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Unlimited data yanked?

gloriousnumber1

gloriousnumber1

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A friend of mine on Verizon who uses a lot of data told me that Verizon is taking unlimited data off people's accounts who are off contract. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I know they can do it, I just figured it's too expensive and time consuming to actually do. She still has her unlimited, and I explained about the ghost line thing to help her out.
 
Technically speaking, if you're off contract there's no legal obligation that Verizon has to abide by when it comes to your account. There's nothing legally stopping them from doing anything they want to your account including take away Unlimited Data because there's nothing on "paper" to stop them.

I'm not saying that Verizon will in fact do this, I'm just saying that from a legal standpoint Verizon would be well within their legal rights to "mess" with your account. Obviously there would be a public relations nightmare of epic proportions but honestly I don't think Verizon would give a damn one way or another.
 
This would be the ender for me, I would never set foot on big red's turf again if they screwed me over like that.
 
That's news to me. I used like 15 GB last month, haven't heard anything from them. I will do some research.
 
I don't know of any instances this is happening, I'm asking this ahead of time. My friend uses 100+ GB per month. Yeah I know I was shocked too. Usually Pandora and the big one, Netflix.

I know they CAN do this, as I stated. However, if there are bunch people off contract, using a ghost line or paying full price to get new phones, and the top data users started being kicked off, wouldn't that be a dumb idea? I mean, no contract is a bargaining tool for us customers.

I told my friend this: If she gets a ghost line, uses that for a new phone, and pays the $13 per month or so with taxes and fees, and they take her unlimited, she can walk away, not buy any data, and just keep the phone she's not using, stiffing them probably 80% of what she had been paying.

If a lot of people started leaving because they thought their unlimited would be cut off, even a rich company like Verizon should feel it in the pocket book. Word would spread very quickly. I haven't heard anything on here, and this is where we would all hear it, if that were to happen.
 
There's a flaw in your logic. Most people, including myself, don't use a lot of data at all.

I'm at the end of my billing period (a new one starts tomorrow) and I just checked My Verizon and my usage is only 610 MBs for the month, well within what I would consider an appropriate amount of data to be used as far as mobile data. I tend to try and find WiFi when I can.
 
trparky said:
There's a flaw in your logic. Most people, including myself, don't use a lot of data at all.

I'm at the end of my billing period (a new one starts tomorrow) and I just checked My Verizon and my usage is only 610 MBs for the month, well within what I would consider an appropriate amount of data to be used as far as mobile data. I tend to try and find WiFi when I can.
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I use about 4-8 GB per month.
 
gloriousnumber1 said:
I use about 4-8 GB per month.
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You fall in the minority. The majority of people don't use nearly that much.

That's why Verizon set the bar at 2 GBs when the limited plans came out. They knew that 2 GBs would be enough for the majority of people like myself that use on average 700 MBs a month and gave them an extra 1 GB of data just as a buffer zone. AT&T gives an extra 1 GB to make it 3 GBs.
 
I think data varies considerably from person to person. I have unlimited but have never used more than 7gb and average 4gb on LTE.

I am not a fan of open WiFi as they are far from secure and will use data with the exception of my home WiFi. I have credit card, bank and PayPal info that I just don't trust over public WiFi
 
I have VPN server that's about five dollars a month that I use when I'm on Wifi. Fully encrypts my data.
 
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