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

[SquireSCA]

I watched the video and my honest opinion is that you all sound like a bunch of whiney kids crying about how it isn't fair.

You have Unlimited as part of your contract. Guess what? When your 2 year contract is up, they are no longer legally obligated to give you anything that was in that contract. I want the same price for a new car as I paid in 1995. Guess what? It ain't gonna happen, prices have gone up.

You had Unlimited for a few years, but the market is changing and that's life, deal with it and stop whining about it already. Yes they are being greedy, but they are also spending billions of dollars on new networks and infrastructure and if you are sapping up 30GB a month on a stupid phone, then you have a problem. If a restaurant was all you can eat for 5 years, but then they decided to change to a standard menu and price structure, you can either continue to eat there and pay the new prices, or go down the street to the other all you can eat place.

But crying and screaming about how the owner is not allowed to change their menu or prices because "This is what I am used to and what I want" just isn't a good argument, legally.

Seriously, grow up already...

 

[ndtaylor77]

When my contract is up, I will decide which carrier best suits my needs for the best price. Hopefully, that carrier will still be Verizon.

 

[King_Bean]

You had Unlimited for a few years, but the market is changing and that's life, deal with it and stop whining about it already. Yes they are being greedy, but they are also spending billions of dollars on new networks and infrastructure and if you are sapping up 30GB a month on a stupid phone, then you have a problem.

Exaggerate much? Dude, I use between 1.5 and 3GB per billing cycle. When I upgrade to a 4G phone, I will be forced to pay huge overages for those billing cycles that I exceed 2GB OR I will have to upgrade to the 5GB plan, which will cost me an extra $20 per month (and, mind you, I'm already paying nearly $130 per month for ONE LINE). There's no way you're going to convince me that I shouldn't be pissed about that.

I don't have a problem with a company making money or setting up data caps. My only problem with this is that the data caps are just so low. If they really wanted to curtail the users who are "sapping up 30GB a month", they would have set the cap at around 5 or 6GB (for $30).

 

[SquireSCA]

Exaggerate much? Dude, I use between 1.5 and 3GB per billing cycle. When I upgrade to a 4G phone, I will be forced to pay huge overages for those billing cycles that I exceed 2GB OR I will have to upgrade to the 5GB plan, which will cost me an extra $20 per month (and, mind you, I'm already paying nearly $130 per month for ONE LINE). There's no way you're going to convince me that I shouldn't be pissed about that.

I don't have a problem with a company making money or setting up data caps. My only problem with this is that the data caps are just so low. If they really wanted to curtail the users who are "sapping up 30GB a month", they would have set the cap at around 5 or 6GB (for $30).

Which is why I left Unlimited and grabbed the double the data. I spend the same $30 but get 4GB instead of 2GB, so I don't need to pay $50 for 5.

I saw this coming last year, so I took advantage of it while I could. Why didn't you?

 

[King_Bean]

Which is why I left Unlimited and grabbed the double the data. I spend the same $30 but get 4GB instead of 2GB, so I don't need to pay $50 for 5.

I saw this coming last year, so I took advantage of it while I could. Why didn't you?

Two reasons. First, I didn't know about the "double the data" promotion until recently. Secondly, I HONESTLY thought Verizon would be satasfied with strictly signing up new customers to tiered data plans, while allowing grandfathered people to stay with unlimited. I really didn't think they would resort to yanking unlimited from grandfathered folks and risk pissing off customers.

Yes, you had some good foresight but you are in the minority. The majority of grandfathered people are in my shoes and did not see this coming.

 

[SquireSCA]

Two reasons. First, I didn't know about the "double the data" promotion until recently. Secondly, I HONESTLY thought Verizon would be satasfied with strictly signing up new customers to tiered data plans, while allowing grandfathered people to stay with unlimited. I really didn't think they would resort to yanking unlimited from grandfathered folks and risk pissing off customers.

Yes, you had some good foresight but you are in the minority. The majority of grandfathered people are in my shoes and did not see this coming.

Well, several of us posted about this last year. A ton of people sat there smugly bragging about how they were eternally grandfathered in and could use 20GB a month with impunity, and several of us laughed at them, publically as we saw the writing on the wall.

Fast forward a year and here we are, exactly where I predicted we would be. I love the smell of vindication in the morning. hehe

 

[thirdstone]

Here's the number to corporate HQ it was given to me by customer service although against company policy call and give then hell (908) 559-2000 COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING RIPPED OFF

 

[goldwingerx2]

Yep, 10 years autopay and 5 lines plus MiFi will be looking for another carrier.

 

[joyful_april]

signed!

 

[BenLand150]

I just wanna know, do you think buying phones from eBay and activating those will cancel out your unlimited instead of upgrading full retail with Verizon?

 

[mustangdroid]

If they remove my unlimited data I will cancel my contract and say hello to straight talk. $45 a month for everything unlimited, you cant beat that.

 

[dshubert]

where do you go to sign the petition?

 

[CJM]

where do you go to sign the petition?

Click this >>>> Online Petition to Stop Verizon From Killing Off Unlimited Data Plans

 

[jimmiethemum]

Done

 

[cybertec69]

I just wanna know, do you think buying phones from eBay and activating those will cancel out your unlimited instead of upgrading full retail with Verizon?

No, I brought my Rezound from an eBay member that to my luck lived in the same town, we met up at a Verizon corporate store did the sale and had my Rezound activated by a Verizon employee in the corporate store, no questions asked, my plan continued as it was with my previous Incredible "unlimited data plan".
Let's make things a little clear here, if YOU PURCHASE THE PHONE FROM ANYONE AT ANY PRICE YOU WILL KEEP YOUR UNLIMITED DATA, once you purchase the phone from Verizon, Amazon, Radio Shack or any other authorized Verizon reseller WITH A NEW TWO YEAR CONTRACT "at a discounted price",the reason for the discounted price is that you are signing up again for a two year contract with the carrier. My contract has expired and I am now on a month to month basis, and still have unlimited data, as long as you don't change your plan you will stay on unlimited data unless Verizon says otherwise, which one year from now might change. Hope this helped.

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