 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Sprint Here I come. The unlimited data with VZW was the only thing keeping me around. Its amazing how cellphone habits have changed. I have some family plan, 700 minutes. You know how many I used last month? 31. |
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 mmay149qPremium
join:2009-03-05
Dallas, TX
kudos:48 | said by baineschile:Here I come. The unlimited data with VZW was the only thing keeping me around. Its amazing how cellphone habits have changed. I have some family plan, 700 minutes. You know how many I used last month? 31.
Agree'd, if they force me out of my unlimited data on my new Thunderbolt I'll be gone from VZW and most likely going with Sprint, I think Sprint roams on VZW's network right?
Matt
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WHT
join:2010-03-26
Rosston, TX
kudos:5 | Say Bye Bye to Unlimited Data /sarcasm
Wow, I didn't see that coming!
said by Verizon CFO Fran Shammo :
After this change the company will look to soften the blow
An admission they know how consumers will see LTE as very expensive. |
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 Woody79_00I run Linux am I still a PC?Premium
join:2004-07-08
united state | reply to mmay149q
Re: Sprint same here
if they force me off my Unlimited data, then i'll take my 150+ dollars a month elsewhere  |
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| Pricing on family plan? I wonder what the price for family plan data buckets will be? Hopefully it will be cheaper than having 3 or 4 $30/mo. data plans attached to the account... |
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 woody7Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA | reply to Woody79_00
Re: Sprint I just got an Inspire phone through ATT, got the 2 gig data plan, which isn't much, but between the wifi, and pass through internet option ( kind of like tethering ) don't use much of the wireless other than calls. this country sucks when it comes to wireless.
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 icp1Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO | irony No irony at all with the other half of verizon saying the opposite on the FIOS side (for now)
»Verizon Still Doesn't See the Need for Caps |
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mmay149qPremium
join:2009-03-05
Dallas, TX
kudos:48 | reply to WHT
Re: Say Bye Bye to Unlimited Data said by WHT:An admission they know how consumers will see LTE as very expensive.
More like an admission that they know consumers won't be too happy and will know they are getting screwed (if overages are included) I still have more faith in VZW on consumer happiness than I do some other companies, but I'm curious if this "keep your unlimited data with LTE!!!" pull to get people over has been a "testing ground" to see what all the network will handle, and what average data people are pulling to set the caps/family caps/etc at a reasonable level.
See I don't see why they can't just have different plans for different people, so IE Customer A Needs the phone to always have full bandwidth 100% of the time for work or whatever, so Customer A buys a data plans with XGB cap and will pay reasonable overages after passing that cap (especially if the monthly data charge is lowered because of this)
and another option for Customer B that says "Well you have XGB cap on your 4G and after you pass this cap you are then throttled back to CDMA/EDGE speeds)
To be honest, I don't even see why any company would want to throttle anyone back to dial up speeds on their mobile, yeah it will let you browse Facebook or etc on your phone, and yeah it will let you do most things online you want to do with your cell, but it majorly limits you, whereas bumping down to 3G speeds still allows you to do most things, why ruin the customers experience?
Matt
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Re: Sprint Yes they can roam on Verizon network but it is limited to 300MB a month. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to icp1
Re: irony No irony at all considering network capacities are significantly different between the two offerings. |
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Re: Sprint You're grandfathered in. |
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 SkipdawgThe OriginalPremium,ExMod 2001-03
join:2001-04-19
Mount Vernon, WA | reply to Woody79_00
I left AT&T for their nonsense. If this is happening with VW then yes I'll go to Sprint too and if they do it I'll just go to a simple prepaid burn phone and say the heck with it all. I kept my land line for a reason. I saw them ALL getting stupid. |
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icp1Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO | reply to openbox9
Re: irony said by openbox9:No irony at all considering network capacities are significantly different between the two offerings.
Major irony, because they are the same company. What you are saying is its ok not to invest in network capacity for wireless and just charge for that lack of foresight? Huh, sound like anyone else in the market these days?? |
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 trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | I have plans to jump the AT&T ship in a year... I have plans to jump the AT&T ship in a year to Verizon. I hope that their data plans will be more in line with sanity as versus AT&T in which their data plans are just plain stupid!
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ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC Reviews:
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 ·Verizon Broadban..
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Re: Sprint Agreed. Everyone that has unlimited now will be grandfathered. Though, at some point, they'll figure out a way to get you un-grandfathered.
Should that point come, I'll just get a plain ole no-data-at-all-phone.
It's like my 3G data card. Grandfathered in to the unlimited plan. They'll have to pry that account from my cold, dead hands. And if they do, I'll just turn it off. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to icp1
Re: irony No, they are actually different companies, with Verizon Communications, Inc. owning a 55% share of Cellco Partnership, d.b.a. Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless has, and is, investing heavily in wireless infrastructure and capacity. |
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Re: Sprint Excuse me, I am wrong I think.
Sprint Smartphones should have unlimited data roaming - I checked my data usage on sprint.com and it says Unlimited on Data Roaming part.
So the tethering plans has the 300MB data roaming limitation. |
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mmay149qPremium
join:2009-03-05
Dallas, TX
kudos:48 | reply to icp1
Re: irony I don't have a article to back it up, because I can't find it, but there was a article put out within the last year talking about VZW saying they will throttle people and they are already putting it into practice, you never know, VZW has had a long time to sit back and see what happens with AT&T going to caps and overages on the cell data, they may just go the way of T-Mobile and throttle you after a certain usage limit.
Also VZW and FiOS are technically two separate companies just so you know. That's the way it's setup.
Matt
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| Great More of this crap.
I hate to say this but, we might just go back to the old days before internet use. Go back to paper billing and checks. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to mmay149q
Re: irony VZW added the throttling verbiage to it's ToS last year and there were a few articles/discussions on the matter. |
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