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Carrier Just moved from Sprint to Verizon

Sup3rknova

Sup3rknova

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Feb 11, 2010
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Riverside, CA
Ordered the 5c for my wife last night I will get a 5s for myself. New to Verizon. Loved Sprints unlimited but speed was stupid bad. Havent been on capped data in a long time. I get worried about overages. My wife uses on average maybe 3/4 of a GB. I use about 1.5/2GB. For now I choose the 6GB shared plan to be safe but I can lower it, plus I get a nice 17% discount from my employer. Whats everyone elses GB use? Should I be worried? LOL I dont stream music outside of my home WIFI or stream movies.
 
Congrats, you moved to the superior network. I will say that coming from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5 my data usage did approx. double because of the LTE data speeds. Obviously your results may be different, but that is what happened to me. I am a "power user" i guess and I used 3GB on 3g and when I got LTE I used about 6-7 GB.
 
AppleFan91 said:
Congrats, you moved to the superior network. I will say that coming from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5 my data usage did approx. double because of the LTE data speeds. Obviously your results may be different, but that is what happened to me. I am a "power user" i guess and I used 3GB on 3g and when I got LTE I used about 6-7 GB.
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So if you load a webpage using LTE or 3G the usage is more? I dont understand. Or do you mean since its faster you actually used it more?
 
Sup3rknova said:
So if you load a webpage using LTE or 3G the usage is more? I dont understand. Or do you mean since its faster you actually used it more?
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Volume of data is same regardless of the speed. Since its quicker to stream, you might watch more youtube vids as opposed to watching 2 clips and be done since it was so slow to load while on Sprint. If your habit of data usage doesn't change, then your data usage won't change.
 
Yeah I am looking to switch from sprint to either att or verizon as well having data and text problems in my area (South Florida). I am going have to pay etf for 12months.

Anyone know if you are about to go over your data does att or verizon notify you as a warning?
 
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Volume of data changes with speed for audio and video. Watching a 1 hour low quality show on Netflix on 3G uses way less data than a 1 hour show streamed in HD to your device. Same with YouTube videos. Higher bit rates equal more data.
 
Congrats. I'm also switching from Sprint and moving to T-Mobile. It's been a year of H$LL with Sprint!! T-Mobile has excellent HSPA+/LTE coverage where I am. my coworker was getting 20mbps down with 2-3 bars of T-mo LTE inside our building which even weakens the signal!
 
mdcosta911 said:
Congrats. I'm also switching from Sprint and moving to T-Mobile. It's been a year of H$LL with Sprint!! T-Mobile has excellent HSPA+/LTE coverage where I am. my coworker was getting 20mbps down with 2-3 bars of T-mo LTE inside our building which even weakens the signal!
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I get the same speeds on Sprint with 2-3 bars of LTE.
 
Sup3rknova said:
So if you load a webpage using LTE or 3G the usage is more? I dont understand. Or do you mean since its faster you actually used it more?
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No, honestly I think it was because, I know this sounds cheesy, but because the data was faster, it was more enjoyable to use the phone on the internet. So I use it more. I rarely stream music or watch videos, but I just used it more.
 
Sup3rknova said:
Ordered the 5c for my wife last night I will get a 5s for myself. New to Verizon. Loved Sprints unlimited but speed was stupid bad. Havent been on capped data in a long time. I get worried about overages. My wife uses on average maybe 3/4 of a GB. I use about 1.5/2GB. For now I choose the 6GB shared plan to be safe but I can lower it, plus I get a nice 17% discount from my employer. Whats everyone elses GB use? Should I be worried? LOL I dont stream music outside of my home WIFI or stream movies.
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As a current Sprint customer I'm amazed you could even get 4GB in a month on those 3G speeds.
 
Best thing i did was leave sprint. Having unlimited data is nice but what good is it if you can't use it. Have verizon now and can use my phone.
 
Sup3rknova said:
Everyone has explained it. Thanks! I may use it slightly more. But I doubt anymore than what I already do.
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This is not your first rodeo, you should know, on average what your usage is. The carrier gives you that information right?
 
I'm usually at about 80% of my 2 GB but I never turn wifi off so I'm always connected at work and home. iOS 7 has definitely upped my usage, though. Don't know why or how but it's definitely since iOS 7.
 
Not sure if this is helpful or not but I am grandfathered on a verizon unlimited account and with LTE I am using 2-3 GB per month (4+ when I travel) versus less than 1GB when I was on verizon 3G. I can contribute my extra usage to the fact that verizon LTE is much better than verizon 3G. But one thing I've noticed is that verizon LTE is getting a bit congested and during peak times my speeds drop significantly.
 
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