Verizon Technically Keeping Unlimited Data After All

[g00fysmiley]

[citation][nom]CaptObivious[/nom]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.[/citation]

not exactly, your first few posts show in the lighter grey, note all the user names in black are people with a history of posting on the site.

 

[jimmyjohnz]

So Verizon complains about subsidizing phones for their consumers whenever they make ~$100-$200 in hidden charges after your two year contract is up? For goodness sake everybody, realize that your phone is worth more than $200 and stop upgrading every 2 years. It's such a broken system.

 

[Guest]

Screw Verizon, I've had them for going on 15 years now and I can officially say I will be dropping them come the end of my contract. I will also be going back to a "dumb" phone. Smart phones are cool and all but my family is paying more then $2000/year to be connected to Facebook 24/7... Just not worth it.

 

[Guest]

I was going to QQ until I checked my data usage. I'll end up no different than I was before. I'd rather pay for what I use than pay for the tards that can't walk (or drive) 5 feet without shoving that phone in their face.

 

[Guest]

When Verizon switched to tiered data plans they said that 96% of users stayed underneath 2GB. It looks like they're just trying to get that 'problematic' 4%.

 

[Guest]

What I don't get is why we all agree to pay the subsidized monthly service prices, even those of us that pay full price for our phones? If you provide the phone/pay full price of phone shouldn't the carriers be obligated to discount the rate accordingly to reflect the unsubsidized phone?

 

[Guest]

lol verizon doesnt subsidize phone costs, they charge you an extra $10-20 per month on your bill. If you come to verizon, or any phone carrier for that matter and tell them you already have your own phone that you want to use, you will pay a lower monthly rate for the same plan. You are in fact paying the full $650 for your phone after your contract is up each and every single time.

 

[xerroz]

Just waiting for a good enough reason that would guarantee Verizon would break the contract I signed so I can move on to a cheaper service

 

[athurman]

5 GB of data is roughly the size of a single layer DVD, 10 GB is a little more than a dual layer DVD, 1 TB is the size of my SMALLEST hard drive. My home network contains about 12 TB of space, but about 5 TB in use. To do a backup of my home network over Verizon 4G is really not possible. To backup just one of my machines over Verizon 4G would put me over my 10 GB cap, throttle my speeds to less than usable, and be prohibitively expensive for the "overuse".

jkflipflop98 has it right when he said: "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."

 

[Kibarob]

Hell I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.

As I undertood it before I read this, you would have had to take the Tiered data plan If you changed your plan/added a u family member/Signed a new contract for discount on a phone.

Where in my contract does it state "If you change the phone you own with your own money, even if you unlocked it from another company, and replaced it with our listing on the phone you have, that it constitutes changing a "plan/service/adding people"?"

When I heard about not being able to have unlimited, first thig I thought of was "Well if I buy a phone outright and replace my exisiting one with it then I will be fine." This announcement is trying to make it sound like they are giving you an option, but truth is you always have that option.

Verizon is going full retard