[Follow-Up] Online Petition to Stop Verizon From Killing Unlimited Data

[username243]

But again, you knew a year ago that this was coming. When they stopped offering the Unlimited plan, and 6 months later talked about throttling Unlimited plans that went over 2gb, etc...

You saw ATT do it, you see TMobile throttling. This is the industry as a whole, not just VZW.

Change providers. Only one provider offers Unlimited, and next year when they get rid of it where will you go then?

As for the kid working at the local store representing VZW. Not really. He is just some kid working at a VZW store. He doesn't set policy. He has no authority. And his inept or flawed interpretation of policy is not legally binding to VZW corporate.

Sprint also offers night and weekends starting at 7 pm, unlimited mobile to mobile on any carrier and cheaper texting. There's more benefits to going to Sprint than just the data. I always wanted a reason to switch to Sprint. Now I have one. Even if Sprint gets rid of unlimited data, it's still a better deal than Verizon.

 

[rherron]

Samsung Galaxy S II is $9.99 at AT&T with a new contract. I'm sort of sick of paying for the privilege of updating my device every couple of years anyway. I could hop back and forth between carriers for a couple of years if I need to. Though people here will probably think I am crazy, a 4G iPhone would be fine for 2 years. How far away could that be? I'm just saying, if Verizon thinks they're the only game in town... I'm already a happy U-verse customer.

Cut my unlimited data and it's bye bye Verizon. My wife too.

 

[tgyberg]

You guys are looking at this wrong. Don't you have sympathy for big red's exec's? I mean they may still be slumming in 2012 Bentley's while their friends are driving the 2013's! Let's help these poor folks out!

 

[jpiarull]

Just signed it, at about 2,500, how long before they hit initial goal of 50k?

 

[Tonik]

Verizon has issued a clarification on the issue.

Verizon Officially Clarifies the End of Unlimited Data One More Time – Echoes Our Thoughts From Earlier – Droid Life

• Customers will not be automatically moved to new shared data plans. If a 3G or 4G smartphone customer is on an unlimited plan now and they do not want to change their plan, they will not have to do so.
• When we introduce our new shared data plans, Unlimited Data will no longer be available to customers when purchasing handsets at discounted pricing.
• Customers who purchase phones at full retail price and are on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan.
• The same pricing and policies will be applied to all 3G and 4GLTE smartphones.

 

[crwys]

Verizon has issued a clarification on the issue.

Verizon Officially Clarifies the End of Unlimited Data One More Time – Echoes Our Thoughts From Earlier – Droid Life

• Customers will not be automatically moved to new shared data plans. If a 3G or 4G smartphone customer is on an unlimited plan now and they do not want to change their plan, they will not have to do so.
• When we introduce our new shared data plans, Unlimited Data will no longer be available to customers when purchasing handsets at discounted pricing.
• Customers who purchase phones at full retail price and are on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan.
• The same pricing and policies will be applied to all 3G and 4GLTE smartphones.

So it is just about greed then.
Its not about data hogs.
Or "its what everyone else is doing".
It is just plain greed.

Customers who purchase phones at full retail price and are on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan.

At least now we will be able to keep our unlimited data, we just got to pay 300 to 400 more dollars for a phone.
Until Verizon eventually ends unlimited data all together, or maybe it will just stay like this, who knows.

 

[Sydman]

Yahoo! News

He is trying to back pedal here but still does not say either way if they will be gone.

 

[MoeDaddy]

Well I plan on paying full retail anyway so I don't have that contract hanging over me if/when I want to change my phones to another carrier. So the new update doesn't bother me as much but it still sucks. However, I can see where unlimited is maybe unsustainable but make the limits higher. Make 5gb cost what the 2gb plan does and go up from there, with 4g it is alot easier to breeze thru data caps...

 

[CJM]

Signed. . . .

 

[xeene]

I'd rather buy phones at full retail then give up unlimited data(when we go to out summer home on weekends the phones are the only internet/entertainment source we have there so I can use up to 100gb in a weekend streaming videos to tvs). So now instead of upgrading my phone every 10 months I'll upgrade once every 2-3 years.

 

[BlacknTan]

This will fall on deaf ears, but it should be pointed out anyway. It's not about greed. Verizon is a business. They have to answer not just to customers, but to shareholders as well.

Before people started using large amounts of data, it was cheap for them.

More people using more data = higher costs for verizon.

Higher costs eventually get passed on to consumers. You can't keep eating high costs forever. If you do, profit margins fall and shareholders get angry. Less profits also mean less capitol to invest in new technology and network upgrades. If you mismanage a company long enough, you fail as a business.

Cry about it all you want. Switch to Sprint. Sign a petition. Verizon knows it is going to lose customers over this change... that's part of business too. They've already factored that in to their long-term planning.

There's a reason sprint offers the kinds of discounts and plans that they do. They used to be a horribly managed company and were bleeding subscribers. They have been working hard on a turnaround, but trust me, the sole reason they have such cheap plans is because they need desparately to rebuild their customer base. It has nothing to do with them being "nicer". They will eventually raise their rates and drop unlimited data when it makes economic sense for them to do so.

 

[metalspring]

I'd rather buy phones at full retail then give up unlimited data(when we go to out summer home on weekends the phones are the only internet/entertainment source we have there so I can use up to 100gb in a weekend streaming videos to tvs). So now instead of upgrading my phone every 10 months I'll upgrade once every 2-3 years.

great idea except that when your contact expires you become a month to month customer without a contract which means that they [Verizon] can do whatever they want since they have no obligation to uphold anything that might be in a contract

 

[loki993]

This will fall on deaf ears, but it should be pointed out anyway. It's not about greed. Verizon is a business. They have to answer not just to customers, but to shareholders as well.

Before people started using large amounts of data, it was cheap for them.

More people using more data = higher costs for verizon.

Higher costs eventually get passed on to consumers. You can't keep eating high costs forever. If you do, profit margins fall and shareholders get angry. Less profits also mean less capitol to invest in new technology and network upgrades. If you mismanage a company long enough, you fail as a business.

Cry about it all you want. Switch to Sprint. Sign a petition. Verizon knows it is going to lose customers over this change... that's part of business too. They've already factored that in to their long-term planning.

There's a reason sprint offers the kinds of discounts and plans that they do. They used to be a horribly managed company and were bleeding subscribers. They have been working hard on a turnaround, but trust me, the sole reason they have such cheap plans is because they need desparately to rebuild their customer base. It has nothing to do with them being "nicer". They will eventually raise their rates and drop unlimited data when it makes economic sense for them to do so.

The problem with this logic is that Verizon, and all the other carriers for that matter, brags about how fast they are and encourage the data usage with just about every commercial. They tell you about all these amazing things you can do on you phone. Surf the net, watch movies and TV shows, stream music etc. Now on top of that a lot of the newer phones are HD compounding the problem. When you start doing all that 4 gigs of data doesn't seem like a lot any more. So from one side they are telling you how great the service is and then in the background they are hamstringing it.

Its basically like being handed the keys to a Ferarri, but begin told you can only drive it around the block.

 

[username243]

The problem with this logic is that Verizon, and all the other carriers for that matter, brags about how fast they are and encourage the data usage with just about every commercial. They tell you about all these amazing things you can do on you phone. Surf the net, watch movies and TV shows, stream music etc. Now on top of that a lot of the newer phones are HD compounding the problem. When you start doing all that 4 gigs of data doesn't seem like a lot any more. So from one side they are telling you how great the service is and then in the background they are hamstringing it.

Its basically like being handed the keys to a Ferarri, but begin told you can only drive it around the block.

Not the same comparison. Verizon isn't limiting their data. You can use as much as you want. You just have to pay for it.

 

[loki993]

Not the same comparison. Verizon isn't limiting their data. You can use as much as you want. You just have to pay for it.

Ok, so you buy the Ferarri, but they tell you can only drive it around the block, if yo go farther then that you will have to pay extra for that. Better?