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Yeah keep it, you won't get another unlimited plan again. Small price to pay for a new or used phone.
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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
-Lao-Tzu, Tau Te Ching. 479 BCE
The 1911 may have been in wars for 100 years, but Masetro Bartolomeo Beretta was arming the world 400 years before John Browning was ever a wet dream.Comment
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I dumped it. Checked my data usage and I saved money and still don't exceed my plan. They don't throttle either. I constantly was throttled on the unlimited plan. They won!
I don't expect everything handed to me. Just set it down anywhere. UnknownComment
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AT&T bugs me all the time. Wife had to get a new phone the first thing the rep asked was if i wanted to change my plan also. I told him " do not touch my unlimited plan" I wouldn't get rid of it. I made him show me that he is only adding her plan not changing mine. You can " sell" it to someone who wants a unlimited plan but they pay you and you still own the number. I wouldn't get rid of it for the simple fact that they want you to get rid of it. You should be able to upgrade without losing the unlimited plan. You are just resigning your current plan for two years. At least that's how AT&T works.Comment
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With Verizon, any change to the plan means losing the Unlimited Data.
ESN change to a basic device= loss of the plan.
Upgrade=loss of the plan
Ultimately, most folks are better served just upgrading and losing the package. When I was in that business I only recall maybe 2 customers in 20 actually exceeding 2GB a month. People who swore they used 1.5GB really would be using about .5 or less. There's no point paying $600 for a cell phone when losing the "unlimited" wouldn't make a difference.The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
-Lao-Tzu, Tau Te Ching. 479 BCE
The 1911 may have been in wars for 100 years, but Masetro Bartolomeo Beretta was arming the world 400 years before John Browning was ever a wet dream.Comment
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Keep it, you're the lucky one who was able to get unlimited..
AT&T is using every tricks in the book to get back those unlimited data plan their CEO regret giving to their costumers.
"Offering unlimited data plans was a mistake according to AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson. The executive was speaking at the Milken Institute's Global Conference earlier this week when he made the comments, according to the New York Times. Stephenson said that the early unlimited data plans were "a regret," and the carrier should not have let light data users subsidize heavy users. On the other hand, offering unlimited data plans just might have enticed customers into buying smartphones."
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keep the unlimited plan for as long as possible. to them data is money, you go and pay X amount for unlimited data you win because its unlimited. but if you are on a tiered plan you pay X amount and you get alloted a certain amount, say you buy the 2 gig plan. but heres the kicker, you paid for the 2 gigs wether you use it all or not you lose it. at the beginning of the next cycle it starts all over. you go back to 2 gigs. but what if you only used 500mb what happens to the other 1.5 gigs you payed for. it does not roll over you lose all of it. so your giving verizon/att money for a product you will not recieve nor use. they are cashing in and people who got suckered into buying allotted data dont understand how that even works. as LTE speeds improve and data transfer rates increase you will see in increase in the quality of the data you use. i.e. watching HD youtube vids that stream without buffering. phones are getting more powerful all the time, take a look at the galaxy S4. its a beast if you understand the tech behind it. mobile online gaming is growing fast, but it requires LOTS OF DATA. and you will most definitely blow through 2 gigs extremely quickly.
its kinda like inflation. 10 years ago it was unheard of for someone to blow through 2 gigs of data on a 3g phone because the speeds of the data transfer rate did not exist. now 2 gigs can be burned in about an hour with LTE. dont ever give up your unlimited data.Comment
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I did not know that is how Verizon works. Like the AT&T rep told me its all about the data these days not the voice.
I heard that there is a consumer suit for the unlimited data plans being throttled down and the way they are being attempted to be phased out. If you just really gotta have that new phone SELL your old plan to someone. Don't just get rid of it. It's still your plan someone is just leasing it. One of the guys at my work did that and Judy pays the original owner for the monthly fee.Comment
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And therein lies the problem.
10 years ago, everyone could use the internet as much as they wanted without compromising the network. At 2G speed, you weren't doing much anyways.
Now, the carriers have painted themselves into a corner. Think for a moment about an airline with an overbooked flight. There are 200 seats available, and 205 are booked. While overbooking is good business from the company's standpoint, it sucks to be Passenger #201 at the gate. That person gets bumped to a different flight.
With cell service a similar problem exists with mobile data. Because carriers are in an arms race rolling out 4G, they're spending capitol improving the speed without increasing the backhaul. And backhaul is what makes it possible for people to stream data without overloading the network.Why? Because "our network has extra data capacity!" just doesn't look good on TV ads. If everyone with a smartphone had truly "unlimited" data, the network-no matter the carrier- would crash. Dropped calls, delayed texts, etc.
Until the backhaul problem is solved, don't plan on data caps going anywhere.As it stands , according to the statistics current useage WITH the caps will exceed capacity in the next 2 years. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point every carrier just said F-it and either force converted or cancelled legacy unlimited customers.The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
-Lao-Tzu, Tau Te Ching. 479 BCE
The 1911 may have been in wars for 100 years, but Masetro Bartolomeo Beretta was arming the world 400 years before John Browning was ever a wet dream.Comment
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I would eat through the 2bg like a snack. Last billing cycle I wound up using 17gb of data on my plan. You may not be using it now, but you may in the future. I'd hold onto that unlimited plan.Comment
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Duuuuude! I had a droid 3 that was giving me problems, I called in to get a replacment and they are out of droid 3s so they sent me a brannnd new Droid DNA for free!
So now I have a brand new 4g ltd phone with unlimited. I have been on this phone for 5 days and have burnt through 10 gigs already just by watching 5hrs or so of YouTube videos on my lunch breaks.... Give it a tryNone of my posts are serious or real, nothing I post is legal advice.
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