Do you think unlimited calling plan would be the market future?

In the Philippines, the mobile phone carriers launched their products and offered free unlimited calls and texts but only to the same network. At first people were skeptical because it required some effort to remember if you are calling the same network or not. But when people noticed the savings, the phone carriers stopped the offers. Nowadays, they offer this service to penetrate new markets. I think this will be the trend in the US. But I think of this service as kind of like the buffet line, where you pay a big sum to eat the same amount of food. But this is good for families who can keep in touch with each other all day without minding the bill.

I do not think that limited calling minutes are going to last. There is just too much compitition these days for the mobile phone market.

Actually, I've been on unlimited plan for a while. I got on unlimited with t-mobile when it was $99.99/month but it was only for talking & messages. Right now, they have a plan where it's $79.99/month & it includes unlimited everything, talking, messaging & in my case, blackberry plan. The whole thing comes out to about $93 & change. Of course the final price is gonna be different depending on what state you live in due to tax & fee differences. I do believe t-mobile got into it because shortly after t-mobile came out with unlimited talking & message plan for $99.99/month, Sprint came out with unlimited talking, messages & data plan for same price. I truely believe little bit of healthy competition is good for people & economy. More & more people are switching to unlimited plans around where I live & among my friends. Some of them went from $60 some dollars a month to $90 some dollars a month solely because of that unlimited feature. I do agree that eventually, everyone will be offering unlimited plan for cheaper price.

I would have to say that only corporate users or buisness owners would benefit from this do to most family and friends have the same carrier so your minutes are not even being touched now if your the 3000 and 10000-15000 minute user unlimited would could hurt the carrier plus those metro and trac look at were u get service if you never leave your town you may be good but when i travel i need coverage everywere(underlined) yae sorry for the grammer and it may have been a little mixed up but im sure your all smart enough to get it

Yes, with the development of some key technology, unlimited calling plan would be the market future.

Although nowadays, some companies have taken some measures to promote their contracted plan with limited calling minutes strongly. But still, there are some that are planing to promote their un;imited calling products. For the long run, the unlimited calling plan would be the biggest trend for our mobile phone market for the keen competition, not only in the U.S, but also arond the world.

We are lucky because we can still see the trend of our cellphone market. Happy myLotting!

I actually strongly disagree. Today, people are using texting as a means of communication more than phone calls. I did a research project on it once, and it has shown that over the past four years, there has been a 514 percent increase in the use of texting. Our society is depending on it to communicate with one another, but since words will never be as meaningful as the voice that speaks them, people are actually losing touch with each other, but may not realize that. I believe that unlimited texting plans will be used much more than unlimited calling plans.

Unlimited calling plan might be a thing of the future. But this is not going to help all the customers. In India also two companies are giving such kind of plans, but it is only to their own networks, of the two,, one has been increasing their prices every month, and now it is 3 times more than what it was when it was introduced.The other is still sticking to the introductory prices till now. All these are in pre paid plans.
For post paid connections nothing like this has come, but we have a closed user group plan, which is used mainly by the commercial establishments, where the calls are free between these CUG customers.
As another member has already written, the future will be on all three, that is unlimited calling, SMS, and browsing.