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 theyre giving more data. That is trying to, that is how theyre trying to differentiate themselves. Gerri if you skip out on your carrier they give you Additional Data . Not just 350 bucks but two gigabytes of data for each line . Up to 10 lines. You could get as much as 40 gigabytes of data. Theyre out there with their deal. I have to ask, ryan what happens tomorrow . Does somebody else come out with another deal, another plan that is even cheaper . Tomorrow sprint says it will make another announcement. Theyre probably going to do something relating to their individual plans. This is what they announced yes, had to do with the family plans. Hard to say whether tmobile or verizon or at t will lower their prices because spin hasnt really been that competitive in prices. They have been more expensive than at t and verizon in the past. So, if everybody starts to switch to sprint, they have been giving up customers for a very long time. Then, maybe they will do some reactionary moves from other carriers. Gerri we can only hope so. Good for consumers, right, if prices grow down. Heres my question, all the deals on date but what about unlimited data . Is that never coming back . That was the hallmark of sprints competitive offering before. It is possible they may continue unlimited data for some of their plans Going Forward but it is hard to tell. 20 gigabytes of data for four lines is a lot of data. Youre not likely to go over that amount. Who knows if there will be some other application. Need it. If you want to watch tv or movie whatever youre doing on the phone, you need all the data make it happen. I want to ask you about root Metrics Research that says, sprint, doesnt really rate when you compare offerings in terms of how good the service is. In fact theyre dead last. So does it make sense to pay for this new plan, to jump from a provider to sprint and then find out, you know, you cant get the movie up or the tv show . They have been undergoing Major Network overhaul for the past several years. Theyre finally feel like getting to end of it. This report out doesnt give a lot of confidence in the Network Although its, it is just the beginning. Sprint said they wanted to compete more on price as soon as they started to see network improvements. So theyre finally hitting that now. Root metrics report looked at the last six months. It may not start to show gains sprint made. Gerri this price war goes back to september 5th, 2012, when tmobile started selling unlimited data plan again. This has been going on for a while. How did consumers make sense of changes . Face it, some of it is a good deal, some of it may be not. It is extremely confusing. Carriers want that. They dont want to make it clear. Wall street journal we have wireless calculator on the website tries to cut through some of the stuff. You have to study the plans to find out what is best value for size of family that you have and amount of date that that you think that you want. Gerri tell you ryan, you did a great job breaking it down. Thanks for coming on the show. Thanks. Gerri last night we told you how Proctor Gamble was set to get rid of over 100 brand, products youre familiar with, ike ivy soaps. Today another staple, this from your breakle, orange juice. It is going away. Mention drinking less than that. Sales fell to lowest level on record. The reason . Florida has been devastated by citrus greening. That is bacteria killing orange trees. It is spread by infected insect experts say came here from china. It is widespread in many citrusproducing states from the south and west, all over the west. Another reason for the sale falloff in oj sales, consumers have more choice. I caught up with david steele the florida Florida Department s and in middle after brand new Marketing Campaign to try to get americans to drink orange juice again. So lucky youre here in new york city. You have a big crowd trying to drink orange juice. Why did you come to new york . New york is magical market not just here in the United States but globally. This is wonderful to bring a little bit of florida sunshine and goodness of florida orange juice to consumers who here in new york. Gerri why are consumers drinking less orange juice. Theyre drinking less florida orange juice because there are less florida orange juice to drink. Theyre consuming every drop we produce. They have lot more options but right now our Biggest Issue is supply. The amount of orange juice being produced the least in 29 years in florida. This is sort of unprecedented for the state. What kind of impact is it having on industry and employment in the industry . Well it is definitely had a devastating impact. On the other hand the history of the florida citrus business is one of resilience. And so, for decades they have face things like hurricanes and freezes and blight and they have always found a way to come back. They will come back from this as well. Right now they are spending a lot of money maintaining crops and finding a way to be productive in the face of greening. We received 125 million from the federal government for research. That for many of us in many respects is a light at the end of the tunnel. Gerri is this bacteria ruining groves that have to be replanted . At present some groves are completely decimated. What is more common it will make trees less productive. So farmers have been going to Great Lengths to keep those trees alive and increase their yield. Gerri is there a solution to this . There will be. I cant tell you what it will be yet. There will be. Innovation made impact in agriculture, not just in florida but across the country. Gerri so we dont have a solution to this bacteria from which my understanding it came over from china somehow . We dont the ultimate solution yet. Theyre seeing some treatment efforts really show some promise. That is one of the reasons that some of our growers will have their crop go up this year. Gerri a lot of people out there say folks are not drinking orange screws because there are so many options out there right now. A lot of competition in the Grocery Store and they dont like sugar. There is much sugar. How do you respond. We like to emphasize the fact that there is no sugar added in 100 florida orange juice. There are myths out there what might get added through production. There is zero sugar added to 100 orange juice. It is is dell likelous tasting. It has over 100 of recommended vitamin c. Nothing like it. Often imitated, never duplicated. Thanks to david for information on orange juice. Here with more on the personal impact of record low sales of orange juice is david roth of bob roths new river groves. He joins from us davie, florida. Great to see you. I understand we had to bring you in from the grove because it was so hot outside. Is that right. Thats right. Welcome to sunny south florida. We have plenty of florida oranges down here ready to go. Gerri im hoping you heard david steeles interview. I wonder if you agree with him that these groves can be saved . That they will actually find a solution to this pest that is eating up all of these oranges . You know, i really do believe well find a solution to this problem. This is the not first problem florida citrus faced and come out on top but probably wont be the last but i do know when we do come out well be on top. Florida produces some of the best florida orange juice anywhere in the world. Gerri certainly popular florida orange juice but i have to ask you a broader question here. A lot of people are talking about this. Sure. Gerri is orange juice something people dont want to drink anymore . It used to be a staple of the american breakfast table but people are drinking other things . Do you think you have to sell this product all over again . Well, you know, we dont really need to sell the product all over again. We need to remind everybody on how nutritious florida orange juice is. Florida orange juice has all the vitamin c you will possibly need. I have to agree with my counterpart david, it does, it is all natural. It is a fresh product that Mother Nature developed just for us. For us here in florida we enjoy our florida orange juice. Nothing like a glass of fresh florida orange juice. Gerri i have another question before you guzzle down too much orange juice. Sure. Gerri tell me about your personal story. I know you had the groves and previous infestation. You lost some of them. Youre losing more now. What is the state of your business . Have you had to lay people off . I hear youre doing even more things now . Youre introducing new lines. Tell me what is going on with your business. Were very fortunate down here in south florida a lot of citrus always came in early. Were able to experiment with Different Things like homemade key lime pies. We make one of the best key lime pies in the country. It was my mothers recipe. Weve been selling the key lime pie for 35 years. Im a Third Generation farmer in davie. Were a little different in south florida than our counterparts in port st. Lucie and indian river where we get some of our floridas fine citrus. We have to keep things going yearround. Between the fresh squeezed florida orange juice and Coconut Water comes right from our coconuts were able to stay here in davie and survive and thrive and hopefully my children will be able to take this over from us as well. Gerri youve been smart. Youve diversified a mill different ways. Key lime pie sound pretty darn good. David, thanks for coming on the show tonight. It is the best. Gerri absolute pleasure having you here, thanks. Thank you. Enjoy your florida orange juice. Gerri yes, sir. I certainly will. Now we want to know what you think, here is our question tonight. Do you drink orange juice in the morning . Are you still on it . Log on to gerriwillis. Com. Vote on the righthand side of the screen. I will show results at end of tonights show. We have more, more to come this hour including your voice. Your voice is important to us. Thats why during the show we want you to facebook me or tweet me gerriwillisfbn. Or send me an email at gerriwillis. Com. At the bottom of the hour i will read your tweets and your emails. First 100 in new york city. A different thing than in mississippi. We look where in the country where 100 bill stretches the most and the least. You are going to want to hear this. Stay with us. Shingles affected me tremendously as a pilot. 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You get a relative sense of this. Alan, how did you put the numbers together and what did you take into consideration . Sure. Bea divisiondivision of the government compiles this data. They started it recently and what they do, is they take the sorts of goose that every american would buy, some food, some housing, some clothing, even a little bit of booze, and they look at the prices of those goods and in different local at thises, and the results are that prices are much higher someplace than others. So your dollar will go farther in some states than others. Gerri look at the bad performers. This is where your money goes the least far, it is worst the least and let me see people the least. D. C. , hawaii, new york of course, were always there, new jersey and california. Alan, what is going on there . The major factor is urbanization. People and businesses coalesce in a large cities, there is coalescing in dense land. New jersey is most densely populated state. Land is also scarce in california and surprisingly hawaii. Gerri let me ask you this, my friend. Im looking at these place, and i see these are places where taxes are high. Isnt that part of the story . That could be part of the story. There are also a lot of geographical factors that explain why the map might look this way. So, taxes could be a factor but it is a little bit hard to determine. Gerri hmmm. Lets look where 100 was worth the most. Tell us the states where your money goes far . There youre looking at states like arkansas, missouri, mississippi, and what those states have in common is a lot of land, a lost land to spare. And theyre also in places that it is convenient to ship to. Theyre on the gulf coast near the mississippi river. Gerri convenient to ship to, therefore shipping costs are low. Thats interesting. Right. Gerri one of the things i found out is so interesting the comparison of kansas. Explain the comparison of new york and kansas if you were a completely rational economic being where you would live. So an interesting result of adjusting for purchasing power parody, is that kansas ends up a little bit richer than new york and this would come as a surprise to a lot of people. People who associate new york with its high incomes, with wall street. But, kansas is also very productive states. Their incomes are high in general. Even beyond that they have a lot of land. So, it is much easier to go out and live the Old School American dream in a place like lenxa or lee wood than to live in place like scarsdale where the houses cost a lot more. As for where you should live, that is really up to you because sometimes places like new york offer opportunities that kansas cant and vice versa. Gerri there are opportunities in kansas that arent offered in new york too, i would have to say that. Alan, thanks for coming on. Good to see you. Fascinating numbers. Thank you. 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We give a average for typical middle class family. In northeast, believe it or not, middle income or upper income families the numbers are a lot higher, 400,000 plus from raising a kid from birth. Gerri there are morals to this story. Get the heck out of northeast. Regional differences make a big impact. Out in the midwest, southwest, et cetera, as little as 155,000 or so. I think it boils down to three main areas. Housing, child care and education, sort of grouped together and then fo