does any one know when or why verizon did this do they not think its going to effect there sells and costemers i guesss we will all have to go to sprint if your not all ready grand fathered in on the unlimmited allready
yea but what about the new people hell what if i wonted to add another line with data then what its just sad that there getting that gready!!keep in mind your contract ending does not effect you being grandfathered into unlimited data. As long as you renew your contract you will still receive your unlimited data.
does any one know when or why verizon did this do they not think its going to effect there sells and costemers i guesss we will all have to go to sprint if your not all ready grand fathered in on the unlimmited allready
Just think, in a few short years when 4G is everywhere and we can burn through a gigabyte in a matter of minutes, those of us with the current 2 Gigabyte limit will be considering ourselves lucky to be grandfathered in to such a generous plan. "Two whole gigabytes? Only $10 a gigabyte overage? Dude! Lucky!"
The more speed they give us, the more we want to do with it. The more we do with it, the more we use. Then they find out the sales tool they used to sell us the phone is costing them money, and decide we can't do the things we bought the phone to do. :'(
If your around wifi.. when I bought my tbolt I wanted the freedom to use data as I see fit when and where I wanted.
does any one know when or why verizon did this do they not think its going to effect there sells and costemers i guesss we will all have to go to sprint if your not all ready grand fathered in on the unlimmited allready
you know these phones cost a preatty pinney now a days and for them to wont to just charge you for every little thing is just gready i think and sorry as hell looks like its time to go to metro pc for unlimited everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The point is that the phone will be capable of doing it. If I was in a 4G coverage area and wanted to stream a Netflix movie while on the train on the way to work, well, the phone is capable of that. If I was in a 4G area (which I'm not), my phone would now be capable of downloading data faster than my Wifi connection at home can.
The point is that the new speeds are pointless when monthly caps are reduced each time the speed increases. Our phones are getting faster, and our data caps are getting smaller.
I've had a smartphone for about 4 years now.
I started with a 2G AT&T (EDGE) phone (BB 8320) with unlimited data.
It finally died after about three years, so my company replaced it with an AT&T 3G (BB 9300) phone, which had a 5GB monthly data cap.
The company just decommissioned all of the BBs and swiched us over to iPhones and Androids. Now I'm on a 4G Verizon phone (Thunderbolt) with a 2 gigabyte data cap.
I get that "unlimited" is impossible for everyone - there will be enough abusers of the system that it'll cost too much. But what happens when LTE 2.0 hits the network a few years from now? Will our caps go from 2GB to 1GB?
In four years, I've gone from "I can never exceed my cap" to "I'd be hard-pressed to use my cap because I'd notice the usage creeping up over the course of a week" to "if I forget to turn on WiFi and I'm in a 4G coverage area, I could easily exceed my cap by mistake before my usage charts get updated to warn me about it."
I am sure some of you remember buying Blackberries back in the day... You were spending $400-500 on the UPGRADE price. Nowadays you can get a smartphone for free or less than $100.
Look, unlimited data has been gone since the beginning of July, which was two months ago. Yes, it sucks. Your only option is not 2 GB. You can get different tiers. The world moves on.
I was thinking that exact thing SHYGAR. When I am home...I switched to my WiFi router. When I am at starbucks or the other gazillion WiFi hotspots I switch...even when I am at work I switch to the WiFi. Between 2 smartphones on my plan (my son and mine), we use about 1GB.I'm a big fan of unlimited 4G, but what exactly are you going to do to burn through 1 GB in minutes that you can't do when you are around wifi?