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Verizon Makes Customers Wait Longer for Upgrades
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Where I live if you want a landline Verizon is your choice. I know when we moved from an apartment to a house, they wanted to change our landline price to 70 bux a month when we had been paying 30 a month (That was back in 2007 and landline was really going the way of the dodo). Apparently according to them we had to pick a new plan since we moved to a different zip code. It's not like there was a choice, you wanted landline, you picked Verizon. That's when we decided to go to cellphone only which was cheaper (and we weren't with Verizon so they totally lost our business by that move. I'm still curious why they thought forcing us to go to a 70 dollar plan was a good business move unless they wanted out of the landline business and that was their way of discouraging people from getting landlines. And that's been known to happen so it very well could have been their thoughts).
I just checked my upgrade date on the Verizon Wireless page and confirmed that mine was just bumped from January 2014 to May 2014.
I'm only a few days in to the new upgrade eligibility rules window and now have to wait an extra four months. I hope the battery on my 4S holds out (it's been fine so far but it has more than a year to go).
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No worries here as carriers don't control phone purchases.
but you have to pay full price, so you don't have a choice.
No galaxy 4 or HTC one for me until 2014 now. I was looking forward to september. I might as well wait for the iphone 6 or galaxy 5.
Or break your contract and move on. Show Verizon what you think of their new contract terms.
Thats what i did and i could not be happier on t mobile . Ive been with verizon for well over 10 years and while their coverage in my area is good im getting better service on tmobile. At first i thought of it and meh you get what you pay for so i expected to get spotty service no 4g etc however that was not the case t mobile has surprised me hd calling is awesome i also have data and coverage in area i didnt with verizon. Longtime verizon customers dont have much to show for their loyalty .price increases unlimited data going verizon needs to go back to the drawing board t mobile has snatched a bunch of their customers
Yes, but that doesn't negate my argument that Verizon doesn't have monopolies. In my area, they do have a monopoly on landlines. You want a landline, you pick Verizon.