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Verizon iPhone to Ship in A Few Weeks with Unlimited Data Plans?

ghostface147 said:
These are my speeds on 3G on AT&T. Good enough for me.
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WOW! Wish my Speedtest results looked like that. Seems as if you live in an area that AT&T likes better than their home town.

Edit: Just ran 2 tests from my couch.
First - 1.13 Mbps
Second - .87 Mbps

Sorry, can't go bragging to my Verizon using buddies with this one.
 
Geckotek said:
WOW! Wish my Speedtest results looked like that. Seems as if you live in an area that AT&T likes better than their home town.
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I also have seen my ATT speedtests tip over the 5Mbit/s mark on multiple occasions, and my uploads are very consistently between 1.25-1.5Mbit/s as well. Granted, I live in a small college+farming town of about 20K people almost in the middle of nowhere...it's a miracle that we have 3G AT&T here at all, quite frankly (we even have a rather large corporate AT&T store here in what we call our "mall"! ;) )

-- Nathan
 
If you want the most reliable network with the best nationwide coverage even though it might be slightly slower in certain areas go with Verizon. Once Verizon deploys their 4G LTE network I see the speed edge going to Verizon.

Verizon is called Big Red because there are few places in the entire United States that you can't pick up a reliable, usable 3G signal. If you value reliable voice and data service then Verizon is just the better and bigger network.

Now for certain people circumstances are different and when it comes to that you have to decide what works best for you.
 
kdarling said:
Forget Verizon. Even Jobs used WiFi as an excuse for not having 3G in the first iPhone:

"The iPhone switches to any known Wi-Fi network when it senses one. What we've found is that Edge is terrific for e-mail and basic Internet usage. When people need more speed, there's Wi-Fi. The nice thing about Wi-Fi is it's way faster than 3G. - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2007-06-28-jobs-stephenson-qa_N.htm?csp=34Steve Jobs, June 2007"
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Which only supports my point. Can't forget Verizon, that was your point. Wi-Fi is much faster than Verizon speeds too. Wi-Fi does not have a good footprint compared to cellular service. Verizon kept Wi-Fi off of their phones for reasons other than they thought they had great service. That was my counterpoint.

But I'll let it go. It's way off topic.

The Verizon iPhone is curious...but I'm staying with ATT, thank you!
 
cameronjpu said:
The sheeple among us accept it because we know that if everyone acted as if unlimited meant unlimited, none of us would have any use of the service at all. So whether they call it unlimited for 5GB limit, the sheeple among us know that using less than 1 GB is what keeps the service accessible to all and available at a reasonable price, which it would not be if everyone used 10 GB on average.
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Fixed it for you!

When you encounter a limit, it is no longer unlimited.
--Eval Knievel

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
--Richard Bach
 
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if verizon offers a cheap tethering option (read: free...like it SHOULD be) then i'm jumping ship
 
All 3g smartphones on Verizon are unlimited w/o 5gb cap. Guess we wont be seeing LTE iphones tues.
 
I'm just as psyched as most for LTE, but on the flip side... I rarely need it.

I only travel a few times a year, and when I travel it's always family stuff (I have 2 kids, and the obvious wife) so we always have WiFi in the hotel, and the only time I access data is car finder apps for large places, uploading pics taken w/ my phone, and pandora when driving. That's about it.

Outside of that 85% of the time I'm at home/work and have WiFi and the other 15% I only use data for quick things.

So honestly the only thing I'm interested in seeing is the form factor, and if anything is crippled in comparison to my Motorola Droid in terms of general things.
 
iRez said:
if verizon offers a cheap tethering option (read: free...like it SHOULD be) then i'm jumping ship
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You can tether for free with the HandyLight app... (if you were one of the lucky ones to grab it like I did) :cool:
 
okay possibly stupid question... but i'm confused...

i remember the apple commercials where they highlighted how on their 3G that the iPhone could do voice/data at the same time, at the time when verizon was pulling their "there's a map for that" ads. so i assume the verizon iphone can do voice/data simultaneously as well?
 
NathanA said:
I also have seen my ATT speedtests tip over the 5Mbit/s mark on multiple occasions, and my uploads are very consistently between 1.25-1.5Mbit/s as well. Granted, I live in a small college+farming town of about 20K people almost in the middle of nowhere...it's a miracle that we have 3G AT&T here at all, quite frankly (we even have a rather large corporate AT&T store here in what we call our "mall"! ;) )

-- Nathan
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Hmmm..perhaps my issues are rooted in a poor backhaul?

ghostface147 said:
I live in Houston.
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NVM then. I'm assuming living in the heart of AT&T land that my backhaul should be as good as yours. Or perhaps they just like Houston better. :(

troop231 said:
Cool? :confused:
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He was responding to me.

Diode said:
My issue with AT&T is not speed but latency. Verizon's is much lower then AT&T and will make the phone feel a lot faster, even with a slower network.
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AMEN! My ping is 300ms!!

iRez said:
if verizon offers a cheap tethering option (read: free...like it SHOULD be) then i'm jumping ship
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$15/month :(
 
DakotaGuy said:
If you want the most reliable network with the best nationwide coverage even though it might be slightly slower in certain areas go with Verizon. Once Verizon deploys their 4G LTE network I see the speed edge going to Verizon.

Verizon is called Big Red because there are few places in the entire United States that you can't pick up a reliable, usable 3G signal. If you value reliable voice and data service then Verizon is just the better and bigger network.

Now for certain people circumstances are different and when it comes to that you have to decide what works best for you.
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Speaking of LTE, what are the community's thoughts about whether or not the vPhone will have it?
 
mykelefty said:
okay possibly stupid question... but i'm confused...

i remember the apple commercials where they highlighted how on their 3G that the iPhone could do voice/data at the same time, at the time when verizon was pulling their "there's a map for that" ads. so i assume the verizon iphone can do voice/data simultaneously as well?
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JSK1121 said:
Speaking of LTE, what are the community's thoughts about whether or not the vPhone will have it?
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To kill 2 birds with one stone....

We'll find out Tuesday.
 
I would really love to have a Sprint iPhone and use it on my SERO Premium 500 plan. Hopefully Apple puts this phone on the four major USA networks soon, or maybe Sprint starts allowing jailbroken Verizon iPhones on their network.
 
@Geckotek, yes I read it.

$30 for unlimited > $25 for 2GB

that's how verizon's plan is more expensive.
 
miles01110 said:
The "contract" means you will be required to pay the ETF to cover the cost of your subsidized phone if you cancel before the 2 years is up. You may also be required to have *a* data plan. With Verizon's plans- just like AT&Ts- data charges are a monthly charge which can be changed (and prorated) any time in the billing cycle.

If the "unlimited" option was taken away you'd be able to keep it just like you can on the iPad if you were grandfathered in. New contracts after the unlimited plan goes away won't have that option though.

So no- there's not that much difference at all.
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I think you are a little confused. He meant if you sign a two year contract with an unlimited plan, that is what you get. They can not change you to a teared plan after 3 months. They can offer new customers whatever plan they want though.
 
Right now, this is all conjecture. Maybe they will support voice/data, be cheaper/more expensive, faster/slower who knows what else.

My question -

Who do you TRUST, I mean honestly trust to leave out all the marketing and spin crap once the iPhone comes to Verizon so we can see a true iPhone-to-iPhone comparison?
 
Hack my ViPhone

Pls post a hack asap after release to remove all the funky Verizon logos we will have to endure. V cast my ass.
 
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