The Wireless Industry price war. The Third Largest carrier, undercuts the competition by making data cheaper. With more on this, ryan canute son, reporter for the wall street journal. Ryan, great to have you here. What is sprint offering . Theyre offering a promotion right now which is 100 for up to 40 gigabytes of data if you have 10 lines. It starts at 20 big guys of data for four lines which is undercutting at t and verizon by 60 bucks. More data than when what you get on it. Mobile. Gerri look at comparisons. We have great numbers. Sprint coming in at 160. Verizon is at 310. At t, 310. Tmobile, 180 undercutting everybody. Will they give me something extra if i leave my carrier . Right. Theyre also going to pay up to 350 for you to switch, if youre coming from another carrier. Theyre trying to sort of bring themselves more in line with the price points of their carriers. They were more expensive. Sort of key fourline competition point which is most common sort of family plan. But th
tornadic activity in florida. new images right now of the kind of damage being associated with this weather system. our chad myers will be back with more. time now for the help desk where we get answers to your financial questions. with me right now donna risotto a senior editor at money and lynnette fox is a writer. thanks so much for being here with us. our first question is from jeff from michigan and he writes in, i m underwater on my home but no one will help me because i m unemployed. i have paid my mortgage on time, but i ve been told that i could get help if i stop. what should i do? donna, we hear this so often. oh, yeah. it s never a good job to stop paying your mortgage and you know he s in a tough situation where he s unemployed but last year the obama administration did expand some programs to help people like this young man here. and one of the things he can do is apply for a loan modification, which may help him reduce the amount of payments or he can get a suspensio
home mortgage payments but he really needs some good advice do this. and what i recommend as calling housing urban development a hud-vetted counselor with he can do through the making of the homes affordable program. 888-955-hope and also google making homes affordable program and get advice about what s best for his situation but you know the dodge your credit score by stopping, paying on your mortgage is really long term and he wants to try to avoid that if possible. should be some help for people who are making their payments despite their personal situation. sure. next question is from brad from arizona. he says i m 31 years old and i m just now at the stage of being able to save for my future instead of living paycheck to paycheck. i m interested in investing in gold. where should i start, lynnette? you shouldn t start with gold. i can tell you that. i thought mau might say that. sorry to tell you. he s probably seeing this a huge run-up in gold prices lately but gold
you re getting started in inn vesting, gold isn t where you want to start. first if you just stopped living paycheck to paycheck, before you invest anywhere, do two quick things. get an emergency cash system. and then start saving for the long term three to six months work the of your expenses. you need to amass in case you lose a job or in case some other long-term unexpected thing happens. then you start investing. and, again, i d suggest something like mutual funds, index mutual funds, low-cost index mutual funds but i would note get started in invest failing gold. start to put away for your future. if you re not able to do that and then go and think about those high-priced metals. donna, lynnette, thank you so much. if you have a question that you d like to get answered we d love to help you. an e-mail anytime to cnnhelpdesk@cnn.com. [ mom ] can a little bowl of cereal change your life?
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