| Why I'm canceling This is why I'm canceling Verizon and switching to prepaid T-Mobile.
$30/month for 5GB data, unlimited texting, 100 minutes.
They might not have the best coverage, but where I live it's more than enough with HSPA+. |
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 mech1164I'll Be Back
join:2001-11-19
Lodi, NJ | I wholeheartedly agree, VZW is barely doing lip service to the new reality. People have finally been forced to DO the math. Guess what WE are cheap. Give us something that saves for us we will come, in droves no doubt. Now though Tmo needs to make a point as to how much you can save. That's the killer point. |
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| switching carriers It never ceases to amaze me how many people are always saying they are leaving Verizon, yet Verizon keeps adding post-paid customers by the millions every quarter. And the more exorbitant their plans get, the more people they snare. Me being one of them.
I just don't get it. |
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| reply to NateCohen
Re: Why I'm canceling I switched to Simple Mobile back in November (T-Mobile MVNO) and couldn't be happier. $50 for all-you-can-eat talk, text, domestic and international text and 4G speeds.
I am considering the same $30 T-Mobile pre-paid plan you're about to get into and simply porting my cell number to Google Voice. I just don't want my number permanently parked with Google in case I change my mind later on.
Anybody know if Google keeps your number forever or can you port it away from Google if you want? |
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| reply to podstolom
Re: switching carriers It's their TV commercials. They make you feel all warm and fussy inside. |
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 juilinsandarTexas GoonerPremium
join:2000-07-17
San Benito, TX
·RoadRunner Cable
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Verizon is the Mercedes/BMW/Cadillac of the cellphone world. You get what you pay for.
If you want a better pricing while still using Verizon's 3G(not 4G(yet)) network try their mvno, Page Plus Cellular. I signed up for the $55 plan which has unlimited talk & text and 2Gb of data per month. For $69.95 you can get up the data upped to 5Gb of data.
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| reply to Network Guy
Re: Why I'm canceling You can port numbers from google voice in most cases, however I've heard a lot of stories about the process being a real pain. |
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| reply to Network Guy
Re: switching carriers No. Cowsumers find that it is easier to bitch, moan, and complain than it is to do something about it.
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I do not, have not, and will not work for AT&T/Comcast/Verizon/Charter or similar sized company. |
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| reply to juilinsandar
Sorry to say but that's a bunch of bullshit.
Verizon operates a network just like the next carrier. There's nothing high class about them other than the choke hold they place on people's wallets for this very same perception of service.
The only exception to that is Sprint. They REALLY don't know what they're doing anymore. |
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| reply to NateCohen
Re: Why I'm canceling You do realize their current pricing is $80 for 1 GB. So $70 for 2 GB I would say is an improvement. Also ther is now a lower priced options for people who claim to never use much data. I'm not getting what the issue is?
Oh and good luck with that "unlimited" data from t-mobile. At least Verizon is being upfront. It's 500 MB or 2 GB. T-mobile is flat out lying when they say unlimited. Yeah unlimited 2G speeds. Enjoy the 256 kbps data. |
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| reply to podstolom
Re: switching carriers People on forums like this are not the typical consumer, the typical consumer has Verizon in NJ, most users also don't think about changing carriers. the different between Verizon and Sprint or T-mobile coverage was night and day in NJ, 5 years ago, now any of them is good enough.
The fact that you couldn't get a subsidized handset and hold onto unlimited day, lost them quite a few of the users here, but not so much among the average users. Also GSM handsets are so much easier to swap and often cheaper at second hand places like ebay. |
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 VanPremium
join:2009-07-08
New Orleans, LA | reply to podstolom
Where else would most go?
In most cities that I have worked in, there is only 1-2 choices to actually make when it comes to getting good signals around the cities....AT&T or Verizon....sometimes Sprint/T-Mobile but their signals are just atrocious in most places that I have been. |
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Well there what are the choice in the American market?
AT&T or VZ, who are basically (over)priced the same
TMobile, who is a few dollars cheaper yet has the smallest network and uses a 3G freq that no one else on the planet uses.
The you have sprint, who still assumes that value means paying as much as the first two, but offering unlimited. And of course, everything is 'coming soon' - 8 years and counting now
Most of the prepaid choices are half-baked companies who couldn't care less about CS. |
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| reply to Network Guy
You mean Sprint and their dialup speed 3G evdo network or their decade long 'coming soon' saga.
Verizon is the best in the American market and they know it. That is why the price the way they do. They don't need to bother trying to compete. |
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So in retrospect maybe leaving all of those companies to save a buck years ago didn't turn out to be such a great idea after all. Just like the days of Dial Up short term consumer greed ran all of the choices out of business because people left to save a buck or two. Now you can fast forward many years to where there is little choice because the many choices that once existed either went bankrupt or saw the writing on the wall an sold out before it was too late.
If you want to bitch at anyone bitch at your fellow cowsumers...
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Its all about perception.
Verizon perceives that it is the American markets next best thing since sliced bread, and has enough people sold on that perception that they can charge for it, and get away with it, for 'fear' that you might not have precious LTE in every corner of the county.
Sorry - I'm not going to pay for something I don't need. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | reply to juilinsandar
More like Lexus; an overpriced Toyota with some bling, still very reliable  AT&T is the Escalade that's stuck in traffic. |
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| what about lte ? hopefully they will offer the option of an swappable LTE sim instead of service on a cdma device. |
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| Well i can't denied it But Verizon has one heck of a service all over the northEast. Where ever you go you get service but i do agree. Their pricing SUCK!!!. I mean come on you want more customers then compete pricing wise. Why is it that you have to pay over 60 for 500 mb? i mean even the MVNO give you better heck even MetroPCS give you all you can eat for that price. |
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| reply to NateCohen
Re: Why I'm canceling Do you a link for that? Or is it a grandfathered old plan?
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