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Verizon's Tiered iPhone Data Plans to Debut on July 7th
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I am a low data user on AT&T. I have the 200 MB plan. It is always adequate for my needs, as I have wifi at home and at work. $15 for 200MB is OK. But $10 for just 75 MB is terrible. I routinely use at least 100 MB. The Verizon plan would cost me 1/3 more than I'm now paying with AT&T. Seems like Verizon should have a more realistic bottom tier.
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Nonsensical and wrong
Companies such as Apple are avidly promoting cloud computing, which in most every respect would seem to be the future.
Meanwhile internet providers are seemingly intent on doing just the opposite, raising prices and throttling access back into the stone age.
Companies such as Apple are avidly promoting cloud computing, which in most every respect would seem to be the future.Meanwhile internet providers are seemingly intent on doing just the opposite, raising prices and throttling access back into the stone age.
When I read this, its $10 for the first 75 (worthless) and then $10 for EVERY 75mb there after (rip off).
Why are people saying $10 for 75mb then $10 up to 1gig? That is completely wrong or is it because i have had only one cup of coffee?
Reading is fundamental. Grandfather clause?Verizon should have thought about these plans.
How are they going to convince anyone to get off their unlimited plan and drop to the 2GB plan for the same price
It is crazy. THe low end data amount is too small. I'm a light user of 3G and I'm at 150MBs a month easy. They are almost forcing you into a $20 minimum.
Personally, I think this is all designed to stop you from using your cell phone as a wireless hub once 4G is more available.
Holy crap...
$80 a month for crappy and out of date wireless phone internet. I hope this includes free tethering and lube then then. I pay $30 a month for 22mbps download at my home. Sounds like a scam to me. Americans love to ******* Americans.
$80 a month for crappy and out of date wireless phone internet. I hope this includes free tethering and lube then then. I pay $30 a month for 22mbps download at my home. Sounds like a scam to me. Americans love to ******* Americans.
And the problem is.....
Americans sit here and eat it up too. If I didn't have unlimited data through AT&T, I would just move on over to Sprint. If Sprint didn't have it, guess what, no "smart phone" for me. Screw these huge companies that are screwing their customers.
Americans sit here and eat it up too. If I didn't have unlimited data through AT&T, I would just move on over to Sprint. If Sprint didn't have it, guess what, no "smart phone" for me. Screw these huge companies that are screwing their customers.
ETF's Keep Costumers Locked in so Many Can't Switch.
In most cases consumers don't have much choice because we're locked in these Draconian Contracts with huge ETFs. I have Verizon's 4G Hotspot plan and my first bill is wrong to the tune of $40. I had their phone service for two years and the f'ers had my bill incorrect almost every month to the tune of hundreds of dollars.
Instead of constantly fighting them this time, I'm just canceling my service and paying the $175 ETF - to get them out of my life. Most consumers can't afford to do this. Not to mention they seem to throttle my service to 3G levels once I hit 6 GB.
And we need phones, in the US we only have 3 options Verizon, Sprint or AT&T. Can't count TMobile anymore because once AT&T takes them over next year you can guarantee their prices will suck.
In most cases consumers don't have much choice because we're locked in these Draconian Contracts with huge ETFs. I have Verizon's 4G Hotspot plan and my first bill is wrong to the tune of $40. I had their phone service for two years and the f'ers had my bill incorrect almost every month to the tune of hundreds of dollars.
Instead of constantly fighting them this time, I'm just canceling my service and paying the $175 ETF - to get them out of my life. Most consumers can't afford to do this. Not to mention they seem to throttle my service to 3G levels once I hit 6 GB.
And we need phones, in the US we only have 3 options Verizon, Sprint or AT&T. Can't count TMobile anymore because once AT&T takes them over next year you can guarantee their prices will suck.
Why would you pay an ETF?
You PORT your number to a new provider citing that their service in your area is terrible. Let them prove it's not! They won't make the effort or take the time.
When porting they wave the ETF as their service isn't as promised!
Well it should be able to be granted into the next one or the next time you get a new phone as long as you dont remove the plan and re add it.
I didn't say it was identical. Its still fiber and its still data. See next post below:
Thank you.
Unfortunately that's not how it works. The ETF is tied to your contract - not the porting of the number. Generally the only way an ETF is waived is when the carrier violated the contract not the customer.
You port after you terminate the contract. Not before.
I truly, truly hope that works! I just dont believe it will though. I went ahead and bought the Palm Pixi to be sure. It was worth for me. Again, I really wish you luck, and recording the call was a great idea. Hopefully when the new iPhones out, we'll both have unlimited!!!
A small loophole in the 2 gig plan
$10 is for featured phones only. I did speak to a Verizon rep that told me you can change your plan on the fly for an unlimited number of times. So there is a loophole of sorts. Say you are on a 2 gig plan and wind up using 4+ gig's in a month, just call and change the plan to the 5 gig one before the billing cycle closes out. You will have to call back up and change it back to the lower plan after you get billed.
$10 is for featured phones only. I did speak to a Verizon rep that told me you can change your plan on the fly for an unlimited number of times. So there is a loophole of sorts. Say you are on a 2 gig plan and wind up using 4+ gig's in a month, just call and change the plan to the 5 gig one before the billing cycle closes out. You will have to call back up and change it back to the lower plan after you get billed.
They already do! If you transfer too much data you will get a letter form your internet provider. Just, because they say it's unlimited doesn't mean it really is! It's unlimited under expected use conditions.
Fire up a torrent app and leave it on for a week! You'll get a stop it letter.
So that is your way of not even remotely answering the question of how people using between 5gb-10gb (or that range) actually "slow down" the network?
Traffic numbers on the whole go up...nobody argues that.
Yet this idea of people using a few GB and THUS being the reason for a network slowdown are not just laughable but utterly ridiculous and not ONE PERSON has ever shown how or why this rumor keeps on living
Give me actually proof. Stop living off the general statements given to us daily by Verizon and AT&T
I thought AT&T's data tier was bad.... damn I'm glad I'm not with the, "Can you hear me now?" company! Pretty soon it will be "Can you email me now? Do you have data available?"
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These companies don't want you to know the truth. Either their network is fine and they want to rape our pocket books or they are truly hurting on a daily basis, but won't tell the public the truth because they fear that their network will be lambasted as inferior, not capable of their needed capacity and lose customers or they know of technologies in the near future that will be available on their networks that will cause a huge data pull. Which if that's the case then we have two scenarios. They know the future products and want to make a killing off of people using FaceTime, etc over LTE or they need to limit the data, because the new technology is far more advanced then their networks... or both.
No, but they'll be "pushing" to all your devices. Your iphone is one of those devices, and unless you're doing this via wifi, it's going to eat up data.
Man, I was really looking forward to tethering my imac to my iphone and downloading Lion super fast on Verizon's 4g network...oh wait, I forgot. My iphone isn't 4g capable. oh well.