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Part II - UDP For Life
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Did you look at the 3gstore? It is where I purchased my UML295 last month and the cradlepoint router a few years ago.
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What is your current line situation? You need to AOL the 700 min NW plan into a subaccount b/c you can't have 2 family share plans in the same account.
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What happens then - do you get another 450 or 900 minute individual plan with UDP?
Do you have a UDP line on the 550 family share? Is your end goal just to get rid of the 550 plan or do you want to keep it?
Has anyone with UL minutes gotten that result - 2 individual plans with UL minutes?
Well....I called back again after over 24 hrs. I think I may have called too soon and perhaps that's why I ran into issues. The process should have been smooth as I had done it for another line and it went fine with no issues in a few hours. The difference here is that I had a PDI on that line and the line was marked suspended. When I called verizon again they processed an immediate cancellation of the line and that moved things along. I just had to wait, it seems.
Does anyone have a lead on someone who will take lines, free of course, that they are willing to share? Msg me privately please.
If I can certainly upgrade to a 700 one then I'll definitely take it. My contract end dates on my data lines are May and Nov. I'm guessing I'm able to move the lines from one plan to another?
But yes, if I can get rid of the 550 plan I will. Thanks.
You aren't answering my questions. How many lines do you have on your 550 plan? How may have UDP? Describe your line situation - data, off/on contract, etc. Do you want to move to a NW 700 FS plan?
you have more lines than you know what to do with, then why not?
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I can always aol you a line, you can restart ..
The person I AOL to AOL a couple of the lines back
Sorry.
Line 1 - TDP - under contract 11/2015 - mine
Line 2 - UDP - under contract 5/2015 - hers
Line 3 - dumb phone - out of contract - can be terminated
Most definitely interested in moving to a NW 700 FS plan.
Well this is easy then just call the AOL department and tell them to switch you to the NW 700 minute plan with either payg, 1000 or UL texts and to leave the data plans unchanged. Then you will be able to add a new UDP line via apple.com.
You can keep the new UDP line suspended w/o billing for 6 months and use the TDP line until you are closer to your TDP line's contract end date if you want to minimize the etf of the TDP line. Or you can terminate the TDP and pay the etf as soon as you get the new UDP line.
Once you are ready to terminate the TDP line, you can port your TDP line's number to page plus to terminate it then port the number back to the new UDP line.
Cost will be $170/mo for 2 UDP lines and a basic line. I would keep the basic line for upgrade transfers. You can use neomits method to use the basic line's upgrade to get a new iPhone and either keep it or sell it to pay for the cost of the basic line for 2 years.
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Are you positive it actually brings down the ETF when you suspend a line? I thought you had to be actively paying on the line?
No, what I am saying is that he keeps the TDP line active for 6 more months to reduce the etf of the TDP line by $10/mo. During that time he keeps the new UDP line suspended w/o billing.
Or he can just pay the etf for the TDP line as soon as he adds a new UDP line and be done with it. That is what I would do. He has 1 more year on the TDP line so his etf is going to be about $230 if he terminates now. If he waits 6 months to terminate it, it will only be $170. However he will have to deal with a TDP line for his data use during that time.
The other thing he could try is to put a basic phone on the TDP line and drop the data plan on it. Then in 1 billing cycle, terminate the line and see if he gets the basic line etf instead of the smartphone line etf. I think I mentioned here that I added a TDP line, dropped the data plan and put a basic phone on the line for a billing cycle then terminated the line. They only charged me an etf of $170, which was the $175 basic line etf - $5 for the month I kept the line. Don't know if that was a fluke or not.
Edited original post to clarify what I was talking about.
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lots of UML295 available for $60 on ebay just make the seller an offer, he was selling for $55 a week ago
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the sweet nectar of success I'll have my Plus 128gb SG tomorrow so my fingers are crossed
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I bought 3 new mbr1400's off the bay today for $200 each and missed one for $199 on an offer this morning that the seller got $249 to a sucker / greater fool. There is a nice used unit currently listed for $195 or offer that the seller will take $185 for with free shipping which is a great deal
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not a cheap setup but it will rock your world! $300 should cover a used mbr1400, a Pantech UML295, external antenna adapter and a Wilson Cellular Trucker external antenna. No sense having a rocking system like this w/o the external antenna to grab and transmit max signal for max banbwidth / pipe
I'm eliminating my archaic and slow Qwest DSL lines I've been using for ip cam security which will save $60 per month per location so almost enough to cover the UDP lines with my biz discount
Is there anyway I can port my number over from ATT to Verizon as a new customer and purchase an AOL on eBay and transfer the UDP to a new line? Or should I purchase an unlocked iPhone 6plus first and then purchase a UDP, then port my number over? I have a 6+ already with ATT, but I am tired of them throttling me after 5gb.
Your response was on point but can you imagine how these people feel who didn't know what was going on and bought at the peak, lol!
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What you need to do is buy a Verizon 4G LTE device of your choice, AOL a Verizon UDP line and put the Verizon 4G LTE device on the new UDP line. Then port your ATT number to the Verizon UDP line to terminate the ATT line. Then sell the ATT iP6+.
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