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i got the text yesterday and got the same old thing from the CSR. smartphone blah blah.
I was on the 30$ everything plan and now its 25$ for 2gb and $20 for unlimited texts.
Is there anything I can say to the rep tomorrow when I call back? I was on that previous plan ($30) for a long time, couple years I think.
Been at att for 13 years.
I have a tmo N1 also, I could switch but I don't know about their coverage down here.
I don't I'm beating a dead horse, I'm sorry. I did do some searching before hand.
any advice?
I can't help you but to say that I received the exact same awful news this week. I can't understand how they feel justified in doing this since I am not under contract and my plan was grandfathered in. I am going to call them tomorrow and let them know how I feel but I doubt it helps. I guess I'll just have to take my four phones elsewhere.
I literally had nothing to say to the guy after he came back from having me on hold. 30$ was the smart plan back two years ago wasn't it? So now it's not and we need $15 more dollars from you?
I'd rather pay google for good VOIP.
I can't find prices for tmo even more plus plans online anymore, I know they use to be there?
Legally, because they changed your plan, you can back out of their service without an early termination fee. That's probably the best thing you can do.
They do periodic scans... Once it happens automatically there's nothing you can do to get the cheap unlimited plan back. If you ask nicely you CAN get the unlimited data plan, but of course you'll pay $30 for it.
What can you do to mitigate it? I suppose you could use Wifi more, if you listen to streaming music a lot perhaps instead buy a bigger SD card and listen to music from there? Don't stream videos to it?
Personally I have only gone a hair over 1G since I've had my Nexus One, but I stream music only a few hours a month and otherwise it's market updates, email, data syncing etc.
I got switched back a few weeks ago myself too, but this time instead of exploding I figured there's nothing you can do about it, at least in the long term, except for talking from your wallet. When you contract is up, move somewhere else and tell AT&T why.
They keep giving us broader access to fast cellular data, keep making it faster, but continue to reduce what we can use of it. Same with home broadband, friend has 20mbit cable broadband at his house but it drops to like 1mbit/sec if he uses more than 5G/month.
I don't have a contract. I'm going to check a tmo sim in my house and see how the coverage is. Maybe switch after a final call to att. I have atmo n1 also.
silly thing is I've never went over 250mb a month. BUT what's the point of watching or keeping track of how much data you've used when you pay these Fu**s 1200 a year?
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I don't have a contract. I'm going to check a tmo sim in my house and see how the coverage is. Maybe switch after a final call to att. I have atmo n1 also.
silly thing is I've never went over 250mb a month. BUT what's the point of watching or keeping track of how much data you've used when you pay these Fu**s 1200 a year?
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exactly ! and, when the advertisement says UNLIMITED, by god that's what I'm paying for. if/when a telco throttles my account for using "too much" i'm suing.
so far this month, 4Gb. i'm on tmo, and while the out-of-town coverage isn't great, i'm never too far off the interstate for it to matter.
vote with your money. not like they care, with 20 million iphone users coughing up whatever amount they are told to. ;-)
well, there ain't jack the retention people can do. Been at att for 12 years now.
It's impossible to go back I guess. Also you can't just have voice voice or data alone. Thought about having two sims active at the same time, one from tmo and one from att.
According to him there is only 200mb or 2gb plans no matter what you had before they auto switch you.
What he did do was switch me to a 29.99 voice with rollover instead of the lowest advertised 39.99 450 rollover plan.
Drop to 1500 texts a month for $15 instead of unlimited for $20. (which I'm slowly swapping people over to my GV number)
and 2gb data for whatever that price is, I don't remember. But at least my bill is within $5 of what it was the other day.
Att just doesn't really care to much about what they're doing to customers.
I'm still going to go check out tmo and coverage at my house when I have time.
retention guy was cool. I recommend not hanging up or cussing these people.
Att is the devil.
wow, glad i'm on T-mobile i'm using a grandfathered G1 unlimited data/400 texts plan, but if i ever needed unlimited texts i could just upgrade to the even more plan and i would end up with 200 more anytime minutes and unlimited texts along with unlimited data, i currently pay 55 dollars a month total and the current even more plan (no contract plan) is 60 dollars a month.
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I literally had nothing to say to the guy after he came back from having me on hold. 30$ was the smart plan back two years ago wasn't it? So now it's not and we need $15 more dollars from you?
I'd rather pay google for good VOIP.
I can't find prices for tmo even more plus plans online anymore, I know they use to be there?
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The EM+ plans are still available, but you have to go to a store or call T-mo to sign up for that plan.
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exactly ! and, when the advertisement says UNLIMITED, by god that's what I'm paying for. if/when a telco throttles my account for using "too much" i'm suing.
so far this month, 4Gb. i'm on tmo, and while the out-of-town coverage isn't great, i'm never too far off the interstate for it to matter.
vote with your money. not like they care, with 20 million iphone users coughing up whatever amount they are told to. ;-)
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You realize the irony here is that the users who use hoards of data are part of the reason why they keep clamping down? How can you possibly use 4G of data doing semi-normal things? Must be tethering or doing nonsense (like one poster in the past; he was doing daily ROM downloads of multiple ROMs and associated packages...)
ATT sent me a text last night saying I have gone over $200 worth of data charges and my data line is being disabled. Called them today to find out My captivate does NOT have a data plan and instead I have pay per use? (I did not knnow this was possible with smartphones anymore) Anyway I asked to have the charges waived since this was my first time with such a high bill and told them I was having issues with my phone. The rep told me all she can do at this moment is give me a $25 credit towards it, mainly because she can't do anything until its officially on the next bill.
Anyways 3 questions:
1. Has anyone had experience with AT&T being nice and waiving this first time offenses?
2. How the hell do I NOT have a dataplan? I thought at&t was on point with adding data plans to smart phones.
3. Is there a better app for limiting all data except mms? I've been using the free apndroid and it seems buggy on my phone and I never know if its truely limiting data or not.
Thanks in advance
When I first bought my Cappy from best buy they made me set up my data plan right then and there.
They definitely can. When I bought the captivate I had very similar thing happen to me and they fully reversed the charges. It took a couple calls and repeatedly asking for a manager and/or somebody in the complaints department, but I did get my money back.
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When I first bought my Cappy from best buy they made me set up my data plan right then and there.
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They did that to me aswell and also at bestbuy. BUT I used another lines upgrade on our plan to get this phone. So I assumed it would switch to mine when we swapped sims.
No thats absolute garbage, I used to work as an inbound ATT Customer Service Rep, first of all, they can give you up to a $250 credit without asking anybody, I used to do it routinely for people, especially when something like this happened and they wanted to add the plan, I'd wipe the charges, and set em up on the unlimited.
I'd call back or go back in and raise hell, say that it's their fault if they didn't provision you with a plan, it says right in the contract you need to have one. Don't worry, they'll take it off, as far as limiting data, I'm not entirely sure, I don't worry about it op much since I still have my unlimited plan. Good luck tho!
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They did that to me aswell and also at bestbuy. BUT I used another lines upgrade on our plan to get this phone. So I assumed it would switch to mine when we swapped sims.
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Aah yeah I bet thats the issue, is the Data plan is on the wrong line, I don't think it'll automatically switch just from swapping sims.
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ATT sent me a text last night saying I have gone over $200 worth of data charges and my data line is being disabled. Called them today to find out My captivate does NOT have a data plan and instead I have pay per use? (I did not knnow this was possible with smartphones anymore) Anyway I asked to have the charges waived since this was my first time with such a high bill and told them I was having issues with my phone. The rep told me all she can do at this moment is give me a $25 credit towards it, mainly because she can't do anything until its officially on the next bill.
Anyways 3 questions:
1. Has anyone had experience with AT&T being nice and waiving this first time offenses?
2. How the hell do I NOT have a dataplan? I thought at&t was on point with adding data plans to smart phones.
3. Is there a better app for limiting all data except mms? I've been using the free apndroid and it seems buggy on my phone and I never know if its truely limiting data or not.
Thanks in advance
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Yes. They do! Not just these, they even waive accidental charges based on ur history with them. Just be polite and nice with them, and they would do it. It all depends on how u talk to them.
Thank you all for the posts, made me breathe a sigh of relief. Should I still wait until the bill becomes official? Or keep raising hell with them now?
mike3000 said:
Thank you all for the posts, made me breathe a sigh of relief. Should I still wait until the bill becomes official? Or keep raising hell with them now?
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No bother too much. Call up customer care, and tell them to convert ur "pay per use" into a $15 or a $25 plan, and to back date it from the start of ur current billing cycle. this will eliminate surprises when bill comes.
Edit: I did it just in last month's billing cycle. I had the 200 MB plan. But I used like 250 within the first 2 weeks. So I went online, and changed my plan to 2 GB plan and back dated it. All I got this month was a $10 extra, but that's expected since they would charge $25 for this month too, and not $15.
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No bother too much. Call up customer care, and tell them to convert ur "pay per use" into a $15 or a $25 plan, and to back date it from the start of ur current billing cycle. this will eliminate surprises when bill comes.
Edit: I did it just in last month's billing cycle. I had the 200 MB plan. But I used like 250 within the first 2 weeks. So I went online, and changed my plan to 2 GB plan and back dated it. All I got this month was a $10 extra, but that's expected since they would charge $25 for this month too, and not $15.
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I'd like to keep the payper use and just make sure my phone never ever accesses data (besides mms). I'm surrounded by wifi practically everywhere I am and I see no point in me paying for data.
mike3000 said:
I'd like to keep the payper use and just make sure my phone never ever accesses data (besides mms). I'm surrounded by wifi practically everywhere I am and I see no point in me paying for data.
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No worries. Tell them to back-date ur data plan. And when ur next month billing starts, convert that back into a pay per use.
You could consider keeping ur data turned off to avoid these "accidental" usages in future. AT&T might not listen to these requests if repeated.
Log into the att profile and match the phone to your account
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Just be nice and explain that you were never told by a rep when signing up about data and you assumed data would automatically be turned off.
I'd advise on getting the $25 Data plan.
When I first added texting, the person screwed it up and didn't actually add unlimited texting.
Two days later I got a text saying that I had $50 worth of texting fees.
They took care of it, but I think that we ended up paying a $200+ bill and then a sub $100 bill to offset it.
^Good luck with that. They are now requiring ALL smartphone users to have at least the minimum data plan.
I had this happen when I gave my brother an old MyTouch. It was only a $60 charge but I simply called them and told them we didn't realize it was transmitting data (he wasn't using any of the data, it was just background stuff) The rep told me they could reverse the charges and add a retroactive data plan to the beginning of the billing cycle. Brought the $60 charge down to only $15. Simple phone call, just be nice, no reason to cause any trouble with them. Good luck!
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I had this happen when I gave my brother an old MyTouch. It was only a $60 charge but I simply called them and told them we didn't realize it was transmitting data (he wasn't using any of the data, it was just background stuff) The rep told me they could reverse the charges and add a retroactive data plan to the beginning of the billing cycle. Brought the $60 charge down to only $15. Simple phone call, just be nice, no reason to cause any trouble with them. Good luck!
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be nice to them, that's the key. the will reverse the charges. but i don't think they would let u use pay per use. since u have a smartphone u would need to have a min. $15 data plan.
I work for at&t and its common practice to reverse these charges by re-rating the plan. However if youre asking for a credit and not adding a data plan it will be a lot more difficult. In addition data is mandatory on PDAs and you'll have to fight that battle also.
Ps. Like everyone else already said. Be nice!
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**UK ONLY**
THIS IS FOR USERS WHO PURCHASED A "SIM-ONLY" Package.
Hello, I'm not sure if this is allowed here. If not please can it be moved to the right location.
Short story...
I am currently on contract with 3 UK that gives me 100 minutes, 5000 texts and 500MB internet. I am paying £15.32 per month.
I rarely use minutes and don't use anywhere near 5000 texts. So I was thinking how many users are like me, that doesn't really use most of the allowance given to us, but pay for the allowances that we don't actually use.
I have created this short survey that I would like you all to fill out. Please just the UK only!
Here is the survey:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFROQ1ozcklQM2hvUVhNczRJRVZqRGc6MQ
And please spread this round!
I had decided that this would be only for "Sim-Only" users as going on contract with a phone will mess wit the results as you are paying for the phone too.
I'm on contract so i won't fill out the form, but i don't think £15.00 a month is bad at all.
I would like to see carriers introduce data only tariffs though, much like i have with Be* for my internet. For that tariff you would get a larger data allowance but no free calls or texts. Can't see them going for it though.
Anyway, good luck with your survey! Let us know your results when you're done?
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I'm on contract so i won't fill out the form, but i don't think £15.00 a month is bad at all.
I would like to see carriers introduce data only tariffs though, much like i have with Be* for my internet. For that tariff you would get a larger data allowance but no free calls or texts. Can't see them going for it though.
Anyway, good luck with your survey! Let us know your results when you're done?
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I believe 3 do a data only tariff.
£15 a month IMO is a bit much for what I use. I just want the option to reduce my allowance a save a few £. I'm sure a lot of users would also appreciate this.
I also had an idea which led me to create this survey. See picture.
You get a fixed amount of minutes and you can change how many texts or data you want. You can sacrifice some texts for some more data allowance. You can adjust on a monthly basis. I have set the price to compete with the 3 network as they have the cheapest tariffs with mobile data included.
I was thinking of opening a Mobile Virtual Network Operator like GifGaf and Tesco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_MVNO#United_Kingdom
But I have no experience in any of them sectors and I'm not a business person. I just have an idea.
Perhaps I should pass my idea with the major networks? But will be hard to contact.
I'd post results if i get any XD
You've got me thinking now. I'm paying £30 a month for what amounts to 500MB of data. I don't really call or text at all. (Forever alone.jpg)
And you think you're overpaying!
DirkGently1 said:
You've got me thinking now. I'm paying £30 a month for what amounts to 500MB of data. I don't really call or text at all. (Forever alone.jpg)
And you think you're overpaying!
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Well you are paying for a phone too
So I've just been notified that i am in the top 5% of data usage and I have been throttled BIG TIME. From getting 8000-10,000kb down to now only getting 150 down. Are you kidding me att?
The kicker is I've only used 2gb of data! Is this att's way of finally trying to make the unlimited plan disappear?
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So I've just been notified that i am in the top 5% of data usage and I have been throttled BIG TIME. From getting 8000-10,000kb down to now only getting 150 down. Are you kidding me att?
The kicker is I've only used 2gb of data! Is this att's way of finally trying to make the unlimited plan disappear?
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Damn... wish I could say I didn't expect this.
If I begin to get throttled at 2GB, I will request a hard copy of the report of all AT&T users Data usage... seems only fair if they can determine I am in the top 5%, that I should be able to see their proof... Plus I assume it would cost them a bt of money to print that and mail it.
Thankfully it has not happened yet.
It may be regional. I am near ny. Point is this. If 3 months ago the top 5% of user were getting double digits in data usage, how the help does that drop so fast when more and more people are getting fast smart phones that use more data.
Something is fishy.
Where are the lawyers on this forum. This is the end of unlimited data as we know it. **** you AT&T
Yeah, unfortunately its not the top 5% of users, its the top 5% of "unlimited" users. All these people that are getting smartphones or have got smartphones in the last almost 2 years cant get unlimited data unless they already had it and are grandfathered in. As people change their data plans for plans with tethering, leave AT&T, or just drop their unlimited data for one reason or another, stop being factored into that number. As the number of unlimited users drop, so will the amount of data that you have to use to be considered to be in the top 5%.
The fields from which they use are plan-unlimited platform-android then they narrow it down to LTE and since there are not alot if LTE users especially with unlimited they do it quick I have a sgs ii with unlimited and I was at 6gb on hspa and 3g and 3 gb on my vivid , guess which one got the throttle message.....
I went crazy on att about this , I got credit but its automated....
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I am not even on LTE here. It's all hspa. Throttled at 2gb. Such bull****.
Devin.Morris.007 said:
Yeah, unfortunately its not the top 5% of users, its the top 5% of "unlimited" users. All these people that are getting smartphones or have got smartphones in the last almost 2 years cant get unlimited data unless they already had it and are grandfathered in. As people change their data plans for plans with tethering, leave AT&T, or just drop their unlimited data for one reason or another, stop being factored into that number. As the number of unlimited users drop, so will the amount of data that you have to use to be considered to be in the top 5%.
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This will eventually lead to selflimitation, people will start using less and less, and we'll might even see throttling after 1GB in the future (top 5%)...
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ClippinWings said:
Damn... wish I could say I didn't expect this.
If I begin to get throttled at 2GB, I will request a hard copy of the report of all AT&T users Data usage... seems only fair if they can determine I am in the top 5%, that I should be able to see their proof... Plus I assume it would cost them a bt of money to print that and mail it.
Thankfully it has not happened yet.
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You will probably probably see it soon. They didn't even send me a notice telling me that I'm approaching top 5% and I wasn't even at 3GB. I remember it happened exactly a week ago on the 1st of the month, as I watching some clips in the afternoon and everything was just as usual, then later that night when I popped open the browser, NOTHING would load correctly. NOTHING!!! Freakin eh...
At first I thought I had a bad connection, then when I got to an area to 5 bars it was still giving me 150. I switched apn and got hspa speed back and thought maybe ATT is doing some maintenance work or something, they couldn't be throttling me at a shade below 3GB. Needless to say, my billing cycle starts on the 3rd of the month and of course LTE came back on.....THROTTLED!!!!!
If they are going to throttle (not that I agree throttling at 2GB is right, because it is downright RIDICULOUS), at least cap it to a speed where people can still somewhat browse the web, 150 is F*cking stupid. Normally I'm not a person to display extreme anger in forums, but this has gotten me to be pretty pissed at how they are BSing the unlimited customers.
So what can we do about this? Can we get some sort of class action lawsuit going? I dont know how to do any of this but I think we have the right to make a big stink about this.
Face it we are getting ****ed right now!
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You will probably probably see it soon. They didn't even send me a notice telling me that I'm approaching top 5% and I wasn't even at 3GB. I remember it happened exactly a week ago on the 1st of the month, as I watching some clips in the afternoon and everything was just as usual, then later that night when I popped open the browser, NOTHING would load correctly. NOTHING!!! Freakin eh...
At first I thought I had a bad connection, then when I got to an area to 5 bars it was still giving me 150. I switched apn and got hspa speed back and thought maybe ATT is doing some maintenance work or something, they couldn't be throttling me at a shade below 3GB. Needless to say, my billing cycle starts on the 3rd of the month and of course LTE came back on.....THROTTLED!!!!!
If they are going to throttle (not that I agree throttling at 2GB is right, because it is downright RIDICULOUS), at least cap it to a speed where people can still somewhat browse the web, 150 is F*cking stupid. Normally I'm not a person to display extreme anger in forums, but this has gotten me to be pretty pissed at how they are BSing the unlimited customers.
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It's their way of thanking us for being customers of theirs over the years. I was Cingular before att bought them. Gsm carriers that can compete against the titans are not in my area. Sad times indeed
Edit: Does anyone have a few billion dollars lying around or some wealthy investors that would be interested in starting up another US cellular company? Lol. No or sparse competition has allowed this to happen
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I got throttled once I hit 2GB too. So unlimited means <2GB at LTE speeds for $30 but you can pay $30 for 3GB. Got to give it to ATT, unlimited data but speed will vary drastically. For me it was less than 100KB. From 20MBps to 100kbps. Pretty sad.
It's not just LTE. It's hspa too.
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It's not just LTE. It's hspa too.
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Yup, but lte users can create a HSPA APN and avoid the throttle while using the HSPA network.
Please explain. Becuase I normally use the stock pta apn, but also have the hspa+ one and the wap.Cingular one that I have added in, and all of them were throttled the same for me.
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Please explain. Becuase I normally use the stock pta apn, but also have the hspa+ one and the wap.Cingular one that I have added in, and all of them were throttled the same for me.
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I used the apn from this thread when I was throttled on LTE and was able to get back HSPA speeds for the remainder of my billing cyle.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338109
I have been getting throttled every month around 3gb about 10 days each time from my billing cycle end date, the last 2 months I didn't even receive a warning or a throttle message, just happened.
Haven't been on an unlimited plan for some time..out of curiosity..this only pertains to those grandfathered in on an unlimited plan correct?
Sent from my HTC... 'nuff said.
Ohhh.. look what I found
looks like people are starting to take notice. I pay 160 /mo for 3 phones and have been with them for many years. I'm waiting for them to nail me, but someone needs to take them to court. So just because 5% heavily use their unlimited plan they are impose this BS.. OK so the other 95% that dont do they rest discounts since they dont use that much?. what crap
I'm so pissed at this I'm going to run 6 hours of Netflix tonight!
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Haven't been on an unlimited plan for some time..out of curiosity..this only pertains to those grandfathered in on an unlimited plan correct?
Sent from my HTC... 'nuff said.
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Unlimited users only. The pay per gb plans do not see any throttling. More usage on those plans = more revenue
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OK, so I realized that our long standing unlimited plans are going away. Fair enough, but I've finally done the math and we are all going to get boned in a BIG way (minimum of 25% increase in bill). This is almost enough to go back to the dark ages and forget my stupid cell phone service all together. But before I take the leap out into the vast void, I figured maybe someone else was pawing over this and done some research of their own?
So here's the question I pose:
What's the smartest route to go now? I've been thinking about coverage issues, and obviously Verizon has the biggest reach, but I'm thinking this last "less than tactful" boning was the last straw.
Is anyone else about to flush Verizon, or am I alone in this?
6GB + Cell = $120. 4GB + Cell = $100. I'm not sure whether to laugh, or cry?
I'm paying ~$70... Umm... Seems like Verizon is the new Ma Bell on the block?
Verizon has definitely screwed over the single phone customers.
with that, it's not any better... $59.99 for 450 minutes/unlimited text, plus $30 for 2GB of data
a huge savings of $10.
edit: forgot to mention, if you want more than 2GB, you have to go with the Shared Everything plan even though you're just one person. totally blows.
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Verizon has definitely screwed over the single phone customers.
with that, it's not any better... $59.99 for 450 minutes/unlimited text, plus $30 for 2GB of data
a huge savings of $10.
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Ah... Unlimited text. Hmm.. I forgot people are big into texting. OK, so I guess this won't be a system shock for everyone like it is for me. More like slowly turning up the heat on the frog in the pot.
I currently pay about $82 a month for 4GB 450 minutes and 250 texts with nights and weekends and mobile to mobile I don't even get close to the limits on anything. If I had to switch to the share 1GB would be $90 and the 4GB like I have now would be $110 and that doesn't even include taxes and fees. You can get the prepaid smart phone with 1GB for $80 but even that would be more that we are paying now. The only people who save money with these plans are going to be people with multiple devices that don't use a lot of data. It's a good deal if you use a lot of minutes or text a lot, but there are so many alternatives you can use that I cant see this being good for anyone really. I will stay as long as I can keep my current plan otherwise I will just switch to Sprint.
Was just looking at Sprint...
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I currently pay about $82 a month for 4GB 450 minutes and 250 texts with nights and weekends and mobile to mobile I don't even get close to the limits on anything. If I had to switch to the share 1GB would be $90 and the 4GB like I have now would be $110 and that doesn't even include taxes and fees. You can get the prepaid smart phone with 1GB for $80 but even that would be more that we are paying now. The only people who save money with these plans are going to be people with multiple devices that don't use a lot of data. It's a good deal if you use a lot of minutes or text a lot, but there are so many alternatives you can use that I cant see this being good for anyone really. I will stay as long as I can keep my current plan otherwise I will just switch to Sprint.
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Based on the reviews here in Colorado, and the price difference, as well as the good selection of phones, I'm 99% confident that if Verizon doesn't pull their heads out by summer/fall of next year, I'm jumping to Sprint as well.
This is why I haven't been looking to upgrade. Red might loose a long time customer.
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I currently pay about $82 a month for 4GB 450 minutes and 250 texts with nights and weekends and mobile to mobile I don't even get close to the limits on anything. If I had to switch to the share 1GB would be $90 and the 4GB like I have now would be $110 and that doesn't even include taxes and fees. You can get the prepaid smart phone with 1GB for $80 but even that would be more that we are paying now. The only people who save money with these plans are going to be people with multiple devices that don't use a lot of data. It's a good deal if you use a lot of minutes or text a lot, but there are so many alternatives you can use that I cant see this being good for anyone really. I will stay as long as I can keep my current plan otherwise I will just switch to Sprint.
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I currently pay around $150 with 1 smart phone and 4 basic. 1400 mins and 150 mb. The new Screw me plan for the exact same except 2 gb would cost me $220 and I lose most of an employee discount for where I work. I checked T-Mobile and they have a comparable plan to where I'm at and u would wind up paying right around where I am right one. Vzw will lose this customer from 1999.
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I had 2 phone line with 1400 mins shared and 4g on each phone. I used all 4 every month and my wife hardly used any. I also had unlimited texting. Now i have unlimited calls and texting and 4 g shared and im saving 30 a month. So i guess it helped me out. Seeing as we were only using 4g a month anyways.
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I'm currently grandfathered in with unlimited text and data and pretty much refuse to sign a new contract under these new guidelines so I will just keep this plan I have and won't bother buying my phones from them now if their gonna try to charge me full retail, I just picked up a new nexus for $300 on ebay FU Verizon!!!
same boat here... im grandfathered in under the old unlimited plan, but once this contract is up come next May, im jumping on my wife's family share plan with Sprint. Then ill have a better phone, unlimited everything again, and only pay 35.00 per/mo since its chipping in on the plan. WAY better then the 76.00 im paying now and that includes an 18% corperate discount..
Seriously Verizon? get real.
jaymazz13 said:
I'm currently grandfathered in with unlimited text and data and pretty much refuse to sign a new contract under these new guidelines so I will just keep this plan I have and won't bother buying my phones from them now if their gonna try to charge me full retail, I just picked up a new nexus for $300 on ebay FU Verizon!!!
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word it's all about just not upping on a new contract. well worth the price of a phone
youknowmeman said:
word it's all about just not upping on a new contract. well worth the price of a phone
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I am thinking going the ebay route, but I am afraid I will get a stolen phone....
I'm grandfathered in on my unlimited too. I got my Revo before they made the upgrade change...lucky me...I have my DX to my partner and her D1 to our daughter. My daughter doesn't need a 4G phone...and because my partner only uses her phone to call people...and doesn't need a 4G either.
I pay way too much a month for only 2000 shared minutes...family and friends (10)...unlimited text and data = $245 on 3 lines.
We is decide to buy Amazon or eBay for upgrades if we decide to get better phones for them.
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osafer said:
I am thinking going the ebay route, but I am afraid I will get a stolen phone....
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even if you buy retail i think it's still worth it for the unlimited data.. that being said usually stolen phones won't come with the box & docs so that's a safe way to tell
I bought my past few phones off craigslist, cheaper than ebay, and I always have them meet me at a verizon store.
So you have Verizon activate the phone and then you pay the person you're buying it from after you know it's good to go?
YUP! Well that's what happened last time. Most of the time you can just meet at the Verizon store and have one of the clerks check the ESN# to make sure it hasn't been reported lost or stolen, so normally you dont need to have the seller wait round for activation.
Great tip!
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even if you buy retail i think it's still worth it for the unlimited data.. that being said usually stolen phones won't come with the box & docs so that's a safe way to tell
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I agree. I sold my REVO and got a Galaxy Nexus so I could keep my unlimited, and I'll never buy a phone from a Verizon store again. I'll keep upgrading via ebay or craigslist and just keep replacing my phone. That way I never have to renew my contract and I get to keep unlimited.
I'm on a family plan. Does this mean upgrading any phone would cause a change in the plan for all of us? I don't think I could hold off all the family members very long to keep the old plan.
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