Anyone else think about VZW stopping the "grandfathered in" data

[delco714]

I use bw 200-300 mb/mo and I have moderate use. But am on wifi a lot more.

 

[tropper]

Re: Anyone else think about VZW stopping the "grandfathered in" d

My wife is bout ready for an upgrade, in a couple of weeks. If they force her to get a new contract to get a 4G phone an don't carry over her Unlimited plan, Ill make it rain a stack of " FU close my accounts NOW" one dollars bills, all over the counter an walk next door to sprint an get TWO new phones on a cheaper plan.

 

[milan03]

If he's correct about 50GB, in a month. Ladies & gentlemen, we now know who the first recipient of throttling will be

Lol 50GB is nothing comparing to what my co workers pull in. Most of them average between 90-120GB. We do a lot of network testing, LTE is unlimited matter of fact Verizon wants their customers to migrate to lte and offload evdo.
I understand it can sound unreal to 3G users, but once the pipe is opened up its not hard at all to use your data the way you'd do it at home.

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[HES]

Re: Anyone else think about VZW stopping the "grandfathered in" d

I don't see them.changing current plans....I have an altell plan still....

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Me too. You know they hate us. :-$

 

[humpagardengnome]

Re: Anyone else think about VZW stopping the "grandfathered in" d

Lol 50GB is nothing comparing to what my co workers pull in. Most of them average between 90-120GB. We do a lot of network testing, LTE is unlimited matter of fact Verizon wants their customers to migrate to lte and offload evdo.
I understand it can sound unreal to 3G users, but once the pipe is opened up its not hard at all to use your data the way you'd do it at home.

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I know that's not a large figure to the top 10%. I made the joke because carriers are already starting talking about throttling down some usesr data speeds, for a certain percentage of users on unlimited plans, cuz they overconsume the free data, when compared to the people who now pay for them on their tiered plans. The nonsense just keeps piling up, left & right, for the everyday consumer.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

Re: Anyone else think about VZW stopping the "grandfathered in" d

I don't think VZW will ever DROP unlimited data, for people who are presently qualified for it. I think they will wait until you disqualify yourself under the current criteria. Losing unlimited data will ALWAYS be your fault.

-Frank

I agree with this, however something really weird happened a few months ago. My mother thought she lost her Rogue back in January and went to a backup phone that didn't have any data options so she lost her Talk, Text, and Data $20 discount when she found her phone and reactivated it with unlimited data. Then my wife got the Revolution so we sent my mother my wife's Droid and my mother activated it on her line with unlimited data. Then the next billing cycle Verizon gave back the $20 Talk, Text, and Data discount to my mother's line even though the promotion ended way back in January and it was my mother's fault that she lost the promotion (that's what they told me when I tried to get the promotion back in January).

 

[negativeoutcome]

Re: Anyone else think about VZW stopping the "grandfathered in" d

Didn't read all the posts here but for VZW to do this would be suicide for their company at this point. Sure they have the best network but their are still other unlimited services out there and for a lot cheaper.

VZW main selling point at this time for current customers is that they can keep their unlimited plans. But imagine if they cancelled it. All things would change.

Sprint may have the crappiest network at the moment but imagine if VZW cancelled the grandfather plan. Hell imagine if AT&T did it as well. Suddenly you would have a huge influx of new customers looking to Sprint. With all this funding it would allow Sprint to once again reign supreme over the cell phone wars.

Back in the day Sprint had the largest hold on the cell phone market due to their coverage area. The one mistake they made (imo) is that they didn't jump on the smartphone data bandwagon fast enough. Had sprint used it's full resources back then into inet technology for smartphones i think the cell world would be a very different place now.

If VZW is smart they know this. As long as Sprint continues to offer unlimited plans it keeps ATT/VZW in check with their long time customers. Cutting off the grandfathered membership means potentially losing a very large portion of their customer base and thus giving Sprint the cash needed to be on top once again.