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Verizon i5 - Keeping Unlimited Data

mr lee said:
They have changed the policy. Now Either you buy a phone at full price and keep your unlimited OR use an upgrade and lose your unlimited data package. (I know it sucks)

I have verified this over the phone with them many times and a family member of mine works for verizon wireless customer support and confirmed it :(
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This is correct.
 
Fugue said:
I can confirm that the cross-upgrade does work.

I upgraded on line XXXX, which used to be unlimited, and they forced me to get a 2GB plan. Then I removed the iPhone 5 from line XXXX and activated it on YYYY which had, and still has, unlimited LTE data.

Hopefully I won't get throttled ;)
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This really upsets me. I specifically asked a Verizon rep at one of their stores if this was possible. I knew it was (because I did it in the past to get my i4) but I wanted to confirm. She told me no and made up some bs excuse regarding how the i5 now has a SIM, yadda yadda yadda. I hate being treated like a misinformed ignoramus.

Thanks for confirming this.
 
einmusiker said:
Its part of the contract they agreed to with the fcc when they purchased the LTE spectrum. No throttling and they have to allow tethering
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I can't tether on my unlimited plan. It says I have to activate it on my plan by calling verizon or going to the website.
 
From A Buick 8 said:
Let me know how it all works out, I was thinking about going this route but from what I have read it does not work on a individual line.
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I am calculating the cost for me. And it wouldn't really cut down the expenses for me. I don't use alot of minutes to start of, so 700minutes is too much although it is a good price if you use alot of minutes. But I can ask ;)
 
Fugue said:
Just wondering - why can't they?
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Long Story short, the 700mhz spectrum they bought had the limitations of having to be kept open and they cannot throttle it.

Vice92 said:
This really upsets me. I specifically asked a Verizon rep at one of their stores if this was possible. I knew it was (because I did it in the past to get my i4) but I wanted to confirm. She told me no and made up some bs excuse regarding how the i5 now has a SIM, yadda yadda yadda. I hate being treated like a misinformed ignoramus.

Thanks for confirming this.
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Yeah it sucks, I saw an iPhone 5 at walmart today but there was no associate around so I called while I was at the checkout line and asked what size it was and the lady was like we do not have any iPhone 5s, and I was like I saw it in the display case! but she was uninformed and just said they do not have any.

einmusiker said:
Its part of the contract they agreed to with the fcc when they purchased the LTE spectrum. No throttling and they have to allow tethering
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They have to allow tethering on 3G, not 4G, if your caught tethering on 4G with an unlimited data plan they can switch you to a Share plan.

Tiptizzle said:
I can't tether on my unlimited plan. It says I have to activate it on my plan by calling verizon or going to the website.
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Which you have to do unless your on 3G then you can download any tethering app (but it requires you to be jailbroken as the app store does not have any.
 
I have a question about the whole upgrade deal. I am on a family plan and will be upgrading a dumb phone to the i5 and then swapping it to my number. What will I need to do since I am purchasing the phone through an Apple store instead of Verizon? Keep the phone in the box and then take it to Verizon so they can do the swap?
 
sdfd504 said:
I have a question about the whole upgrade deal. I am on a family plan and will be upgrading a dumb phone to the i5 and then swapping it to my number. What will I need to do since I am purchasing the phone through an Apple store instead of Verizon? Keep the phone in the box and then take it to Verizon so they can do the swap?
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Just call Verizon give them the serial and they will do the rest make sure if you buy the phone lets say on a monday to not turn it on because the sim resets everyday at 7 am after that call them up and activate I did this to keep my unlimited:cool:
 
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