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Originally Posted by amazinmets73
This doesn't seem as good a promotion as the 200 dollars for a 600+ retail phone with a 2 year contract that's offered by other carriers, but it's better than nothing.
The decision to do the Jump program or not is kind of a separate thing. Regarding the $200 phone+contract vs full price phone model, it mostly evens out. A while ago when I was deciding to switch to Tmo from AT&T, the full price phone + cheaper Tmo service was actually cheaper overall than the discounted phone + more expensive AT&T service.
Recently, I did a similar comparison with discount+contract vs no contract on AT&T (they now offer no contract like Tmo), and it's more or less the same.