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Verizon Ending Unlimited Data for Grandfathered Users

Yeahha said:
Yeah probably what I would do as well...my mom could use a dumb phone so it wouldn't hurt me to upgrade if anything nicer than the gnex comes along soon...hoping for a note competitor
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I would love to have a variant of the note. Though I've become partial to htc as of late.
 
digdug1 said:
I would love to have a variant of the note. Though I've become partial to htc as of late.
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Last I heard VZW may be getting an HTC response to the note not a note variant. After the TB I would be willing to go with HTC there was so much to do there that is missing from a pure android device
 
Yeahha said:
Last I heard VZW may be getting an HTC response to the note not a note variant. After the TB I would be willing to go with HTC there was so much to do there that is missing from a pure android device
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Sweet.

I agree about htc. I'll swap between a sense Rom and aosp from time to time. I still enjoy my bolt though things slowed down development wise after you Scottie and worm moved on. When I do upgrade it'll be because of that more than feeling my phones outdated.
 
It sounds like we are all in agreement, the most intriguing rumored device is that HTC "note" to me as well.
 
digdug1 said:
Sweet.

I agree about htc. I'll swap between a sense Rom and aosp from time to time. I still enjoy my bolt though things slowed down development wise after you Scottie and worm moved on. When I do upgrade it'll be because of that more than feeling my phones outdated.
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My sister uses my bolt now and needed a new phone which is why I upgraded...I would love to still get to tinker with it but she won't let me...:(...but it wasn't Worm, Scotty, and I doing the development just support here on AF ;) the devs jumped to other devices too...
 
If they expect me to pay >$100/month, I am going back to a prepaid flip phone. Work/school has wifi anyway. I sure hope they realize they will crash and burn trying to squeeze more money out of existing customers. Look what happened to netflix.
 
Yeah...I don't know if I am the only person who personally finds it boring...there isn't that much that changes between roms since it is AOSP anyways...at least when you have a sense phone the changes are noticable and you can flash different versions of Sense...seems like most gnex roms are the same with slightly different themes...
 
Yeahha said:
Yeah...I don't know if I am the only person who personally finds it boring...there isn't that much that changes between roms since it is AOSP anyways...at least when you have a sense phone the changes are noticable and you can flash different versions of Sense...seems like most gnex roms are the same with slightly different themes...
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Seemed that way to me on the og droid too. In retrospect anyway. Didn't really seem that way then. Mostly all that changed was quadrant scores lol.
I remember getting a 1700 with liquid and thinking this is the best rom ever lol.
 
The last sentence that came out of the mouth of Verizon CEO...."We feel this new change will benefit us".

NO SH_T Sherlock. I didn't figure it was going to benefit us consumers.....
 
digdug1 said:
Seemed that way to me on the og droid too. In retrospect anyway. Didn't really seem that way then. Mostly all that changed was quadrant scores lol.
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Yeah I'm actually on liquid which is the rom I used on the OG and TB...for me it comes down to footprint size of the rom but looking back at my OG Droid days the roms were all basically the same too
 
Well, shut the front door :what:. Verizon Wireless is just looking to lose me as a customer. I'm one that don't abuse the system but being grandfathered in the unlimited plan was one of the perks of being a long time customer.
 
Any speculation as to how long it will be before they screw over those who pay full price for their phones? I'm unlimited and throttled more hours of the day than not, but I'll be damned if I'm going to give them the satisfaction of signing up for a tiered plan. They'll have to pry my unlimited out of my cold dead hands first. Problem is tho, that's probably exactly what will happen when we want to activate a full price device. When "V" doesn't get the hold outs they'll come up with something else to screw us over. I can see it happening. Choose a tiered plan before activation. :mad:
 
Hey, I am going to merge this thread with the ongoing discussion in the Verizon subforum. Thanks for understanding.
 
Oh yes, and needing to check 3 different forums because some devs had issues with some (all) talk about fun times :rofl:
 
Could this maybe blow up in their face? How can they offer such data heavy apps and programs and expect customers to pay the price of admission. 2GB caps are going to get blown thru on the first or second day of the billing cycles. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I'm holding fast to my unlimited as long as possible.
 
It could also be used on wifi...I wouldn't mind a way to search multiple online streaming librarys personally but I doubt they are gonna partner with Amazon or Crunchyroll...
 
Unforgiven said:
That is where I think VZW (and all carriers) will get into trouble. They keep bloating phones with cloud solutions or bandwidth heavy apps to bait customers into using bandwidth yet trying to put them on unreasonable limits to effectively use it.
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Yeah, don't know if it will ever catch up with them though. All the other options seem worse (breaking them up, turning them into utilities, taking over hardware and they become providers only, or full government takeover.)
 
Viewdini: Could this app be Verizon’s first pass at toll-free mobile data?

Verizon didn’t reveal any details about how this high-quality, long-form content would gel with its restricted data plans when the app launches later this month, but I suspect Viewdini may be Verizon’s first venture into the ‘toll-free’ mobile broadband: Rather than charge the customer for the gigabytes of video consumed, it charges the content provider.
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Viewdini would fit perfectly with that model because video consumes enormous bandwidth relative to other services. If Verizon customers were to make regular use of TV show and movie streaming they would quickly max out their data plans (or enter into throttling territory in the case of its grandfathered unlimited customers). Without any kind of tweak to Verizon’s capping policies, Viewdini practically invites customers to run up huge overage charges, which would hardly be a customer relations coup.
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In each case, Verizon could skim a little from the top of each purchase, for instance collecting a portion of a movie rental or purchase fee. In the case of subscription video services like Hulu Plus or Netflix, Verizon could take a share of monthly revenue from every subscriber that used Viewdini or just charge the video providers flat per-gigabyte or per-stream fees.
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