If true we can all stick to our original plans...

I did the same thing if the bionic or w.e else comes out blows me away I will sell the charge and grab it otherwise I am fine sticking with my charge. Another thing on twitter one of the know whos said that if you have a 3g phone and go to upgrade to 4g after july 7th you wont be grandfathered. Who knows though with verizon I will just get in now and worry about that when my next contract is up.
Since i just bought the Charge i feel the exact same way.

Bionic is very unlikely for me, unless my Charge breaks or get stolen since im not getting insurance.

Ill wait for the enxt great leap.

Probably a ICS dedicated phone, without the capacitive buttons.
 
I hope it is true that we existing customers can keep our current unlimited data. I have a BB Storm which I hardly use since I'm normally on my wife's droid incredible and I use 6GB on her phone per month. I'm also waiting on the Bionic since I'm able to upgrade.
 
Here's more indication that existing customers already on unlimited data may be safe (for now anyway)...the Verizon spokeswoman specifies for "new customers".

Verizon Confirms Tiered Data Plans Coming Next Month - Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD
Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney told AllThingsD that the company is making changes to its data plans, including those for new smartphone customers.

I am not sure this is confirmation, it says Including.. not that it only affects new customers.
 
I hope it is true that we existing customers can keep our current unlimited data. I have a BB Storm which I hardly use since I'm normally on my wife's droid incredible and I use 6GB on her phone per month. I'm also waiting on the Bionic since I'm able to upgrade.

There is someone who works for Verizon talking about the training for the new plans. While this person isn't sure, there is some worry that because BlackBerry is a different type of data plan in the system, those of us still rockin those phones might be screwed still when it comes time to renew after the switch. Have to wait and see what info comes out about this latest development.
 
I have an AllTel Smartchoice plan w/ unlimited data on Verizon and it has been totally AND completely confirmed that i can upgrade and keep that plan after they go to tired data.


As long as I do not change any part of the plan. If a rep. tells a customer any different they are being misled. See, a rep. has an agenda, they get paid more on signing customers to new/upgraded/updated/different contracts NOT phones. In other words,

In a way it's kind of funny reading about everybody freaking out about not being grandfathered in.

Simmer down

Sprint still has unlimited data. But don't let them reps. dupe you in to not keeping your plan when all your doing is getting a phone.
 
I have an AllTel Smartchoice plan w/ unlimited data on Verizon and it has been totally AND completely confirmed that i can upgrade and keep that plan after they go to tired data.


As long as I do not change any part of the plan. If a rep. tells a customer any different they are being misled. See, a rep. has an agenda, they get paid more on signing customers to new/upgraded/updated/different contracts NOT phones. In other words,

In a way it's kind of funny reading about everybody freaking out about not being grandfathered in.

Simmer down

Sprint still has unlimited data. But don't let them reps. dupe you in to not keeping your plan when all your doing is getting a phone.

Well for someone with a feature phone like me, I am freaking out. Since I have no data plan my only choice is the Charge to lock into unlimited.
 
More evidence that current smartphone users are all set for the forseeable future:

Who can you quote your source on that if you meant it for any contract signs (ie. renewals with phone subsidy purchases)?

Sensatti over a mydroidworld posted this from the verizon system today:

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original thread: Article: Tiered Data to go live! - Page 3

There seems to be 2 camps right now and I was pretty close to going and getting myself a Charge this week but now im not so sure. Even the Verizon camp seems confused by this new policy that is coming.
 
Good good. I was planning on taking the risk and not buying a charge/tbolt, and this makes me full good about that decision. Now if we could just got some actual news about the Bionic or SGS2 that would be awesome.
 
been reading forums for last year now just never posted, anywayz got a question? Right now my husband n i have a family plan on verizon, he has an env3 (his eligible upgrade is july 23), I have a chocolate (you know the slide one yeah like 4 yrs ago) got an ogdroid but took it back waiting for the next best thing) yeah, still have $100 new every two even, duh, shoulda kept my og droid, (long story) well I have unlimited data on both phones anywayz because of a promo price where we get 1400 min, text, unlimited data, for like $140 a month, I can upgrade whenever, been waiting, waiting, etc,..... for bionic, well since they are unlimited data but not necesarily smartphones, will we be grandfathered in because we have unlimited data on those phones? what do you guys think?
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General consensus from the VZW leak wording is that you're only grandfathered in if you ALREADY have a Smartphone and are upgrading to another smartphone. Your "Unlimited Data" plan is probably not the same plan that smartphones have - it's the feature phone data plan.

After the 7th of July, if you upgrade from any other phone (BB is still the gray area it seems) to a Smartphone, they'll hit you with Tiered for sure.
 
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Ok so now to run off and get the droid charge at Costco while on sale lose my stupid ne2 credit for $100, and then exchange it for the bionic when it comes out hopefully within the 90 days, or give the charge to my husband, and use his upgrade to get the bionic, even though he'll get the stupid tiered pricing and I'll get the unlimited which is fine I guess. Stupid Verizon always flipping off peoples plans on phones. I like the idea of the SGII but think LTE might be the way to go for now, if no news of Bionic before July 3rd, I'll settle for the Charge, darn it, darn it to heck!
 
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Ok so now to run off and get the droid charge at Costco while on sale lose my stupid ne2 credit for $100, and then exchange it for the bionic when it comes out hopefully within the 90 days, or give the charge to my husband, and use his upgrade to get the bionic, even though he'll get the stupid tiered pricing and I'll get the unlimited which is fine I guess. Stupid Verizon always flipping off peoples plans on phones. I like the idea of the SGII but think LTE might be the way to go for now, if no news of Bionic before July 3rd, I'll settle for the Charge, darn it, darn it to heck!

Not sure from reading this if its a problem with your husband getting tiered (might not be a power user). If it is really a problem you could always use your upgrade now to get the charge and add a line and get him the charge (thus locking in unlimited). You could then just dump his current line when its off contract since it was just a feature phone. Thus you could have unlimited on both lines.

Its a little costly up front but then you both could trade out for Bionics if you wanted to (should they come out and Costco allows for it). Note: I have never shopped at Costco but that seems to be the logic you and a few others are going for.

If your husband is not a power user, then what you are proposing would probably make sense.

Initial indications though are that unlimited data on the lines are key prior to 7.7 to ensure the upgrade/renewal path for those lines.
 
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Not sure from reading this if its a problem with your husband getting tiered (might not be a power user). If it is really a problem you could always use your upgrade now to get the charge and add a line and get him the charge (thus locking in unlimited). You could then just dump his current line when its off contract since it was just a feature phone. Thus you could have unlimited on both lines.

Its a little costly up front but then you both could trade out for Bionics if you wanted to (should they come out and Costco allows for it). Note: I have never shopped at Costco but that seems to be the logic you and a few others are going for.

If your husband is not a power user, then what you are proposing would probably make sense.

Initial indications though are that unlimited data on the lines are key prior to 7.7 to ensure the upgrade/renewal path for those lines.

Well not sure if he will be a power user or not. As he works most of the day but I know he'll need to check emails, n such , maybe play games at lunch, so on yadi da, but I wanted to see if we can keep our $20 off each of our unlimited data plan (it was originally a promo for smartphones which I intended to get for us), because when I signed up for this in feb. verizon rep said it would not affect my upgrades, and it lengthened our contract by 1 yr., which I wasn't on contract at that time and my husband only had six months left on his. Guess I'll just have to call customer service and see what I can finagle, or at least find out.
 
Just an idea I wanted to throw out there and see what you guys think. My friend wants to switch to Verizon and hopefully to a LTE phone but would like to wait for a Bionic or maybe even Targa. She however would like to lock in unlimited. What if she bought a used OGDroid (or whatever was cheap) and locked into unlimited 3g before 7/7? I could see two potential options (I'm curious how valid these might be)

1) She signs a 2 year contract before 7/7, but doesn't buy a new phone. Is that possible? Does that store away a new phone credit she could apply to a Bionic in a (couple) month(s)?

2) Could she not sign a contract now? Just have a non-contract OGDroid with unlimited? And sign a contract later when she upgrades to a bionic and possibly receive a discount on that? (I realize it's still up in the air if you'd be able to stay unlimited and sign a new contract. I just don't understand current contract/phone credit mechanics well enough)
 
Well the fact is we still don't know anything for sure yet. It's starting to look like you may be able to keep the unlimited package if you upgrade after 7/7, IF you have a smartphone on your plan already. We certainly don't know that, however, and there's no telling what will be included and what won't be (Blackberry's, older Palms, WiMo, etc). We also don't know whether you will be able to upgrade from a 3g smartphone to a 4g phone and keep unlimited, there's no difference now and we don't know if things will remain that way or not.

All we know for sure is that if you do not have a smartphone before 7/7, unlimited data will NOT be an option when you upgrade. Feature phones with the Vpak or whatever are NOT considered smartphones, and unlimited feature phone plan are NOT compatible with smartphones. I had a $15 a month unlimited VCast Vpak, and you can't run any smartphone on that package even if you buy it outright.

So if you want unlimited data and don't yet have a smartphone, which was the case for me before the Charge, you had better pick up something now. And it makes the most sense to get a 4g phone now, as again we don't know if you'll be able to upgrade from 3g unlimited to 4g unlimited after D-Day (assuming this is even true that they'll let you upgrade with 2 year pricing and keep your unlimited).

As far as activating a smartphone on your account and switching to a smartphone data plan without signing a contract, there's no telling. There's technically nothing stopping them from forcing you to switch to tiered data after the date even if you keep that OG Droid, since you never signed a contract. I'm sure they wouldn't do that, but I definitely wouldn't count on them allowing you the opportunity to upgrade without losing unlimited if you had never signed a contract on a smartphone with them in the first place. Then again, they say the data packages aren't actually part of the contract, though you are required to keep one for 2 years if they sell you a smartphone with 2 year pricing. So its your call on that one, no reason to waste an upgrade if you still love your Droid and aren't too excited by the available LTE phones. But if you want to make sure you're locked in to unlimited LTE, there's really only one choice.
 
I am in the process of upgrading to the Charge (wife has one and it screams get one too!) I have unlimited data and unlimited tethering on a BB. I am told by Verizon when I upgrade that I can keep the unlimited data but the tethering pkg is only for 2GB if I switch to 4G phone. They say I can keep unlimited tethering if I stay 3G. Has anyone encountered this issue?
 
I am in the process of upgrading to the Charge (wife has one and it screams get one too!) I have unlimited data and unlimited tethering on a BB. I am told by Verizon when I upgrade that I can keep the unlimited data but the tethering pkg is only for 2GB if I switch to 4G phone. They say I can keep unlimited tethering if I stay 3G. Has anyone encountered this issue?

no thats a first for me. Only tethering I have done is using the "Tether" app off of crackberry for my storm 2. Outside of that I never thought to ask about tethering post 7/7.....
 
now is that $30 ontop of the $30 we are already paying for unlimited? if so they can keep it LOL. I can find another way.
 

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