| Really! Consumers don't like price hikes?
I'm shocked.
It's also the reason I'm on prepaid.
VZW kept getting more expensive for less service. |
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kudos:1 | or if you're the only game in town.
Verizon is so damn expensive for such little service. However it's the only thing that works in my city. |
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 BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | Study is BS Go check out churn rates. For example Verizon's churn is under 1% per quarter. Considering around 12% of their customers come out of contract each quarter and thus would be free to leave anytime without penalty I have a hard time believing this study. |
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | reply to Mike
Re: Really! If Verizon is the only carrier that bothered to provide you city with service I wouldn't call that a "little" service. Instead of bashing Verizon how about bashing at&t, T-mobile and Sprint for nothing bothering with your area AT ALL? |
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I certainly could be wrong, but I kinda have a hard time believing that VZW is the "only" wireless carrier that works in Pittsburgh, PA... |
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| reply to BF69
I switched the Virgin Mobile and haven't been happier with my service at $35/mo. Verizon was abysmal for me both at work and at home. People deride Sprint's network, but it just works better for me. |
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You merely adopted garbage cell coverage.
I was born in it, molded by it. I had shitty Sprint and ATT phones. I didn’t see the light until I had a Verizon phone. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding fast speed.
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3 edits | Just use what is cheapest. Been with Sprint for many years, mainly do to the 24% work discount. Still with two phones the bill comes out to $73 with taxes on the $69 family plan.
Since we are low usage under 500 minutes and just a few text messages. I bit the bullet this weekend and transferred both my Sprint phones and numbers to Ting. Total bill should be around $30. |
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| Verizon *sigh* I'm with Verizon right now and want to switch carriers because I'm tired of paying this $170 phone bill every month for two smartphones and one dumb phone.
But Verizon has the best selection of phones. AT&T would be priced right around the same amount. I'll never go back to Sprint after the service they provided me ten years ago.
I want a no contract phone but all the no contract phone carriers have crap phones that are way behind in tech. I mean if I wanted to go back to Android 2.3... then I guess I would switch today lol. |
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Re: Study is BS Or they did the math and AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile would not be cheaper for them. Especially if your family is not all on the same contract end date. I took a bath ($75 or so) when we switched to Verizon as our 1 line was a couple months prior to the contract end date.
I think that's what keeps people there. |
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Re: Verizon *sigh* said by Body Count:But Verizon has the best selection of phones. AT&T would be priced right around the same amount. I'll never go back to Sprint after the service they provided me ten years ago.
Making a decision today based on an experience a decade ago...sounds reasonable.  |
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| I'm on Verizon and like them I'm on Verizon postpaid right now and I'm happy with them.
I was loyal to AT&T but their service quality started to decline so I went back to Verizon.
I prefer Verizon but a few years ago their service in Springfield (MA) was spotty. Their coverage in Iowa was excellent. Now Springfield has good VZW reception and is now better than AT&T.
I like the LTE as it is very fast and I don't even notice a difference between LTE and my home Wi-Fi.
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Re: Verizon *sigh* I started with Verizon and left. I didn't like some of their billing practices. I went to TMO, and have stayed as I can more or less do things my way.
I have one dumb phone, one line on hold (daughter's use when she is in the States, and my Nexus 4. We don't need unlimited everything. We all have voice and text, I have data.
TMO also knows I have rooted my phone, and therefore half the garbage services are gone. I prefer GSM. TMO has also let me use unlocked European phones (purchased from Amazon) on the network. I buy my own phones so I don't need a subsidy.
Buy your own phone. The Nexus 4 isn't bad, and you can use it on TMO, and Solevei for example. The GSM Nexus line bought from Google also gets the first updates to the phones since no carriers are involved. They are unlocked to begin with. |
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T-mobile's Monthly 4g is BYOD(bring any GSM device) for its pre-paid service. I like to partner a nice phone with super cheap pre-paid service. You pay for the device up front, but of course save a boat load without the expensive contract for 2 years. |
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Re: Study is BS 100% correct. I convert friends to prepaid like it is going out of style. I have had 0% success w/ people having 3+ lines because no surprise contract dates are all over the place and the way the contracts are structured is that the primary line takes the "hit" and the 2+ lines are more reasonably priced. If they converted to share everything, that first gig or two is VERY expensive so dropping a line becomes punitive if now that person has to drop $45+ (prepaid) when they are only paying $55-$60 AND get a subsidized phone. Add to the fact that data limits on prepaid are sketchy at best or they throttle and don't clearly disclose what the throttle speed is.
I am here to say that 3+ lines almost always makes sense to go postpaid, unless you have monster data usage because the phone subsidies play out here. When someone gets into a contract, they sort of know how the network functions. The only network that has taken a shi**er is Sprint, the others have only gotten better. Even crappy AT&T now has decent coverage in NYC and Boston w/ Wifi offloading.
Also people a "familiar" and if the service is good and they make it easy to get into a new contract, there is no churn. So while people may complain about price, they are not going to move.
The $10 is funny, because if you look @ how T and VZ did things, they didn't actually raise prices, they hid them in shared data. When you buy an airline ticket, you shop on the price... When you get to the airport and they whack you $25 you complain but buy it. Nobody told you Jetblue or Southwest you can avoid that fee.. Most people have other things to worry about, so they just pay.
I sorta felt bad (not really) buying my Mrs used phones for years. She never really complained about the rooted phones and bugs phones EXCEPT for the crappy cameras. Now that the Nexus 4 is here and the camera is awesome she is just happy. My point: Prepaid now has some classy phones --finally-- and postpaid is under attack. I can't tell you how much I like here Nexus 4 compared to my toy iphone. |
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kudos:1 | Coverage matters I have had At&t and its predecessors Cingular and Houston Cellular since 2000 and the main reason I have not left is because of their coverage. In most parts of Texas no one beats At&t for coverage, not even Verizon, especially indoors. There are so many areas, rural and in the cities where it is the only one that works. I also have a Verizon hotspot and have had it for a few years and used it to compare their coverage. The main advantage Verizon has is more widespread LTE coverage. I have also tried T-Mobile and Sprint and they both have horrid coverage in the cities and don't even bother trying to use them in rural areas!
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| Hmmm like sprint I've had Sprint for many many years and have little to gripe about. I pick up my cell phone and it works. I don't have dropped calls, the system is up and running and they offer me a family plan that meets my needs. Yeah they don't offer the blinding fast networks but what good is a fast connection if your CAP is so friggin low it makes no logical sense. I'm not a slave to the "gotta have the latest and greatest" phone addict. I have an EVO4G ( My only big gripe with Sprint is the 10.00 a month for "premium data" never did get what premium data is especially since the 4G service is scarce to non-existent in my immediate vicinity) and before that a RL7300 and various replacement phones (mostly due to losing the damned things. Guess I've been lucky . I'll stay with Sprint for a while longer because Sprint works for me. If they start the bumps in fees approaching 10% then that's another story |
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| Other issues when thinking about switching There are other issues when you think about switching though.
Amongst the larger wireless carriers who have reasonably equal coverage footprints, the offerings are all within a few dollars of each their for the equivalent packages, minus of course anything you can wrangle out of them to get you to switch to their service.
Also at issue is whether you would have to buy a new phone if you switched, if your phone is unlocked you might be able to get a few dollars off your monthly bill if you switch.
Add to that the ETF and the issues around porting your number if you want to keep it and yeah, most people might talk a big game, but to actually switch carriers is a whole other exercise.
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Re: Study is BS Decent service in NYC for ATT? ATT can't provide decent service in NYC if their life depended on it. I can't carry on a conversation with my son in NYC with his phone dropping on the shitty ATT coverage they provide in Brooklyn Manhattan in other parts. Oh they are quite willing to charge you for a signal boosting device to piggyback on your Internet connection so you can get cell phone service and try to make you think they are doing you a favor. Guess everyone has a different experience. ATT for me sucks hind tit! |
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