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Inflation. You can be confident that these guarantees won't last unless not only are they in writing but they are backed by independent financial insurance. Same with any life membership. It is very unlikely that they are actually charging enough to continue the service for life and so they are likely going to be forced to do something about it at some point. Often that something is bankruptcy.

Still, it sucks.

Class Action Lawsuit is going to some lucky lawyers rich.

I use a prepaid at&t plan. Pay for the year at once. Decent service, I think like a 16g data cap. Comes to 25 a month. I'm happy with it

I'm still on tracfone (cheap plan) and feel it's also going to get axed

When I'm back stateside I just grab one of those monthly unlimited sims for like $35 and forget about it. Dang, you could probably get away with that $10 Xfinity wifi if you have a voip number although coverage probably isn't amazing.

Guess I'm switching to C-Spire.

I've been a T-Mobile customer for over 10 years, but this isn't acceptable.

In the aughts, I had accumulated about ~~$30~~ $30K in debt, but managed it through consolidation programs, and got it down to about 3%.

Then the subprime mortgage crisis happened, and my creditors said sorry, but we're fucking you over no matter what the contract says. Your interest rate is 12% and feel lucky we don't raise it again.

Apparently companies will do that. I didn't pay them at all and just waited seven years to wait out statute of limitations.