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[irkenmodelgir]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

When you go in store, (in my personal exp.) they said not to listen to things being said online, and the guy checked with 3 diffrent people to see if it would carry over, just for mentioning it. Basically by pre-ordering it, you will be signing a new contract with them. This new contract is still before there new data plans, so regardless of any phone you would get at this time, you can still get Unlimited. It's not till after they make the change, that you would be SOL for keeping your plan, unless you want to pay for the phone in full XD.

 

[cyberdalek]

how can four companies be a monopoly?

Okay, wrong word. How about an oligopoly. An oligopoly of four that will soon turn into two.

Whatever we call it, consumers suffer.

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[cyberdalek]

There's no discount on your plan if you buy off contract so Verizon probably doesn't care assuming you're going to stay anyways. That's one less device they have to subsidize and still money in their pockets.

That's true but there isn't a reason for someone to stick around without a contract. How many times this week have we seen the phrase, "as soon as my contact is over..."?


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[PJnc284]

That's true but there isn't a reason for someone to stick around without a contract. How many times this week have we seen the phrase, "as soon as my contact is over..."?


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And how many do you think are just blowing off steam. For a lot of people, Verizon is the only reliable option. Grass isn't always greener.

 

[Ry]

Okay, wrong word. How about an oligopoly. An oligopoly of four that will soon turn into two.

Whatever we call it, consumers suffer.

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Sprint and T-Mobile are both competitively priced compared to Verizon and AT&T.

Sprint's network upgrade plans are the right path for them and I hope enough subscribers stick around so they'll be around long enough to execute. Once completely, their network will be strong.

T-Mobile refarming their 3G to 1900 MHz is a great first step and it'll help.keep their device costs less as it'll be cheaper for manufacturers to support T-Mobile.

Don't sleep on the regionals and prepaid as well. A good merger might create a strong number 5.

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[PJnc284]

Sprint's network upgrade plans are the right path for them and I hope enough subscribers stick around so they'll be around long enough to execute. Once completely, their network will be strong.

Question is will they run out of money first. They have a lot of improving to do.

 

[Cory Streater]

Yeah, this is the unfortunate problem that Sprint faces:

 

[ultimate_ed]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

Hi ultimate_ed You are trying to upgrade your dauthers line, did your dauther have a smart phone before?
I had 2 lines that didnt have a smart phone but had unlimited data.

2 months ago I ordered 2 smart phones and had a hard time to put them back into the old plan. Took me around 3 weeks to straighten it out. lots of phone calls to verizon.

That may be a factor then. My daughter's current phone in an ENV3, so not a smartphone. But, we do have the unlimited data on it.

I may have to arm wrestle a sales droid at the store, but I'll keep at it until my preorder SIII gets its unlimited data!

 

[anon(394005)]

What I find troubling is that Sprint only allotted 10MHz of its network spectrum for 4G LTE whereas AT&T and Verizon did 20MHz which provides greater bandwidth, so even when Sprint does get their LTE network up, it could get clogged up quickly unless they add more spectrum. They have a long road ahead of them to fully compete with AT&T or Verizon.

 

[PJnc284]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

Probably a losing battle. Unlimited data on a dumb phone won't carry over to a smartphone afaik.

 

[Suntan]

Everyone loves to hate on Big Red, even me.

At the end of the day though, Big Red is the only one that has LTE at my house, my parent's house and my in-law's house (both of the latter live in the boonies.)

I price checked the other options as soon as the new VZW plan was announced just to get a feel for my options if the unlimited data thing went sideways, their plans aren't nearly attractive enough for me to switch.

-Suntan

 

[noturbizniss]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

That may be a factor then. My daughter's current phone in an ENV3, so not a smartphone. But, we do have the unlimited data on it.

I may have to arm wrestle a sales droid at the store, but I'll keep at it until my preorder SIII gets its unlimited data!

If you are transferring her upgrade to your line you can keep it. If you are actually upgrading her phone, then forget about it. Feature phone unlimited cannot be upgraded to smartphone unlimited. I made that mistake last year when they originally made the switch. I added unlimited to my env3 the day before the switch then found out i couldn't transfer it. I went to craiglist and found someone leaving the country who wanted to offload his unlimited plan, so I did an assumption of liability and got unlimited that way.

 

[Kyprain]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

Hi ultimate_ed The only person that helped me was this number 877-873-3278. Good luck

 

[osubeavs728]

I don't think it's going to help anyone to keep calling Verizon customer service. It has been shown multiple times on a lot of varying issues that the CS reps really don't know what's going on. Also, I think it's been shown multiple times that Verizon can change their mind at any minute in regards to any decision they make. They are the one's providing the service after all. There's only one way to know for sure whether the unlimited plans are going to stay with preorders and that comes when the phone arrives and is activated. It sucks to say, but I've come to learn that the only words you can trust from Verizon are the ones on the printed contract.

 

[irkenmodelgir]

Re: unlimited data and pre-order of galaxy iii @ best buy

It's been said many times but in my expereance this past Tuesday.

Go to BB and talk with Cell phone guy, talk about a few things involving SG3.
Mention the "keeping unlimited", he shakes his head and says that he was told "Thay can't carry it over because of the order and the activation after said date."

I walk out and head to Verizon store and get idiots.

But in my expereance with BB I will say this, If it was untrue, well I did go to BB and they don't really know anything anyway so what more could I expect.

Or he did tell me the truth, which Kudos to him, and all i could think of was the amount of rage BB would get in other stores that did Pre-order and screw people over.

Either way, I will still be getting the phone so meh.

 

[ultimate_ed]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

What if I transfer her upgrade to my line, do the upgrade from mine, and then have my old phone given to her number? It's essentially what I intend to do anyway. I had just planned to doe the upgrade on her line, then after I got the SIII I planned to have Verizon swap the numbers between the two phones.

 

[PJnc284]

Re: How are you guys pre-ordering and keeping your unlimited?

What if I transfer her upgrade to my line, do the upgrade from mine, and then have my old phone given to her number? It's essentially what I intend to do anyway. I had just planned to doe the upgrade on her line, then after I got the SIII I planned to have Verizon swap the numbers between the two phones.

You'll still need a smartphone data package for the Gnex and since she has a basic phone, the unlimited won't carry over.

 

[jadams]

I had hopes that the new plans would actually be better than the old plans. I have 2 smart devices and 2 basic phones. I am on the 1400 shared plan now and pay a total of $207 a month. If I switch to a new plan the basic phones go from $10 each to $30 each and if I select 4GB data my bill will be $210 BEFORE taxes....no savings here at all.

 

[Alewood]

I'm in the same boat as you jadams, same amount of phones and everything. My question is, if I decided to upgrade 1 of the basic phones after the 28 June date, how will it affect by bill? Will I have to switch every line to the new plan? If anyone can advise me it would be appreciated.

 

[dkeven]

asked my CS rep that exact question seeing as I am in the same boat with 2 smart and 2 basic, one unlimited and one 2/4gb current. Answer I got from this particular
cs was if you buy it off contract you can use the 700 or 1400 plan with data pay as you go or upgrade to share for all for everyone. In other words yes your grandfathered but change anything plan wise and we got you.