Noel King

You can turn your expensive wireless present into a huge wireless savings future, ghost of Christmas, whatever joke there, by switching to Mint.

You can shop Mint Unlimited plans at mintmobile.com.

That's mintmobile.com.

This is a limited time offer.

Let's do a little math.

Upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months or $180 for 12 months.

That if you break it down is $15 per month.

Taxes and fees are extra, guys, and this is the initial plan term only.

Greater than 35 GB may slow when network is busy.

Capable device required.

Availability, speed, and coverage will vary.

See mintmobile.com.

This is Today Explained.

In the first half of the show, we talked about surveillance pricing, companies charging you more because they think or know that you will pay more.

And we also heard that the FTC, which protects us from monopolies and other unfair trade practices, launched a probe into this practice.

Where does that stand?

Okay, so they didn't have very long to do their investigation, but they did have some time.

Do we know what they found?

Do we know how widespread this is?

We know that Instacart is doing it.