Verizon Finally Reveals Share Everything Plans

[fiduke]

[citation][nom]dcompart[/nom]I sympathize with you and many people's reaction to this price increase, but to go about legislatively by implementing price controls on a private company who sells products that you are not forced to buy is unlawful and unfairly places a burden on the seller, not the consumer who should hold responsibility for the dollars they possess and exchange for goods and services. With that said, we all can complain and still continue to buy overpriced goods and services or we can actually learn to do without until our point or our goal (lower prices) is achieved.[/citation]

Legislation is the option when there is a monopoly. Not a true monopoly but its close. Look at AT&T's recent failed acquisition of T-Mobile. The telecom industry is on the brink of a monopoly. There is competition but when companies are limited by competition by a finite resource (bandwidth), government regulation is not only lawful but a necessity. What is happening now is price fixing between Verizon and AT&T (T). T will likely see how VZ's new pricing plays out. If it goes well they will follow suit. Price fixing is just as illegal as a monopoly.

 

[crabsncancer]

American Telecom needs heavy Regulation by the government on Price and Quality of Service.

 

[AndrewMD]

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but my math tells me this is cheaper than ATT right now with two smartphones using 6GB for $70 + $40 for the additional smartphone. Considering that my tablets can use the wifi tethering from either phone, I would not have to add my tablets to the mix. So in actuallity this is cheaper, at least for my scenario.

 

[acadia11]

[citation][nom]dcompart[/nom]I sympathize with you and many people's reaction to this price increase, but to go about legislatively by implementing price controls on a private company who sells products that you are not forced to buy is unlawful and unfairly places a burden on the seller, not the consumer who should hold responsibility for the dollars they possess and exchange for goods and services. With that said, we all can complain and still continue to buy overpriced goods and services or we can actually learn to do without until our point or our goal (lower prices) is achieved.[/citation]

I disagree something essential as communication is not just a product, youmcan argue all you want, but you want to know why china has much cheaper cost for employees, yes, the workers coots less than us workers, but it's only a 10 percent difference the remainder of the cost is heavy subsidies of power and communications, they keep essentials to doing business cheap by regulation. People complain about solyndra, you know why solyndra failed, although it had a better product, Chinese solar companies get a while heck of alot more subsidies and government funding there by allowing thm to sell their product cheaper. This attitude that you have that free markets by default lead to the best economic result is simply wrong, especially in a global economy, luxury cars should be expensive, communications, power, the essentials to driving commerce should be regulated and subsided to be cheap.

 

[jojesa]

[citation][nom]AndrewMD[/nom]I don't know about the rest of you guys, but my math tells me this is cheaper than ATT right now with two smartphones using 6GB for $70 + $40 for the additional smartphone. Considering that my tablets can use the wifi tethering from either phone, I would not have to add my tablets to the mix. So in actuallity this is cheaper, at least for my scenario.[/citation]
AT&T 6GB Plan 2 smartphones = $110
Verizon 6GB Plan 2 smartphones = $160
If your math is telling you otherwise...your math needs to go back to school.

 

[gmarsack]

This is sad. I pay about 240.00/m to Verizon for my cell phones (only one is a smart phone). Yet, I pay WAY less to Comcast for a Business Class Internet connection with 13 IP addresses (140.00/m). I also pay for a LAN line. Collectively, I am paying communications companies about 2 1/2 times more than my car payment + insurance. Does this make any sense? I NEED a car, yet I don't NEED Internet or a cell phone... yet for some odd reason I still pay those greedy telecoms. Why? They are such a rip off....

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]crabsncancer[/nom]American Telecom needs heavy Regulation by the government on Price and Quality of Service.[/citation]
i don't think so...if people will stop activating new accounts then the companies will regulate themselves...it's us the working class that empower them because we keep giving them the money

 

[neon871]

The new Share Everything Plans are optional and you can keep your current plans as stated below.

"Current customers are free to keep their existing plans, but there is no fee or contract extension to move to the new Share Everything Plans."

 

[neon871]

It would be a slap in Verizon's face if no one bought into or switched to those Share Everything Plans, wouldn't it?

 

[cknobman]

Well Verizon keeps raising prices because all of you stupid f_cks keep buying it, and they you whine about it but keep on paying.

Dont expect them to just lower prices out of the goodness of their hearts.

 

[catfishtx]

We do not need regulation. Government regulation allowed the telecoms to have a monopoly over our POTS lines for over a hundred years. How much improvement did the telecom industry see in that time span. IMHO, not very much. Caller ID, call waiting, maybe *69. The service never improved because of the federal regulations. It didn't have to. I finally cancelled my mother-in-law's landline phone last month. Verizon was still charging her over $30 a month for phone and caller ID plus $.25 a minute for LD. At least with the cell carriers, we are seeing a lot of progress and innovation, albeit with hefty price tags.

Yes cell companies suck totally. They overcharge and are generally offer terrible customer service. But you can fight back a little. What most don't realize is that we, as a people (In the US at least), allow the cell companies to utilize our airwaves. They belong to us, not them.

I got ticked off at ATT awhile back. So, I sent a formal complaint to the FCC against them and their requirement of data plans on smartphones. Within a week, I talked to someone on their executive council (That's what the guy said anyway) and let him have it. He said they have to take all complaints with the FCC very seriously and they are required to follow up on each one. If we all keep complaining, eventually they will take the customer serious again or maybe someone at the FCC will take notice. Now I have to have a cell phone for work, so it is an expense I tolerate because it does generate income for me, I just wish I liked the arrangement.

 

[fkr]

here is my frick verizon story. I am a grandfathered in unlimited data guy who does not like to talk on the phone. one month a friend is getting married and I had gone over my minutes by 10 half way through the month. I immediately switch the plan up to 900 minutes. I then get a bill that says i went over my allowance by $150. they did not back date my plan to the beginning of the month. they refused to change the billing even tho I went into a store and told them I need 900 minutes this month. They gave me half of my original plan and half of the new plan. So now I go in and do a warranty recall on my HTC rezound, they send one in the mail. Now I flash the phones and go to boost mobile's 4g service. I will settle the debt in six years for $100. screw them and I get 2 phones. All I asked for was an $80 reduction. The verizon lady said what happened was their fault but it was against policy to give me more than a $40 reduction, but she said the same thing at $20.