Cell Plans - Pitting One Against Another ?

TXGreyhoundGuy - 2010-02-01 9:55 PM My wife and I have been with AT&T/Cingular since 2004.  The first line is $60 and has 800 minutes.  The second line splits those minutes, and costs an extra $10 more - $70 total.  We added unlimited texting for $30 because we always went WAY over our texting limit.  (We probably send 250+ texts per month... each!)  So we're up to $100 a month.  With taxes and such, we're up to about $112.  At that high of a rate, we still don't have Internet.

I've looked at Sprint and seen that they have an Everything Data plan for $130 that includes 1500 minutes for the two lines, unlimited texting and unlimited Internet.  While this is a great plan and a great rate, we'd really rather stay with AT&T.

So has anyone ever had luck calling their current provider to say, "I can get this deal through this other provider" and had luck getting a matching deal?

-Joel

PS - The big thing keeping us from switching is that we'd have to pay for new phones ($80 for a Palm Pre, and probably $80 for a new Blackberry), plus $36 per line for activations.  That's $160 for the phones and $72 for the activations.  So there's $232 that I'd rather not spend.