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Verizon Customers on Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans Face $20 Price Increase
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I doubt AT&T will follow. I'm glad i stuck with the unlimited. Theres no throttle until 22gb now. Verizon users have to find loopholes when upgrading phones to keep their unlimited plan. only thing att has done lately is allowing 2 year upgrades only at att stores or att website.
Crap! I just gave up unlimited data for one of the mobile share plans. Saving $30/month doing so, but would have saved $20 by no longer paying for texting.
At least I'm contract free . . .
If they do it gives you a chance to get out of the contract . . .
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What Best Buy method are you referring to that still works? I had been using another line on my family plan every year to get a new phone, I tried it last year with the 6 and Verizon knew I had used the upgrade on another line and removed my data plan regardless. After days of arguing, I just returned the phone, made them revert my UDP, bought one at full retail and kept my UDP, though not on contract.
Agreed. For the record too....what I said was in no way meant to be a defense for them. I just worked in that industry, VZW (corporate, not resellers) specifically, for almost 7 years. Some things have changed since then, but certain patterns I just don't think will change.
In order to see any real change / competition, you'd have to see legislation that overturns the telecommunications act of 1996. That is what basically un-did the prior legislation that broke up the old telecom monopolies way back when. Give it enough time they way they are acting, and it just might happen. Especially with the current climate of the FCC (I know they don't control the legislation directly, but if they start pushing that direction it could carry weight.) The more things change the more they stay the same kinda thing....might come full circle given enough time.
They won't care. They won't even say goodbye as you walk through the door. In fact, they will probably be glad to get rid of you. You are NO thread to them.
You guys act as if you are due something for free. Grow up and learn about the world. Trust em. Just because you were born doesn't mean you are guaranteed anything from anyone.
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Agreed to this. At this point in time I am very inclined to say that MR has becomed biased against AT&T. This is clearly front page material, and I don't see this there. However, let AT&T increase $0.01 and this news is all over MR and under BREAKING NEWS
With smartphones, generally, no. With an iPhone, no; with a nice paid option, however. With an iPad, yes.
I have 4 UL lines - 2 iPhone 6 handsets, and 1 iPad Air and 1 iPad 3 (both with LTE cards). The iPads have PHS included in their usage, even for legacy Nationwide (NW) plans (which is what I have) - I've used PHS so many times when my cable internet craps out I can't count them.
For an iPhone on a NW plan, one can add Mobile Hotspot for $30 per month to your plan via the My Verizon web portal or app - no jailbreaking necessary. Activate it, or call 611 and have CS do it for you, wait about 2-3 minutes, and the options available to you. Or, just toggle the option in Settings, and you'll get walked through the set up on your iPhone. The first sweet part about this PHS option is that, first, it's per diem - about a $1 per day, it can be turned on and off at that per diem rate. The second sweet part about this PHS option is that the tethering "bucket" is also unlimited - I've used this option a few dozen times in the past couple of years with my iPhones; the past two years I watched a couple of hours of Coachilla on my rMBP while tethered to my iPhone, for a buck each day.
Verizon is such a victim. 
They seem to forget customers are only on an unlimited plan because they gave them that option to begin with. Here's an idea... if your goal is to get people off an old plan, how about providing quality incentives to get customers onto a newer plan, rather than trying to bully them off. I guess common sense and being considerate don't mesh with corporate greed.
They seem to forget customers are only on an unlimited plan because they gave them that option to begin with. Here's an idea... if your goal is to get people off an old plan, how about providing quality incentives to get customers onto a newer plan, rather than trying to bully them off. I guess common sense and being considerate don't mesh with corporate greed.No worries! I know we're all on the same side here.
I really like how T-Mobile is keeping everybody on their toes. It's almost comical watching Verizon always scramble to catch up/save face.
Because, greed. So happy I went the flip phone / iPod Touch route.
Not missing ridiculous carrier charges or bs by a long shot.
So happy I went the flip phone / iPod Touch route. Not missing ridiculous carrier charges or bs by a long shot.
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AT&T, I DARE you to follow suit. I really do. Nothing would make me happier than to get my whole family to switch to T-Mobile....
Yeah, that can be a hassle. I think it's a trade off between coverage and speed. LTE has way more coverage than wifi if you are a traveler or otherwise mobile (outside of your own wifi). The speed of LTE is in between DSL and wifi. I think Verizon was last rated at 12 MBPS. My wifi at home just doubled to (up to) 100 MBPS. However, the speed on wifi (not wired to the modem) is considerably less than the max and LTE is probably fast enough for streaming, etc.
Found the other thread a little after I posted my question. I'm thinking this must be something that's happening as billing cycles end. I'm still showing 550 minutes (plus 3000+ rollover)
I'm more intrigued by the unlimited text end. I rely on GV for my texts, so this would be an incentive to reduce that and rely more on ATTs services as it would reduce confusion for a lot of long term friends, who have to store two numbers for me.
All this talk about how much data costs in the States depresses me. I'm working in Taiwan at the moment where my phone has unlimited 4G voice and data and I don't think I pay much more than USD $80 per month.
Moving back to the States next month, dreading phone contract shopping.
Moving back to the States next month, dreading phone contract shopping.
Check out slickdeals. There is a huge thread about it in the "Hot Deals" section. Not sure if I'm breaking rules promoting another site but I'm trying to help you out.
T-Mobile unlimited is $80 a month, plus some tax. If you want to get a new phone, just add a phone payment on there.
For this price, I have 2 phones on TMobile at unlimited everything. Silly to pay twice the price to me. No service is that good.
Paying that vs what? T-Mobile is known to not work well for quite a few people, so for those in that situation, it certainly doesn't appear to be a better alternative, even if it's cheaper.
I read a few web articles about this twisting of the nut by VZW earlier today. I also read several comments from members here that, more or less, offered a "deal with it" or "get on the wahambulance" perspective. All fair. Here's a gripe that offers something to the naysayers, from an owner of several UL data plans but is still a bit responsible about it.
First, I provide consulting services to companies and agencies. I reached out to a few connects and asked a point-blank question about the cost-per-unit of delivering data. I was a bit surprised, even given some of the time-constrained and regional nature of my query. I cannot name my sources - I'm putting that out there, and I'm not going to put up with those who discount what comes next as I would just offer a "pick up the damned phone and ask questions yourself" and move on. Generally put, a lot of the back-end of our fringe-urban and rural bandwidth supply was facilitated by microwave, but now its direct fiber-to-the-tower - the cost-per-GB is less than 1/6 of what the cost was for "2G" and "3G"; I've read this bit in the past, so I'm not too surprised by this type of comment.
This next one kind of pissed me off - especially toward VZW. The second perspective is the footprint "impact" of mobile advertising, and, given that VZW's recent assimilation of the AOL network and that they'll be matching EDID and mobile activity, I tested out a comment that somewhere between 40%-60% of mobile bandwidth is "advertising related" - while keeping in mind that I've had only about 12 hours to test this out. I have two iPhone 6 handsets, both on the same tower, both with identical applications; I use Feedly and Newsify to connect to the Feedly network, and I had some time to kill. One iPhone 6 was unfettered by ad blocking, the second was set up to block ads (Crystal and Readability). The unfettered iPhone 6 used 1.3GB of data, while the iPhone 6 that used ad blockers used 0.4GB - ads, from my completely unofficial "test" consumed roughly 3x more data - even considering the additional data consumed by Readability.
IMHO, VZW is attempting to force its users toward a controlled, ad-ridden, tracked (opt-in by default) network run by a company that fired its tech support people two years ago and staffs its corporate stores with generally-untrained sales people that earn most of its money by consignment. Early in this post/rant, I offered that I'm generally responsible with my data use. I have one more upgrade left in my old Nationwide plan and I think I'll use it, and I'll use all four lines to beat the heck out of their network with mildly-tempered reckless abandon without caring a rats-azz about what Fran Shamwow thinks - and I'll be able to do it for 2 more years, under contract.
First, I provide consulting services to companies and agencies. I reached out to a few connects and asked a point-blank question about the cost-per-unit of delivering data. I was a bit surprised, even given some of the time-constrained and regional nature of my query. I cannot name my sources - I'm putting that out there, and I'm not going to put up with those who discount what comes next as I would just offer a "pick up the damned phone and ask questions yourself" and move on. Generally put, a lot of the back-end of our fringe-urban and rural bandwidth supply was facilitated by microwave, but now its direct fiber-to-the-tower - the cost-per-GB is less than 1/6 of what the cost was for "2G" and "3G"; I've read this bit in the past, so I'm not too surprised by this type of comment.
This next one kind of pissed me off - especially toward VZW. The second perspective is the footprint "impact" of mobile advertising, and, given that VZW's recent assimilation of the AOL network and that they'll be matching EDID and mobile activity, I tested out a comment that somewhere between 40%-60% of mobile bandwidth is "advertising related" - while keeping in mind that I've had only about 12 hours to test this out. I have two iPhone 6 handsets, both on the same tower, both with identical applications; I use Feedly and Newsify to connect to the Feedly network, and I had some time to kill. One iPhone 6 was unfettered by ad blocking, the second was set up to block ads (Crystal and Readability). The unfettered iPhone 6 used 1.3GB of data, while the iPhone 6 that used ad blockers used 0.4GB - ads, from my completely unofficial "test" consumed roughly 3x more data - even considering the additional data consumed by Readability.
IMHO, VZW is attempting to force its users toward a controlled, ad-ridden, tracked (opt-in by default) network run by a company that fired its tech support people two years ago and staffs its corporate stores with generally-untrained sales people that earn most of its money by consignment. Early in this post/rant, I offered that I'm generally responsible with my data use. I have one more upgrade left in my old Nationwide plan and I think I'll use it, and I'll use all four lines to beat the heck out of their network with mildly-tempered reckless abandon without caring a rats-azz about what Fran Shamwow thinks - and I'll be able to do it for 2 more years, under contract.
Half the price, and works perfectly for me in Austin. I used to have AT&T, and the speed is faster here as well.
Not true. I have 2 unlimited plans under contract because I've used the subsidy loophole
If they raise the price on my plans I am canceling without etf. If they charge me an etf I will take them to small claims court and I WILL win. This is complete bs