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LTE Tiered Data To Begin July 7th

SeekerOfTheWay said:
I had AT&T for six years and I didn't get very good coverage out west. My parents have them now and they drop a lot of calls.
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A friend of mine swears by them here in central NY. Says he's never dropped a call. NYC was a different story though. haha
 
RVRoadTrip said:
I will keep my rooted X on Froyo and stay with the current "unlimited" plan. I don't need 4G so it is not a concern for me. I bought my X on release day so I have until mid 2012 before I would even think about upgrading.
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+100. I didn't get my X till this year, but I'm happy with it. I'll wait till they get the bugs out of GB too. Or maybe CM7...hmmm.
 
ekyle said:
Sprint doesn't have very good coverage in several places that I frequent unfortunately. AT&T was my only other option but a member in another thread highly suggested I don't go that route lol.
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Yeah - Sprint isn't so hot if you get outside major urban areas much. As much as the pricing makes me unhappy, the only other choice is AT&T. And I know too many people with AT&T who validate that their service sucks hard. At least we'd pay more for service and coverage that will be there.
 
I'm a former Sprint customer and as bad as I don't like what Verizon is doing I will not be going back there. Not sure if AT&T or T-Mobile would be worth the switch.
 
My two cents worth, you guys are kidding yourselves if you don't think the other carriers will follow suit. It will only be a matter of time.

With that said, and today's news Current Verizon Customers Won’t Ever Be Affected by Tiered Data, Only New Customers and Lines? - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

I may have to go pick up this phone (Charge), even though I don't want, so I can lock-in 4G unlimited pricing. I'm still waiting on an the 4G dual-core phones, and I'm sure VW is marketing everything this way...meaning no 4G dual-cores until after tiered pricing. I would be willing to get a temporary contract price phone NOW, and simply buy the phone I want OUTRIGHT later.
 
WA_Bob said:
Yeah - Sprint isn't so hot if you get outside major urban areas much. As much as the pricing makes me unhappy, the only other choice is AT&T. And I know too many people with AT&T who validate that their service sucks hard. At least we'd pay more for service and coverage that will be there.
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Sucks harder than a collapsed star from what I've been told by many. (Thanks to The Oatmeal for that simile lol)

jamor said:
Hopefully this will be confirmed within the next week. I don't want to make an impulse buy on an LTE phone if I don't have to.
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Unfortunately, they might not release that info until they announce the new plans and make them active.
 
SeekerOfTheWay said:
I'm surprised VZW didn't have a 4G tiered data plan ready when the Thunderbolt was released. Why Is that do you think?
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Bait people in to spread the word about how fast it is? Not enough 4G coverage to justify it from a marketing standpoint? Something like that I'd guess.

EDIT: Wouldn't want to scare people off with scary new prices before anyone buys into LTE hardware.
 
RVRoadTrip said:
I will keep my rooted X on Froyo and stay with the current "unlimited" plan. I don't need 4G so it is not a concern for me. I bought my X on release day so I have until mid 2012 before I would even think about upgrading.
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I agree. I don't think I've even broken 1 GB so far. I bought mine near the end of December with the free line deal, so we're saving $9.99 a month as it is now. I won't be worried until 2012, if I even upgrade then, considering I don't know when Milwaukee will get decent 4G.

However, it does seem like a massive ripoff. For people who rely on their smartphones for more than just phone usage, I can see $30 for 2 MB to very easily be far too little, especially as people dump their landlines.
 
My wife and I have a family plan. I have a smartphone (HTC Incredible) and unlimited data. She has a non smartphone and no data plan. Our contract expires in the spring of next year. She would like to get a smartphone but is not eligible to upgrade at a discount until next January. I was recently notified I was eligible for an early upgrade. If we wait, it sounds like I can keep the unlimited data but she would have to get the tiered data.

However, if I upgrade now (before 7/7), give her my HTC Incredible and have her line switched over to it, she could get the unlimited data and be grandfathered in as it looks like I will be.

Anyone see any holes in this given what we know so far about Verizon's plans?
 
Question will be if they do something like require you to switch plans to move to 4G or if they drop pricing on talk and text so you want to switch.
 
ekyle said:
Bait people in to spread the word about how fast it is? Not enough 4G coverage to justify it from a marketing standpoint? Something like that I'd guess.

EDIT: Wouldn't want to scare people off with scary new prices before anyone buys into LTE hardware.
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Probably also because they needed to use the Thunderbolt and Charge users as their "beta testers" for the new network which is why they also gave the wifi hotspot for free.
 
That sounds right. I am in the same situation, but I decided to just buy a Droid 1 for my wife off craigslist for $70 so I didn't have to use my upgrade. Her upgrade is in August and she will get an iphone (sigh) when the iPhone5 comes out.
 
Unfortunately for those of us who hope for full grandfathering with no exceptions in the future, we will have to wait and see regardless of what VZ reveals on July 7. Like anything else, VZ could change its policy a year from now about grandfathering.

You can disagree with the philosophy about raising prices and complain about "corporate greed", but a corporation is in business to make profits and in fact has an obligation to its shareholders to make profits.

Second, if people in the long term are outraged enough to leave VZ, then VZ may have to adjust its pricing to compensate for the loss of customers. However, people are constantly coming to VZ from other carriers who are dissatisfied with service quality by other carriers and who already know that VZ plans cost more. VZ's new tiered data plans may not change the influx of customers much. For many people, the better service is worth it and for many people, their overall costs would decrease as a result of calling people frequently who are already on VZ, despite the new tiered data plans.

In the interim, I would not asssume that other companies will not make similar price increases. For a recent example in another industry, look at airlines charges for baggage, with only a few holdouts in the industry.

The cost of goods and services have risen in so many other areas of our lives that I believe it is not unreasonable to expect cell phone/data services to raise. We can nit pick the reasons why the carriers are raising their costs, but I believe we are all reasonably on notice that just about any cost we incur for anything may raise for some reason or the other. I am not saying that we should smile about it, though.
 
generic username said:
You can disagree with the philosophy about raising prices and complain about "corporate greed", but a corporation is in business to make profits and in fact has an obligation to its shareholders to make profits.
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Yes I learned this in business school too.

I still think it is a terrible excuse for corporate greed and price gouging.
 
generic username said:
Unfortunately for those of us who hope for full grandfathering with no exceptions in the future, we will have to wait and see regardless of what VZ reveals on July 7. Like anything else, VZ could change its policy a year from now about grandfathering.

You can disagree with the philosophy about raising prices and complain about "corporate greed", but a corporation is in business to make profits and in fact has an obligation to its shareholders to make profits.

Second, if people in the long term are outraged enough to leave VZ, then VZ may have to adjust its pricing to compensate for the loss of customers. However, people are constantly coming to VZ from other carriers who are dissatisfied with service quality by other carriers and who already know that VZ plans cost more. VZ's new tiered data plans may not change the influx of customers much. For many people, the better service is worth it and for many people, their overall costs would decrease as a result of calling people frequently who are already on VZ, despite the new tiered data plans.

In the interim, I would not asssume that other companies will not make similar price increases. For a recent example in another industry, look at airlines charges for baggage, with only a few holdouts in the industry.

The cost of goods and services have risen in so many other areas of our lives that I believe it is not unreasonable to expect cell phone/data services to raise. We can nit pick the reasons why the carriers are raising their costs, but I believe we are all reasonably on notice that just about any cost we incur for anything may raise for some reason or the other. I am not saying that we should smile about it, though.
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I agree. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they killed the grandfathering concept before the bolt adopters hit their 2-year
 
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