Many businesses realize the benefits of having multiple services with customers. My insurance company gives me healthy discounts for having both my home and my cars insured with them. My cable company gives me a healthy discount for having both my cable TV and my home phone service with them. You'd think that mobile carriers would offer similar discounts for customers with multiple services, but not a single one I could find will do that. The appearance of tablets on the scene makes this an even greater oversight, as customers are less likely to get a tablet data plan if they already have a phone plan, especially lacking a discount.
Perhaps Sprint will kick in a last-minute effort to keep me on its list of accounts when I drop by to cancel the data line. It would be nice to see them go to at least that much effort. It won't matter though, because at that point I will have done all the considering I am willing to do about the move. It will be too little, too late.
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