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Verizon Introducing $20 Fee to Upgrade Your Smartphone
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Will do. I use b both OS's.
Even with my current corporate discount, this rice looks very nice.
They never subsidised the phones, that just amortised the cost for you over 18 months!
Verizon still can't talk on your phone and access the internet at the same time - useless for me (in so many ways)
Hence why I switch to Tmobile.
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Cricket was purchased by AT&T a while ago. Their service now is basically a capped version of AT&T.
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Cricket was purchased by AT&T a while ago. Their service now is basically a capped version of AT&T.
You should see what I was paying for mobile service is Canada - my monthly phone bill here (included all taxes) is $72 and in Canada my monthly service was $122.00 (about $96 US)
Why? Hopefully it helps them to be even more profitable.
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Just like Apple doesn't charge more for a dollars worth of RAM or storage.
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Quite similar to Apple customers?
Let's just say I knew about the upgrade plan months before it was announced
By offering a payment plan option on iPhone, Apple are now taking sales away from the carriers own finance plans and therefore profit.
Just because the phone is 'activated' doesn't mean you can't cancel the card and resell it, the whole point of buying through Apple is that you're no longer tied to 2 year contract with a carrier so it's not like you'd be out of pocket by $2000 if you sell the phone!
You'll still owe the bank $700 and your credit score/history will take the hit if you fail to pay the loan off!
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I bet $20 that Verizon Wireless will institute a $20 fee to get customer service from a person pretty soon.
Verizon: We'll overcharge you because we can. I get good coverage on T-mobile, everyone should switch to AT&T, T-Mobile or Sprint to teach these pricks a lesson.
Except as the very article shows, AT&T and Sprint both have similar fees already in place (even before Verizon). So...
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Doesn't seem like they are charging $70 for 1 GB.
I'm on T-mobile but one of my parents is on Google's new Project Fi service with a Nexus; were tired of Verizon and looks to be a good service. (except you can only use it on nexus phones; there may be a way to use it on iphones)
-Costs $20/month for unlimited call minutes, unlimited texts
-Costs $10/month for 1 Gb of data and you are refunded $1 for every 100 Mb you don't use.
-International data roaming all over the world at domestic prices.
-Uses Sprint, Wifi, and T-mobile (CDMA and GSM) simultaneously on one SIM, switches to whichever has the strongest signal.
- up to 10 free extra data-only SIM cards.
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They figured out how to lock out Bluetooth's OBEX profile to promote their ringtone buying app years ago in flip phones...
Back to topic, how can they actually justify the "upgrade" cost if the consumer is paying the full purchase price...
This Project Fi service got me thinking, why can't these carriers start offering refunds for unused data (unless it's unlimited), like they are doing?
What's so unreasonable about not charging us for data we don't use?
Let's just say I knew every little detail of the upgrade plan months before it was announced
By offering a payment plan option on iPhone, Apple are now taking sales away from the carriers own finance plans and therefore profit.
Just because the phone is 'activated' doesn't mean you can't cancel the card and resell it, the whole point of buying through Apple is that you're no longer tied to 2 year contract with a carrier so it's not like you'd be out of pocket by $2000 if you sell the phone!
You'll still owe the bank $700 and your credit score/history will take the hit if you fail to pay the loan off!
I call BS on your supposed inside knowledge. If you had so much knowledge you'd know that there is no profit for the carriers on the finance plans. They're financing the phones interest free. So the only thing that Apple is taking away from the carriers is the noose around the neck of the subscriber that forces them to pay off the phone in a lump sum if they leave the carrier before all of the installments are complete.
Yes, you can cancel the card and resell the phone. But you're reselling a phone that has been activated on a carrier already, and has been opened. There is still some risk for the bank, but less so than if they let me walk out the door with an unactivated phone still in the box.
The "Apple is activating the phone to appease the carrier" theory is just bogus. Period.
Seems they have hit the part of their business plan where they no longer have the need for customers.
You're forgetting the profit built into the retail price of the phone. The carriers were paying wholesale and selling retail. So every phone that Apple sells is money out of the carriers' pockets and into Apple's.
will i still get charged this fee if i simply swap out the sim card? buy the phone outright from apple and switch the sim from my current phone?
Seems like that shouldn't require a charge based in the document included in the article.
Verizon has amazing coverage here in LA, but they are killing me with their prices and fees! Might be time to switch
It's a made up fee that companies like Verizon give official sounding names to that make consumers think it's the government charging them. It's not, it's Verizon charging them for no reason other than to make a few extra bucks of pure profit.