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If you buy phones resale, don't upgrade every 2 years or buy an android phone for $3-400, those assumptions are way off.
If you want a new iPhone every 2 years, the two year might make sense for some people.
If the queen had balls she'd be the king.
You're telling me my assumptions are way off, but you're okay assuming he's willing to buy a used phone and then keep an already used phone longer than the common two year upgrade cycle. If he's willing to buy used phones, then he can get a new old-model phone less than the price shown in my scenario, possibly even free, depending on the phone.
In my scenario, each phone is $31.25 per month on Next, so if you don't upgrade after two years, you are saving $62.50 on your bill. But on a two year contract, with the same phone, the cost for two phones is about $29/month, so your savings on Next are $33/month after two years, which would take about a year to recoup the savings on the Next plan.
I've already stated previously in this thread that I think that if you're going to keep your phone longer than two years, Next may be the better option. If you're going to keep phones 3 years or more, then Next is probably the better choice in almost all situations. Also, from what I have seen, Next also generally becomes a benefit for families with 3 or more phones on a plan, or if you have two phones each on a $30 data plan (unlimited or 3GB) and family texting plan and would only need 10GB of data or less on a shared plan.