I was heavily considering leaving. I looked at other carriers and mostly considered Sprint. But their idiotic charge of $10 per month per 4G phone turned me off fast, considering their LTE network isn't even in my area, so I'd be paying an extra $20 per month for two smartphones for a service I'm not getting.
Most recently I was going to drop Verizon when my contact was up in January and get the Nexus 4 and go prepaid. I found some appealing deals on prepaid service and was ready to pull the trigger. But my wife wouldn't hear of it. She wanted to stay on Verizon even though we'd be paying more. I figured we could save at least $50 a month by going prepaid, and with no contracts we could go back to Verizon any time. But I couldn't convince her since she was scared of losing Verizon's excellent network, something I've never disputed, their pricing choices and handling of data plans is where I have a beef.
But my current phone is having problems, and I don't really want to do the ebay tango again (where I got this Droid 2 after my Droid Incredible died of drowning in a pool last year) and Wirefly was selling the Razr HD for free till the end of January, so I caved and got it. It's actually due to be delivered today if all goes well. While I don't regret the phone choice, I do regret signing another Verizon contact for two years and losing my unlimited plan. I was kicking myself for not just going prepaid and getting the Nexus 4 when it's supposed to come back in stock this month.
So while I'm going to enjoy my new Razr, and I won't complain too much since I voluntarily signed a contract, I'm going prepaid next time regardless. Even if my wife can't bear to leave Verizon I'll just remove my line when the contract expires and get a prepaid plan and let her stay.
But who knows? In two years she might change her mind, after all she got very upset about the $30 upgrade fee (which I already knew about and factored into the savings of dropping Verizon) and is also upset at losing her unlimited plan. Net10 has a $90 plan for two smartphones right now and you get talk text and unlimited data (which gets throttled after 2 GB,but that I can live with, I'd rather be throttled than instantly charged more).
That's just been my dilemma for the past few months, and my solution wouldn't work for everyone, but I'm still in the drop Verizon camp after all is considered. I just don't feel like Verizon values me as a customer anymore what with the new fees, the awful share plans (because of the price for data, not for the sharing) it feels like Verizon only sees me as a cash cow to be milked for all I'm worth. And to top it off LTE is more efficient and cheaper for Verizon than 3G, so they're actually making a whole lot more money off of me, it's quite sickening. Verizon should know something is wrong when I feel extremely used by renewing a contract with them.
