Sprint, AT&T, Verizon...and Wal-Mart??

Apparently, Wal-Mart doesn’t think they sell enough things at the cheapest rate so they have decided to go into the cell phone market. Their plans are aimed towards the lower tier of income who still want unlimited talk and text but cannot afford such a plan on carriers like AT&T and Verizon. Wal-Mart seems to have done it because their unlimited talk and unlimited text plan is only $45 a month, and the best part? NO CONTRACT! Even the current budget cell carrier, T-mobile, has its price set at $60 for its unlimited talk and unlimited text plan without a contract. AT&T and Verizon are much, much more expensive at $70 and $90 respectively and they both require contracts! Your probably think "This is too good to be true!", well you're half right.

The unlimited talk and unlimited text plan is truly only $45 but, because there is no contract, the upfront cost of the actual phone will be much more expensive than usual. Also, you won't be able to get any of the fancy phones that AT&T and Verizon carry such as the iPhone 4 and the multitude of Droids but even if Wal-Mart somehow manages to snag Droid for their network you wouldn’t be able to afford it. Why you ask? Because the data rates are outrageous! Wal-Mart is charging $40 per gigabyte of data used where AT&T only charges $25 for 2 gigabytes and T-mobile charges $30 for unlimited data! But I guess since Wal-mart is aiming for the lower tier of the market (low income families and teens having to pay for their own cell service) they probably wouldn’t want to pay for data anyways.