal doesn't attract you, Best Buy will hook you up
with AT&T or Verizon instead, but they'll charge you $199 up front
for the hardware.
AT&T offers a 200MB-per-month plan for $40 - that'll run you about
$1,160 over the two-year contract. The company also has a $60/5GB
plan, plus other plans that include subsidized netbooks.
Verizon's entry-level 3G plan gives you 250MB per month at $40 and
matches Sprint and AT&T at $60 for 5GB. Verizon is offering its own
netbook-bundling plan, but if you want to skip the netbook part of
the deal they'll be happy to set you up with one of a half-dozen 3G
cards and dongles.
[MORE]
Details at Best Buy:
<http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat182100050001&type=category>
Notably missing is T-Mobile.
--
Best regards,
John <http:/navasgroup.com>
If the iPhone is really so impressive,
why do iFans keep making excuses for it?
Cyrus Afzali wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:27:01 -0700, John Navas
> <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/07/sprint_subsidized_netbook/>
>>
>> If you're jonesing for a netbook and you live in the States, Sprint
>> and Best Buy will sell you one for the low, low price of 99¢.
>
> This is nothing new. Verizon's been giving them away to new FIOS
> subscribers who sign 2-year agreements for some time. That deal
> requires no other commitment whatsoever, although the phone company
> being the phone company, they're still hellbent on long-term contracts
> that cable doesn't require. One of these days, they'll figure out
> that's why they're an also-ran to cable.
But I think the cable companies are testing the waters. I ordered
Comcast "business class" <cough> Internet for a location and in order to
get the $89 advertised price without paying I think a $199 installation
they required a two year contract.
John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in
news:esa9559thvslf7oanrh0upvds7fd200ppk@4ax.com:
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/07/sprint_subsidized_netbook/>
>
> If you're jonesing for a netbook and you live in the States, Sprint
> and Best Buy will sell you one for the low, low price of 99¢.
>
> ...
>
> The catch is that the netbook - a Compaq Mini 110c-1040DX - must be
> purchased with a two-year Sprint 3G wireless-broadband service
> contract that runs $60 per month for 5GB of data downloads. Add to
> that $1,440 the sales tax you'll need to pay on the netbook's
> $389.99 list price, and you'll be shelling out just south of
> fifteen hundred bucks.
>
> ...
>
> If the Sprint deal doesn't attract you, Best Buy will hook you up
> with AT&T or Verizon instead, but they'll charge you $199 up front
> for the hardware.
>
> AT&T offers a 200MB-per-month plan for $40 - that'll run you about
> $1,160 over the two-year contract. The company also has a $60/5GB
> plan, plus other plans that include subsidized netbooks.
>
> Verizon's entry-level 3G plan gives you 250MB per month at $40 and
> matches Sprint and AT&T at $60 for 5GB. Verizon is offering its own
> netbook-bundling plan, but if you want to skip the netbook part of
> the deal they'll be happy to set you up with one of a half-dozen 3G
> cards and dongles.
>
> [MORE]
>
> Details at Best Buy:
> <http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....at182100050001
&type=cat
> egory>
>
> Notably missing is T-Mobile.
>
Before you screw up and sign your life away for this piece of shit
netbook, notice IT'S HOBBLED LIKE THE SELLPHONES ARE!
For instance, there's a HOLE where the ETHERNET jack is supposed to be!
SELLphone users don't need Ethernet connections.
Another SELLphone company attempt at user controls.....
Sad, very sad, indeed......It's a company-special piece of pure crap!
--
-----
Larry
Noone will be safe until the last lawyer has been strangled by the
entrails of the last cleric.
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:06:33 -0400, Cyrus Afzali <pnsmnyv@lnubb.pbz>
wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:27:01 -0700, John Navas
><spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/07/sprint_subsidized_netbook/>
>>
>> If you're jonesing for a netbook and you live in the States, Sprint
>> and Best Buy will sell you one for the low, low price of 99¢.
>
>This is nothing new. Verizon's been giving them away to new FIOS
>subscribers who sign 2-year agreements for some time. That deal
>requires no other commitment whatsoever, although the phone company
>being the phone company, they're still hellbent on long-term contracts
>that cable doesn't require. One of these days, they'll figure out
>that's why they're an also-ran to cable.
Thats strange I see Shaquille Oneill in commercials from Comcast
pushing a 2 year contract. "Locked and Loaded"
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:41:05 -0400, Ron <ron.clifford@peoplepc.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:06:33 -0400, Cyrus Afzali <pnsmnyv@lnubb.pbz>
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:27:01 -0700, John Navas
>><spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/07/sprint_subsidized_netbook/>
>>>
>>> If you're jonesing for a netbook and you live in the States, Sprint
>>> and Best Buy will sell you one for the low, low price of 99¢.
>>
>>This is nothing new. Verizon's been giving them away to new FIOS
>>subscribers who sign 2-year agreements for some time. That deal
>>requires no other commitment whatsoever, although the phone company
>>being the phone company, they're still hellbent on long-term contracts
>>that cable doesn't require. One of these days, they'll figure out
>>that's why they're an also-ran to cable.
>
>
> Thats strange I see Shaquille Oneill in commercials from Comcast
> pushing a 2 year contract. "Locked and Loaded"
Don't laugh: under that 2-year contract the monthly price
for the service we currently bottom-line at over $100/mo for
drops to roughly $55/mo the first year, $65/mo the second.
As there's no competitor we can use anyway, it's harmless for
us to accept such a contract -- we're locked in even without one.
In article <IiI5m.6821$j84.4885@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>, scharf.steven@geemail.com says...
>
> Ron wrote:
>
> > Thats strange I see Shaquille Oneill in commercials from Comcast
> > pushing a 2 year contract. "Locked and Loaded"
>
> Why did Comcast hire Ben Stein for their commercials. I make it a habit
> to not buy anything promoted by pathological liars.
Ben Stein is funny as hell. I wasn't aware that he's a pathological liar
- what makes you say that?
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