Prepaid Access to Postpaid Plans + Solving Max Overage Dilemna
My big annoyance with carriers is the lack of access for prepaid users to postpaid plans. I'm not talking about subsidizes, I'm talking about why prepaid users are subject to often more comprehensively expensive and feature-lacking selection of plans.
If we were talking about Telus, looking at their prepaid selection is completely lacking in offering any daytime minute and free evening + weekend selection of plans instead only offering pay-per-use daytime and the choice of purchasing evening + weekend add-on. Some users like myself like the bill-shock security that prepaid offers but it is appalling to have very unfavourable access to inferior plans.
Allowing prepaid users equal access to postpaid plans can also easily solve any max overage issues since the maximum a prepaid user tops up can only be deducted from any charges and not a random and often high figure like Telus' $200. A great innovation is from Mobilicity and their MyWallet idea. It allows for the carrier, in this instance Mobilicity, to only be allowed to charge their customer their monthly fee and if the user adds funds to their MyWallet then only those funds are accessible to pay-per-use/overage. For example if I only add $10 to MyWallet, if I'm all of sudden roaming excessively, only $10 can be used out of my account and no excess charges on the consumer side.
