Does the unlimited plan end after your 2year "contract" unless you renew/get a new phone?
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Verizon Pre-order, Release date, and speculation thread
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AntimonyER
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Since I believe you are "signing" the new contract when you complete your order, and just confirming it when you activate your phone, you will be grandfathered in if you have ordered your phone, but not activated it. When I ordered my Droid Incredible, I was subject to the shipping delay, and had to wait for almost a month for my phone, however my next upgrade date was based on my original purchase date, not the activation date.
Also I think as long as you have an account in good standing, you can charge your phone to your account. I have been doing something similar to you the past few times, and I have never had a problem.
According to the VZW press release, as long as you don't utilize a subsidized upgrade, you will get to keep your unlimited indefinitely.
gloriousnumber1
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The policy change coming this summer is that if you don't upgrade "sometime this summer" before shared data plans start, you won't keep your unlimited. If you have it now, you keep it. If you upgrade after this summer, you must pay full price for a phone or lose it. This isn't official yet. I hope we have warning!
Sandroidfan
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Even if we upgrade before this new plan coming in summer, will we be able to keep unlimited data on next future upgrade without buying phone at full price? I think they will allow only one more upgrade with unlimited data before this plan and it's going away after that.
gloriousnumber1
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I'd sure love to know how much longer we have!
heyeaglefn
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Rumored date for Canada is now June 20th.
I don't mind to pay the full price at all. I had paid that much for my 4G Galaxy Tab 10.1 last year anyway. The question is that, when will Verizon officially sell it? Based on their track record, they are consistently the last or close to the last carrier to get any new phone. I don't want to wait till September or October to get this phone.
Eryl Flynn
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Yep, and they already have one phone that appears to have been significantly pushed back. The Droid Fighter had an official release of the 4-12 according to leaked internal documents and it is barely even talked about now.
I think it would be foolish and would possibly loose them customers if they delay on this though. I am not sure if they care or believe people might jump ship.
I think it would be foolish and would possibly loose them customers if they delay on this though. I am not sure if they care or believe people might jump ship.
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I think some will jump ship for the S3. Not like mad for the iPhone in the past. It would be silly for them not to have it or to wait too long. Throw in the loss of unlimited data, I think a few people wanting unlimited and the S3 NOW, will probably leave.
FML. Big Red is making it more difficult to be their customer. Then again, there is almost no way in hell im going back to Sprint.
JoJoCal19
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My grandfathered unlimited plan was the one last remaining advantage VZW had over AT&T for me. Without that I'm looking at going to AT&T where I can have the advantage of popping the SIM in whatever awesome new GSM phone I get my hands on.
Exactly. The unlimited data is pretty much the only thing going for VZW and good customer service. I won't go to AT&T though cause I had issues with them back in the landline days. I know for a fact that they sell your information to other companies. This damn phone needs to come soon to VZW to eliminate that threat! I really don't want to get a Nexus or Razr Maxx just to keep the damn unlimited plan.
Official??? IIRC the screenshot was a pretty generic spreadsheet, that someone actually recreated with some phony phone names and dates... There was nothing official about those "internal" documents....
Eryl Flynn
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Sorry did not know that, still the rest of my point stands. If they hold off too long they risk losing customers with everyone else getting this phone and the fact those grandfathered in won't be. They might be willing to lose some to get more off grandfathered, but the question is which is more important? Retention or clearing unlimited?
I agree. I believe everyone is doing that. That includes all wireless carriers, all social network sites like Facebook, your internet provider like TimeWarner, your credit card companies, and don't forget your local grocery store that is tracking your buying habit.
The only way to have TRUE privacy is to live off the grid. Completely unplugged.
Blacklight82
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This phone better hit Verizon before the tiered data plans switch over. That'll be my final upgrade at Verizon. If not, looks like the Droid Razr Maxx.
AntimonyER
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I hope so too. Not that I am getting it, but would be nice to have a recently released option.
We all hope that. But the chance is very slim for two reasons:
1. Verizon Wireless is known to be the last or close to the last carrier to get their variant of any new phone. There is no reason to believe they want to break that track record and ruin their reputation for being the last.
2. From a pure financial standpoint, if you were Verizon and you have a chance to force people to give up their unlimited data plan or force them to buy those crappy Motorola and LG phones in order to keep their status (clean up your idle inventory), will you mess up your plan by introducing a fantastic phone before the tied data plan starts?
As a current unlimited plan customer, I do not like it at all but I am just thinking logically. And just like many other posters here, the unlimited plan is the ONLY thing that is keeping me with Verizon. If the phone comes out after the tied data plan, depending how long that I have to wait, I will switch to AT&T within a heart beat to their variant of the Galaxy S III. There is no more reason for me to stay.
heyeaglefn
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Just buy a Maxx before tiered plans start, then sell it and put money towards S3.
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Back when I had a landline with AT&T(ages ago) they mispelled my name on my account(this was the only time I've ever had something in my name misspelled and it was misspelled in a specific manner). When I cancelled my service with them I started getting junk mail with the EXACT same misspelled name that AT&T had me on. So yeah. No tinfoil hat needed.
Your logic is truly dizzying. How in the world does a "leaked internal document" equal "an official release"?
When your mom said there may be spaghetti for dinner, then made meatloaf instead, did you scream "but you promised, you promised, you promised"?
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Is unlimited data that important? I look at my bill and the most I've seen is about 4gb-6gb. Mostly 2gb-3gb.
However, I don't want to give up UL data cause someday I "might" want it.
I wonder how many UL data people actually would need it? If you can get 5gb for the same as the old UL data plans, most would never use 5gb I'd think. However, those posting here on the forums are not the "norm".
Although I don't think I need UL data, I will pay full retail for the S3 to keep it. That says a lot about buying phone for $650-$700 instead of $300 on contract.
However, I don't want to give up UL data cause someday I "might" want it.
I wonder how many UL data people actually would need it? If you can get 5gb for the same as the old UL data plans, most would never use 5gb I'd think. However, those posting here on the forums are not the "norm".
Although I don't think I need UL data, I will pay full retail for the S3 to keep it. That says a lot about buying phone for $650-$700 instead of $300 on contract.
heyeaglefn
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A lot of us that have unlimited data have the $20 off per line deal with it, so yes, if I could get 5GB for $9.99 per line I would be ok, but that isn't happening.
Frankly, I have never ever gone over 2GB per month. And I use my phone a lot. But I don't stream music or video. Just surfing the Net, tweeting and Facebooking are not going to consume a lot of data.
First of all, watching movie on a cell phone is really pointless because of the miserable screen size. Size does matter when it comes to viewing. Secondly, I don't have that kind of free time outside my house to watch video as I have a job. If I am at home, I would rather watch movies on my HDTV. I don't stream music from my cell phone because most of the songs that I like are on my SD card anyway, so there is no need to stream any music when I am on the go. And when I am at work, I don't have time to listen to music anyway because my job is very demanding. Frankly, if you have plenty of time to stream video and music at work, chances are your employer probably can do without you.
In my humble opinion, the majority of the consumers out there are very similar to me as far as usage. So I don't worry too much about going over the data limit. But it is a human nature that when you have unlimited of something, you do not want to give it up voluntarily. That's why I have been staying with Verizon even though I was very upset that they decided not to carry the Galaxy S II. If Verizon forces their hand and makes me give up my unlimited plan, they are actually making it easier for me to switch carrier to get the new phone faster. So in fact, they are shooting themselves on their feet.
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