Impact sounds like a new carrier and it's likely people will experience dropped calls and loss of service like they did with T mobile before it expanded on it's ability to handle demand. If T mobile raises rates that high a lot of people will probably switch over to that new Impact, myself I intend to stick to a major carrier as I like to be able to make calls from anywhere I go, whether some remote location or down my basement. I still have the old qwerty board phone with a tiny screen that I've never been able to figure out how to use the internet on....thanks goodness because I am addicted to blogging so I am limited to doing such when home. I was going to retire the old phone after it got a big black blob inside the screen so I couldn't fully see text or pictures I was taking but as mysteriously as the blob appeared it has mysteriously been fading away...nine years and still going strong......it also happen to be free after the rebate, can't complain to much about that.