Are you serious?? Those people do everything in their power to manipulate and use psychology to get money from you, via technicalities. And you’re saying it’s unethical to do the same to them?
Everything, down to the fact how they allot you minutes that you either don’t use or have to pay penalties if you go over, is calculated to get money from you. You’re really naive.
I’d try to just lower your plan to bare minimums. I know ATT will let me go up and down in contracts. Take off Internet Access, Text Messaging, all the extras, and drop to the cheapest shared plan you can find for the duration of the plan.
[del]They lay it all out for you beforehand. If you don’t take the time to understand the system (or worse, knowingly sign up thinking you can get away with it later via incessant whining or media blackmail), that doesn’t make you enlightened or saintly. What is this, 3rd-grade playground politics? “He started it!” is no excuse to stoop to the same level.
Don’t like it? Go with something else. Another carrier? MVNOs? Prepaid? VOIP?[/del]
Then again, on second thought, it’s just business. Everyone’s an asshole in business.
Are you serious?? “Those people” are in the business of exchanging service for money. To the point that they even provide you with a contract of what services will be provided for your money. They break it down for you further by clearly giving you limits on that service. You, the consumer, then choose to get sucked in to this awful manipulation by signing the presented contract and agreeing to the terms in it.
So who’s the naive one?
Don’t like those terms? There’s another company. Don’t like those? Go with prepaid, or VOIP, or even nothing. But if you don’t want to abide by those terms (they sure will), then don’t sign a contract.
Oh, and no, even if they were some big meanie-headed company out to manipulate you and steal your money, two wrongs don’t make a right. Sometimes they do, but I can’t agree with it here. You -always- know what you’re getting into when you sign a cell contract.