Verizon Technically Keeping Unlimited Data After All

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The first company to offer reliable, unlimited network access at a reasonable price is going to win it all. These companies keep trying to scheme "easy" ways of charging the customer more for less, when they should be concerned about delivering the best service possible.
 
I love the whole, "Data Hogs", thing. You offered unlimited, and they are using what they payed for. I remember two years ago, you HAD to get unlimited, you had no choice in the matter if you have bought a smart phone.

Cellphone companies suckered people in and now are realizing that everyone has a cellphone, so now they can charge what they want and offer less for more.

If they are going to take us off of unlimited, there should be an act that makes Data pricing reasonable, like 10$ per 10gb.
 
None of all this BS matters anymore. I'm leaving Verizon for good! Good riddance to the most greedy bastages on the planet! DROP VERIZON! Pass it on.
 
Sorry Verizon I been a customer for 15 years and now this and my whole big friends and family is on verizon. Yes timeto change my provider had enough with this nonsense.
 
Nationalize the telcos. Europe does it so much better. No joke. Look into it.
 
I have loyaltity to Verizon like Big Companies have for their employees, With a Family of 5 on Verizon for over 10 years it will be time to say GOOD BYE.....
 
Sure glad I didn't fall for the resigning BS. Free to Leave with "no last stab in the back" charges on the way out !!! I have had it with their disloyal attitude to their loyal customers!
Hopefully enough leave and they'll go away and let some other company, who believes in rewarding for loyalty and not screwing the ones who make them who they are.
 
Sprint's unlimited plan has treated me very well. With the free calling to ANY mobile phone, it is more comparable to an unlimited minutes plan than any other carrier's metered minutes plan. Never having to worry about running out of texts, minutes, or running into a data cap/throttle is awesome. I don't get why people pay almost twice as much for the same plan from other carriers, and I certainly won't understand it when they continue to pay twice as much for so much less. The author of this article states "...which supposedly includes unlimited data, unlimited texting, and unlimited calling to and from any mobile in America." I don't understand the need to put supposedly in there, we aren't talking about some scumbag that just murdered someone. The facts are the facts. Don't be a sucker, keep your phone number and drop your carrier; you'll be glad you did.
 
[citation][nom]bartlett4543[/nom]Sprint's unlimited plan has treated me very well. With the free calling to ANY mobile phone, it is more comparable to an unlimited minutes plan than any other carrier's metered minutes plan. Never having to worry about running out of texts, minutes, or running into a data cap/throttle is awesome. I don't get why people pay almost twice as much for the same plan from other carriers, and I certainly won't understand it when they continue to pay twice as much for so much less. The author of this article states "...which supposedly includes unlimited data, unlimited texting, and unlimited calling to and from any mobile in America." I don't understand the need to put supposedly in there, we aren't talking about some scumbag that just murdered someone. The facts are the facts. Don't be a sucker, keep your phone number and drop your carrier; you'll be glad you did.[/citation]

I'm seconding this... I don't see why the author wrote in the word supposedly unlimited other than the fac tthat veizon obviously sponsor's tom's hardware with ads. I persoanlly have been with sprint for abotu 4 years now, I switched when altell got bought out by verizon specifically to escapt big red and they have validated that decition many times over. I stream alot of netflix and pandora, I typically eat 10-15 gigs per month, and with my new galaxy nexus I'm at 7 gigs used in 1 week and a day but still doesn't seem like i'm being throttled... I know my parents and sister are still on verizon from the switch when they got bought out from altell due to grandfathered plans but now they are planning to move over to sprint as soon as their contracts expire... here's hoping verizon gets a clue or goes out of buisness... and toms i get it verizons sponsors you but unbiased coverage please their unlimited data is not a false claim don't soil your journalistic integrity please
 
My basic Unlimited 2GB then governed plan w/ T-Mobile $49 is more than enough. I barely use 100 to 300MB as no matter where I'm at, I generally have Wifi access. And that broadens all the time.

Sprint doesn't cover all the places I travel throughout the states (and I travel a lot). Work, Hotels, Home, Friend's houses, Food joints, airports etc...
 
[citation][nom]chabobt[/nom]Sure glad I didn't fall for the resigning BS. Free to Leave with "no last stab in the back" charges on the way out !!! I have had it with their disloyal attitude to their loyal customers!Hopefully enough leave and they'll go away and let some other company, who believes in rewarding for loyalty and not screwing the ones who make them who they are.[/citation]

Unfortunately, the alternatives suck just as bad if not worse. I feel like I have to majorly "watch my back" when dealing with these wireless carriers. Almost worse than diving in a shark-infested bayou while soaked in blood. AT&T, Verizon seems to be the worst as far as customer gouging. T-Mobile and Sprint seem a bit more reasonable, but their coverage genrerally sucks. I have yet to deal with the pay-as-you-go carriers like Straight Talk or Boost.

Currently I am paying $145 a month to AT&T for 450 minutes, unlimited text, 1 phone with an unlimited data plan plus two extra phones (for my wife and daughter). My daughter wanted my old iPhone for texting, so, since it was paid for, I popped the simcard in and let her use it. A couple of months later, AT&T ganked me with an additional $30 data charge on the phone even though I had data disabled. I only use wifi in my house for that phone. I fought with them on the phone forever to get this removed and had to take the sim out of the iPhone that I own. Since when can a company automatically charge you for something you dont want. Our government is sitting on its ass these days when it comes to this kind of crap.
 
I'm a Verizon wireless customer and have been for a long time, 10+ yrs, and I was always happy with their 3G signal, which was and is very strong, got it almost anywhere. Now I have a 4G phone with unlimited data but I noticed their 4G signal is not as strong as their 3G signal, I keep losing 4G alot compared to my older phone with the 3G signal. While the 4G is faster I just dont see how Verizon expects to keep an advantage, to me their advantage was a strong signal but now I dont have that strong of a 4G signal so why stay with them?? Its just Greed IMO and they will be losing a long term customer if they go thru with this.
 
And to those that make the argument that AT&T has the right to charge a dataplan for a "smartphone" because it is their network, that is utter bullshit. When it is "my" phone, it should be irrelevant as to what kind of phone it is as long as I am not consuming their "data" service. That is like a cable company saying that because you have a hi-def TV that they should be able to charge you more. As far as I am concerned, they should have no knowledge of what device is on your end that you own. They should be providing a service based on what you pay for, regardless of what device you are consuming it with.
 
[citation][nom]Dyseman[/nom]My basic Unlimited 2GB then governed plan w/ T-Mobile $49 is more than enough. I barely use 100 to 300MB as no matter where I'm at, I generally have Wifi access. And that broadens all the time.Sprint doesn't cover all the places I travel throughout the states (and I travel a lot). Work, Hotels, Home, Friend's houses, Food joints, airports etc...[/citation]

i'm no doubting that sprint has bad coverage some places, but where are you traveling? I live in florida and drive to chicago 3-4 times a year and up to the UP of michigan and from florida to chicago i can stream pandora the whole way, it get spotty for data once I hit upper WI but my wife'ds family all uses big red and my wife's fiance uses at&t and i'm the onyl one whot has cell signal the whole drive and they have a cabim on lake superior, me and my wife have the only phones that work while up there and my old pre even got 3g albeit a slow connection like .2 mbs going up there in august probably so i'll see how things are looking with my galaxy nexus
 
So let me get this straight. The cost of a phone off contract is roughly 500-700$(we'll say 600$ as an average). Unlimited data is 30$ a month. Over the course of a 2 year "contract", you would pay 30$ a month * 24 months + 600$ for a new phone, or 1320$.

OR I could switch to a 5gb data plan, pay 50$ a month, and get a subsidized phone(usually ~200$), so 50$ a month * 24 months + 200$ for a new phone, or 1400$.

Not a tough decision, and I get more freedom over when I upgrade my phone.
 
Do you notice every comment that bashes Verizon on this page get greyed out. Whoops did I call out the red elephant in the room????

Time for our greedy government to step in and make things worse.
 
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