In this article, Randall Stross writes about a phone plan in which a person can use his/her smartphone with unlimited calls, unlimited texting, unlimited data and no contract. First, to draw the readers' attention, the writer begins with a question emphasizing that by paying only $19 a month, one can have unlimited calls, texting, and data. Then he continues by writing about his personal experience with the phone plane. When he first saw the offer, he was amazed, since the company delivered exactly what it advertises. He tells how it is amazing to spend little money and be able to be connected to internet, either at home or at work. Then he ends the essay by some experts' justification of why internet accessing without Wifi is getting chaper and cheaper: they do not want people to use Wifi, because "You will soon realize you shouldn’t have to pay what you’re paying today.”
The essay, at first, seemed to be a propaganda, an advertisement, since the writer wrote about his amazement at the low price of the unlimited call, texting, data, and internet. However, later on, it seemed to inform the readers of why the phone companies are offering the public such good plan in such a low price. In addition to that, another purpose is to inform the readers about the purpose of these phone companies in offering these cheap phone plans. By offering this cheap plan to the people, the workers at phone companies are thinking ahead of the time, predicting what is going to happen, and preventing people from realizing that Wifi is going to be anywhere in the future and they will not need to pay.
My main critic is that the first paragraph seems to be more an anecdote than a proper analysis and "summary" of the article. Besides that, wording is also a bit awkward in the second paragraph when you wrote: "the workers at the phone companies (...)." Other than that, I thought it was very well written and it clearly gives an overall idea of what the article was about and the author's intentions and purpose through it.
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