I thought being grandfathered meant your bill would stay the same?
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Verizon Customers on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans Face $20 Price Increase
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How are you on contract? They cut out upgrades for UDP just before the iPhone 5 came out which is 3 years ago
i have never seen that in writing from VZW. I am pretty sure it was always the risk you took when you went off contract.
Well my bill will now be $114 a month for unlimited data. Not liking the price increase. Seems greedy.
No, I just assumed "grandfathered" meant so long as the customer makes no changes to their account everything stays the same.
Yeah, VZW has done a much better job of reducing their UDP customers by hitting them in the pockets vs ATT, who just throttled data or whatnot. Removing the subsidy eliminated a huge mass of folks who didn't have extra lines or family plans to do upgrade swaps with. This will eliminate a lot of the rest because now the capped data plans are actually cheaper.
There is a small subset of folks who have been maintaining their contracts by having extra dumb phone lines or using the Best Buy trick each year to still buy phones on subsidy.
Yeah sorry, that was more snarky than I intended when I read it back. The grandfathered refers to the fact that it's an offering that is no longer available to sign up for and is maintained, essentially, out of compliance/policy because it was existing at the time the new policy (no unlimited data) was created.
Got on contract lines with UDP during the Apple glitch last year.
False. I have unlimited data and I still have an active contract. In fact, I purchased my 6S Plus on a 2 year contract with subsidised pricing.
$50 on top of the price of minutes and texts.
Also, even if you accept this price increase, Verizon won't stop until no one has a UDP anymore. They're insanely consumer unfriendly.
That's a disingenuous statement. You cannot be both on contract and have unlimited data on a single line as you implied. You have to employ some kind of mechanism like an 'extra' line which increases overall cost and decreases the value proposition.
Not counting loopholes and such that you may have found. Just talking about those who upgrade normally.
I guess they're taking UDP customers at their word. Killing them with price increases so they can pry their "cold dead hands" off the plan.
I have six total lines. Two are under contract until 10/2016, so I guess those do not change, but the other four do. So, an extra $80 per month is going to sting a bit. All six plans are using between 10-14 GB per month, sometimes to 16GB. Guess I have one month to figure out what to do?
I wouldn't consider it a loophole. I'm on a four line family plan, each of us on staggered upgrade dates. I upgrade to the newest iPhone every single year. I simply use another lines upgrade and then activate it on my line. If they need my upgrade, I transfer it to that line and I just get their new date and they get mine. When they upgrade it doesn't change my plan.
If AT&T did it, I'd probably finally switch to a family share plan, unless they let me (legally) tether. I've been tempted but the cost vs. giving up didn't make sense.
I rarely go over 3GB and I think I've only gone over 5GB twice. So the numbers seem good-ish to switch to a different plan, BUT I'd probably tether (since it'd be more seamless) and I'd use WAY more data than I currently do....
Gary
I rarely go over 3GB and I think I've only gone over 5GB twice. So the numbers seem good-ish to switch to a different plan, BUT I'd probably tether (since it'd be more seamless) and I'd use WAY more data than I currently do....
Gary