Verizon 4G LTE Commercial

[Preach2k]

YouTube - Verizon 4G LTE

 

[Dark Phoenix]

Too bad they'll have the 10 dollar fee also

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

Too bad they'll have the 10 dollar fee also

Might wanna get used to it. AT&T will more than likely do the same thing when they unveil their LTE network and packages.

 

[SdotJ]

To think how people felt so ripped off that sprint was charging and extra ten dollars. I wonder how people will feel about this once is done on Verizon.

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

To be fair, there is no guarantee that Verizon will be charging EVERYONE who purchases a 4G phone any sort of extra fee if they don't have 4G available in their area. We'll see

 

[Dark Phoenix]

Actually, the reason for sprints 10 dollar charge is because the phone is so versatile. At least thats what they say.

 

[CR4V3]

Actually, the reason for sprints 10 dollar charge is because the phone is so versatile. At least thats what they say.

So they're essentially saying don't buy anything else, these phones rule so much we charge more for them. I wonder what the other manufacturers think of that?

 

[Raptor]

Modern smart phones enable MUCH greater data use and the carriers are charging for it. If they offered the more capable phones at the same rate as the less capable phones then the folks with the less capable phones would be, by comparison, taking it up the *ss. The carriers spend money to install and build out a network that they'll need to replace in 3-5 years and you want that for free? Build your own network and we'll see how you manage to stay in business when demand increases MUCH faster than income...

Before smart phones the non voice data use was less than a few MB/month. The early era of smart phones saw the data use increase to a few 10's of MB/month. New smart phones like the Evo are eating 100's of MB/month with many well into the GB/month range. There's even one guy here that brags about eating over 50GB/month.

When the new phones eat 10X-1000X the data of prior phones you have to expect the carriers to charge for it.


Brian