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Are Service Provider Netbook Bundles a Good Deal?
Topic Started: Oct 16 2009, 08:49 AM (44 Views)
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Are Service Provider Netbook Bundles a Good Deal?
When you buy a subsidized netbook from a wireless service provider, the money you save on the device is a pittance compared to the data fees you'll pay over the next two years. But buying a netbook and a data plan unbundled is even more expensive.
Mark Sullivan and Patrick Miller, PC World

You can get a deeply discounted netbook from either AT&T or Verizon, as long as you're willing to sign up for a two-year data plan; but no matter which service provider's netbook deal you choose, the price will be about the same. We saw similar price parity when we conducted our cost-of-ownership study of popular smartphones.
We discovered the similarity in bottom-line prices after examining the two-year costs of ownership of various (subsidized) netbooks sold by Verizon and AT&T (Sprint and T-Mobile don't yet offer such deals). The wireless broadband carriers began selling netbooks only this year, and they have adopted a pricing model similar to the one they use for selling cell phones and smartphones.

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Read more at PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article/173698/are_service_provider_netbook_bundles_a_good_deal.html
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In Telus territory in western Canada, there appear to be some decent bundles. People get a pretty good "free" computer for signing up for internet service on a 3 year deal. It seems to cost about $10 a month. There may be some catches - it means taking the highest speed service which may be more than you need, and it may prevent you from switching to a new product that gives higher speed for less money.
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It means that your contract cannot be broken and if it is, there is a stiff penalty. I learned a long time ago that nothing is free ... one way of another we have to pay.
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