If you go on the Verizon website and look at their tablet data plans, they have a prepaid option and a month-to-month option. The prepaid option doesn't have an activation fee, but the month-to-month does have an activation fee. I just need 3G data for a week while I'm on vacation, so I'm not interested in paying a lot of money. I've talked to multiple Verizon people and they say the prepaid plan is only for the iPad2 , even though their website and in-store promotional material says "tablets" and never excludes other tablets. Does anyone here have any experience dealing with Verizon's prepaid service?
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My cellular contract is up in April, and I'm thinking about getting rid of AT&T, since their customer service isn't so great, and their Internet is a bit pricy (if I'm caught with anything they deem too advanced, I end up paying $45 a month.
I've been considering T-Mobile, with their data plan of $20, and I can keep my existing smartphone. However, Sprint SERO is offering unlimited data, text and 500 minutes of calling for $30/mo. Catch is I have to buy a new phone (I know that the Treo 750 is an HTC-built device, but is the same true of the 700wx?), and I'd be locked into a 2 year contract with Sprint!.
I'm willing to look at other companies, including regional providers. I'd prefer prepaid or contract-less, but if the deal is good enough... catch is I'm in south Jersey, and not many regional providers around here.
What are people's opinions?
Hello,
I have a problem to solve, here is the situation:
next week i will go to the usa for about a month. i have an unlocked nexus one and need some data plan to connect and to use voip to call family/friends. do you know if t-mobile data plans (i want to use 3g and i think that n1 works only with t-mobile) will work with voip, or is it blocked completely?
budget: $50/month with no termination fee...
thx for all the help.
There are two versions for different radio bands, one for t-mo one for att. I don't think either provides prepaid data cards.
As evilkorn pointed out, you do need to figure out what radio bands your nexus uses.
Tmobile Radio-
If it's tmobile, then it will be fairly simple to do, but it will cost you $60 a month, with no contract. Tmobile offers two kinds of plans, one with contract, and one without. The one with no contract is called "Even more Plus". For $60 you get 500 minutes, unlimited text and 5GB of data. Here's the link: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/cell-phone-plans-detail.aspx?tp=tb1&rateplan=Even-More-Plus-500-Talk-Text-Web
AT&T Radio-
If it's AT&T, it will be tricky. You'll have to get an Ipad plan, which is $30 a month for 2GB and no contract. You then change the APN settings on your nexus to match an Ipad. Here's a link to do that: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=177297ea7cd4781c&hl=en
But to get an Ipad plan, is very tricky. You'll have to use the method suggested here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=928196
Since you aren't from the USA you'll have to go to an AT&T store to buy a SIM, instead of ordering it like they suggest.
Hope this helped and good luck!
thx for answers!
i have got tmobile freq nexus one (so it works here in europe)
shouldnt the data only plan be sufficient? tmobile's Even More Plus Smartphone Unlimited Web & E-mail or Even More Plus webConnect® Overage Free Plan? or i need to have plans with talk minutes which i dont need at all...
It appears you could use one of those (I'm on At&t and not to familiar tmobile plans), but I didn't even think about there being an activation fee. So even with the $39.99 data only plan, you would still have an additional $35 activation fee.
You could try calling tmobile and tell them your only going to be there for a month, and if your lucky they might wave the activation fee. After signing up over the phone (because there is pretty much zero chance they would do this in a store) you could then go pick up a sim in there store.
Let us know how it works out!
T-Mobile has a $40 data only plan as well.
I got my Bionic for $250.00 and we have a nationwide corporate pool that includes....wait for it...unlimited data. They are also running a promo for new customers where you can send in your old pos phone and get at least a $100.00 Verizon gift card. Accessories here I come.
The main point is if you have a decent corporate discount, you can get it for $250.00 then send in an old phone and get $100.00 gift card which you can use to pay your bill. It is like getting it for $150.00
I was told that you're only eligible for the gift card if you are coming from a device without a data plan...
Are you sure about the unlimited data? I thought unlimited data was gone even for corporate users? Unless you particular company has a separate secret deal with VZ....
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I was told that you're only eligible for the gift card if you are coming from a device without a data plan...
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Which would mean you lose your grandfathered in unlimited data plan....wait...going from 3G to 4G do they grandfather in your unlimited data?
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Which would mean you lose your grandfathered in unlimited data plan....wait...going from 3G to 4G do they grandfather in your unlimited data?
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I ordered my Bionic this morning and was able to keep my unlimited plan coming from a 3g smartphone (Incredible).
I was able to keep unlimited data coming from the inc as well
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Are you sure about the unlimited data? I thought unlimited data was gone even for corporate users? Unless you particular company has a separate secret deal with VZ....
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Yup, we have a super secret deal I guess. We have 117,000 employees.
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I was told that you're only eligible for the gift card if you are coming from a device without a data plan...
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It says for new customers. The way I read it, I should be able to send in whatever old phone I have and I will get at least 100.00. It doesn't have to be a Verizon phone.
I got my phone this AM for 149+ tax. It was 249 the a additional 100 off for going from a 3G to 4g smartphone.
The $100 special offer is for going from a feature phone to a 4G phone, and for that you have to mail in the feature phone and jump through some more hoops, not an instant discount. So power to you brother, but whatever you got wasn't the "Get Paid to Trade" deal.
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OK guys so I've been working in wireless back to the Airiel days. Then voice stream.
I've seen plans come and go. I've seen companies come and go.
I've seen limited data. Unlimited data, and limited data again.
This thread is to post your experience with plans on the nexus 4 to give people the information on what's out there.
Now as a wireless consultant which this is what I do.
I rate and create projects for customer feedback.
Go smart was my last job.
One word..... Sucks!!!
Now if you want to pay $35 for your iPhone on edge its a great deal.
Beyond that its a crappy deal.
I've personally used. Straight Talk... Ehhh OK.
Simple mobile ..... False advertising.
Net 10..... Data issues galore.
Att unlimited prepaid..... With imei hack... Still throttled to 500kbps...
Then we come to TMobile prepaid plan.
Out of everything prepaid I've used.
And this includes Solavei. Don't get me started on mlm wannabes.
The T-Mobile $70 plan directly through T-Mobile is the best plan hands down.
And for the solavei person who will say but ours is unlimited.... I did your consulting affiliate... Its only 4GB of data. And they are having massive billing issues, and not to mention losing people in there customer base.
I give them six months before imploding.
Did you know they are amassing a massive roaming bill.
Back on track.
I get true unlimited data. Everywhere in the u.s.
The new unlimited plan "includes roaming"
I have used 25GB of data this month see screen shots.
If you are a smart wireless consumer for your nexus.
Get this $70 plan and then here is how you save.
Find someone on eBay there are hundreds folks.
Selling $100 prepaid card credits for $69.99
Or even $50 cards for $40
Its all over eBay.
Right now im on the $70 plan and I pay about $45 a month average because of where I buy the refill cards.
So if you have a nexus 4.
This is the best plan on prepaid for power users.
I've achieved speeds over 30mbps and average 25mbps
That's better than Verizon lte and AT&T LTE postpaid plans.
This very well could be the best plan in wireless post paid or prepaid in wireless.
Tell me what you think.
And your experiences with other companies on the nexus 4.
There is a cheaper business plan.
$54.99 total cost I'm looking at but its post paid.
On the Dev side. I'm looking to try to improve the radio issue.
Using a optimus g hack.
Stay tuned
Screen shots attached.
Oh one last thing.
$7.00 a month insures your nexus 4 on prepaid.
No other mvno does that.
Sounds awfully like an advertisement. Try to be less biased from the start and condense your information.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Sounds awfully like an advertisement. Try to be less biased from the start and condense your information.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Sounds like it. And I looked at the T-mobile option and most aren't going for any measurable discount. As for comparing them to straight talk. Im on T-mobile directly, my girlfriend is on ST. Both of us on Nexus 4s. Our service and speeds are identical (and I can attest to LTE speeds on T-Mobiles network). Straight talk is nothing more than a virtual operator that either uses AT&T or T-Mobile's network.
There's just one problem with you post, T-Mobile's coverage sucks balls. Yeah its cool to get 20Mbps but if your not getting that you're usually on edge, which is at least half the time. I'll stick with straight talk att.
Source: I had T-Mobile before straight talk.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
There's already a T-Mobile discussion thread.
The intricacies of cell phone plans aren't really specific to the Nexus 4, anyway.
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I heard a rumor about sprint offering unlimited talk, text, data so i was excited and thinking finally sprint lowered their prices on their plans. So i decide to call sprint to get my service lowered but the sprint rep that i talked to told me that they did not offer their unlimited talk, text, data for $59.99 so i thought it was a mistake. It took me about an hour after calling different sprint stores and customer service numbers to realize that the rumor was not true. So a few days past by and i stumbled on this site and the site advertised unlimited talk, text, data for only $59.99 so after doing research on this company they are listed A+ with BBB and Sprint hired them to market Sprint plans for them. It was well masked by sprint. Long story short this company provide Sprint service for 59.99 unlimited talk, text, data and the best part about it is that you can keep your sprint phone and switch it over to that plan. My days of paying full price sprint service is over. I really was not going to share this info with anyone and keep it my little secret just in case a lot of people start switching over and sprint end the contract with this company and that would case me to go back to paying full price but i decided to have a heart and share it with the mass. So here you go.
I heard a rumor about sprint offering unlimited talk, text, data so i was excited and thinking finally sprint lowered their prices on their plans. So i decide to call sprint to get my service lowered but the sprint rep that i talked to told me that they did not offer their unlimited talk, text, data for $59.99 so i thought it was a mistake. It took me about an hour after calling different sprint stores and customer service numbers to realize that the rumor was not true. So a few days past by and i stumbled on this site and the site advertised unlimited talk, text, data for only $59.99 so after doing research on this company they are listed A+ with BBB and Sprint hired them to market Sprint plans for them. It was well masked by sprint. Long story short this company provide Sprint service for 59.99 unlimited talk, text, data and the best part about it is that you can keep your sprint phone and switch it over to that plan. My days of paying full price sprint service is over. I really was not going to share this info with anyone and keep it my little secret just in case a lot of people start switching over and sprint end the contract with this company and that would case me to go back to paying full price but i decided to have a heart and share it with the mass. So here you go.
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