additional charge for 4g?

[fire n ice]

I have also been told by a rep that there is no extra charge for 4g with your current data plan

i spoke to a verizon employee as my city was added to 4g list an asked about the t-bolt an extra cost for 4g, she said as of right now there is no plan to charge extra for having a 4g capable phone. if you have unlimited data plan there is nothing to worry about. i also asked about tiered data she basically just said we only offer unlimited or 150mb plan. so as long as unlimited data is available when t-bolt drops im good

Sent from my SCH-I500

 

[Brett]

It would be sick if this is true. Plus a real edge for them

Sent from my Droid Incredible because I'm too lazy to walk over to my computer.

 

[tropper]

Yeah definitely !

 

[menschmaschine5]

Blackmanx here in the forums, leads me to believe it will be like sprints. So yes you have to the 4G whether you can recieve a Lte connection or not. Now I dont know how he knows his Info but you kinda get the feeling he has an insider point of view in some way IDK.

Sprint denied that was an extra charge for 4G, and in fact, it was just announced that they will tack on that charge for all smartphones, 4G or not.

 

[fire n ice]

Sprint denied that was an extra charge for 4G, and in fact, it was just announced that they will tack on that charge for all smartphones, 4G or not.

Whew glad I decided to stick it out with VZW then, especially since they started offering an unlimited data/text family plan for the same price.

 

[zero neck]

especially since they started offering an unlimited data/text family plan for the same price.

verizon has an unlimited data+text family plan???

 

[jakeroberts42]

Asking a rep about pricing not yet released is useless. They would know as much as any random person on the street. Verizon doesn't tell their reps anything earlier than they tell the public for the most part.

Not that the rep that said "as of now" was lying to you. To her, that is what the truth is.

 

[Raptor007]

Based on how the US carriers work, once one charges more, the rest seem to follow suit pretty quickly, just like they did with the SMS charges which is a rip off to begin with.

What I would like to see if a $10 bump for 4G but if you are in a 3G only area you get unlimited like you do now. This would be acceptable given the current footprint and that 4G will never likely cover everyone. So you get a balanced trade off.

Sprint is just smoking something to call their 3G "premium" and charge $10 more per month, premium what, crap.

 

[tropper]

Sprint denied that was an extra charge for 4G, and in fact, it was just announced that they will tack on that charge for all smartphones, 4G or not.

Smoke and mirrors and canadian bacon is still just a ham with a different name

 

[menschmaschine5]

Smoke and mirrors and canadian bacon is still just a ham with a different name

Not quite sure what you're getting at here, but the point is that it's no longer a "4G tax".

 

[racinbill]

Verizon 4G Going Live Dec 5th; 5 GB Per Month For $50, 10 GB For $80 a bunch of other websites and Androidcentral had a post a while back

That is for their broadband modems only. Most people agree their phone data plans will be less(much less hopefully).

 

[bkorver]

I think he means if you take a thin slice of ham and call it "canadian bacon", it's still ham. Another one of my favorite sayings that would fit here is they are peeing on you and telling you it's raining...

I swear I saw a video somewhere that showed a 3g cell site, then an LTE cell site. The LTE site was tiny in comparison and the guy was bragging about how much cheaper they were to deploy than 3g sites and how much money they were going to save on site maintenance. So my question is, if that's true, how on god's green earth can LTE cost MORE?

 

[racinbill]

I think he means if you take a thin slice of ham and call it "canadian bacon", it's still ham. Another one of my favorite sayings that would fit here is they are peeing on you and telling you it's raining...

I swear I saw a video somewhere that showed a 3g cell site, then an LTE cell site. The LTE site was tiny in comparison and the guy was bragging about how much cheaper they were to deploy than 3g sites and how much money they were going to save on site maintenance. So my question is, if that's true, how on god's green earth can LTE cost MORE?

I did see a shot of a Cell relay station and they showed racks of 3G equipment and then one small LTE "router". They indicated that the one LTE device handled as much as all the many cabinets of 3G devices. While size does matter, it does not mean that the technology is cheaper overall.

 

[karnovaran]

Pure speculation, but I would guess Verizon's existing fiber network for FiOS greatly defrayed the costs of assembling their LTE sites. I'd be surprised if they pull a Sprint and tack on 4G fees.

 

[Raptor007]

I don't know what the figures are but Verizon spent billions to buy the spectrum, and are spending another few billion to get it running so they need to recoup that money to then make a profit on it. Eventually LTE will be everywhere and 3G will be for the feature phone crowd and voice calls.

 

[bkorver]

Another question I have is this... Every time I turn around on Twitter, Verizon is bragging about all these "New" 3g towers going up everywhere. Does this have anything to do with the Iphone, and is it delaying my LTE towers here in Salt Lake that are supposed to be turned on "Sometime this year"?

I used to laugh at my friends on AT&T and say that they as android fans were being held hostage by Jobs, now I think I am in the same boat...

 

[edoublediz]

they are absolutely related to the release of the iphone. that being said, its not the worst thing for all vzw customers either.

 

[menschmaschine5]

That is for their broadband modems only. Most people agree their phone data plans will be less(much less hopefully).

Yes, and as pointed out a few times in this thread, these plans have the exact same pricing as the plans for their 3G modems. This may very well point to Verizon keeping handset data plans, even for 4G phones, the same.

 

[htowngator]

I would bet bottom dollar you'll see tiered plans and/or a surcharge.

 

[Granter]

There will only be 2 Lte plans. It's 10 bucks a gig but they only will offer two plans a five gig and an eight gig $50 and $80 and if you go over it will auto charge you ten for an extra gig

Those are for modems only, as far as I have heard.