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Republic Wireless announces new Refund Plans

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Like so many wireless carriers, Republic Wireless is joining the parade in moving away from unlimited data plans and is shifting to a business model based on users only paying for what they actually use. The new Refund Plan options Republic announced today provide a refund to customers for any high-speed data they paid for but ended up not using during a month.

The plans are similar to recent moves by T-Mobile and AT&T to let customers carryover unused data to a future month or other period of time. Google’s Project Fi plans to only charge customers for actual data usage as well instead of forcing consumers to select a block of data. Republic’s Senior Vice President Jon Schniepp sees more competition on the part of wireless carriers to compete on actual data usage and he believes Republic “spurred some of that.”

Republic has been testing the Refund Plans with around 2,000 customers and they have found the typical customer ends up paying about $14.88 per month, which is a drop of about $5 for a typical customer. However, customers who use more than 2GB of cellular data in a month could see their bills go up. Currently Republic’s unlimited 4G plan costs $40 per month. For that same price, the new Refund Plan provides 2GB of high-speed data and overages run $15 per GB. All of the plans provide unlimited calls and texts.

Republic says current customers who have unlimited data plans and who want to keep them can do so. New customers will have to choose from one of the new Refund Plans.

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source: Republic Wireless
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