BillShrink will help you find the best cell phone plans

Posted April 15, 2008 at 10:35 PM by Arnold Zafra

Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Mobile, Web, Websites

Startup BillShrink aims to assist cell phone users in finding the cheapest available plan with various add-ons to suit your individual personal needs. With so many cell phone plans available on the market, users often find themselves ending up with something that they don’t actually need. Often times wasting tons of money for add-ons they paid for and will not actually use. BillShrink hopes to address that problem and aims to help users avoid spending money they do not need to.

So, how does BillShrink plan to help users minimize cost on cell phone plans? By analyzing individual usages and needs. Users will be asked to enter their cell phone number and password associated with the account. BillShrink’s technology will then analyze usage patterns of that particular mobile account, taking into consideration the most-called contacts and networks, user’s average phone bills, calls per minute made by users, and some personal information such as user’s home zip code. After analyzing these data, BillShrink will then present a comparative list of less expensive plans available for the users.

In addition, BillShrink also presents users with a graphical representation of cell phone carriers’ strength relative to a user’s location. Using Google Maps, a “commute rating” is given which analyzes connection strength over a calculated route.

The BillShrink website lists various mobile carriers in the US such as AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. So, its recommendation would depend on the carriers’ various mobile data plans. If you are too busy to look for the best cell phone plans that would suit your needs, then BillShrink may be a useful service. But if you worry about privacy, you may want to pass up on this one. And yes, BillShrink is a free service and does not earn from advertising. It claims to generate income through commission from partner mobile carriers. This scheme might actually bring BillShrink the dough to pay the bills but one can’t help but wonder whether this would not affect the suggestions it gives to users.

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