(Rumor) Verizon planning To End All Unlimited Data Plans By End Of 2014!

[JohnnytheK]

Semantics, if I wanted a new phone I would lose unlimited data. As about the phone being subsidized you actually pay full price for the phone over the two year contract.
You are right nobody put a gun to my head, it was my choice.

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[jackiescivic]

Who has VZW made give-up their unlimited data?

Who has AT&T made give-up their unlimited data?

 

[skennelly]

My main concern would be getting locked into a contract of a carrier with spotty service/dropped calls....or buying a phone full-retail that I can't take back to VZW or somewhere else.

I can survive no problem on 1 gig of data...just have to be careful when I travel (or spend an extra 10 bucks for another gig in months I travel).

I just can't be sympathetic to the arguments and complaining when only about 3 years ago you had to really, really try to go over 2 gigs in a month. Even the vast, vast majority of complainers would not be overly put out or inconvenienced to adjust their usage habits.

My plan would be to sign up for the new service prior to ending my Verizon contract. There is always a grace period for new service. It it didn't work for me then I'd keep Verizon as a last resort.

 

[kodiak799]

Well for one me. I was ready for an update and if I got a new phone and then signed up for a new 2 year contract I would lose unlimited data. I was able to keep it by buying my phone out right.

So, in other words, VZW did NOT make you give up you your unlimited data...

 

[JohnnytheK]

So, in other words, VZW did NOT make you give up you your unlimited data...

So in other words I was.

something to think about.

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March 8, 2013 12:00 AM PST

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[kodiak799]

So in other words I was.

No, if you were forced off unlimited you would not still have unlimited. Not sure what is so difficult to understand.

 

[JohnnytheK]

No, if you were forced off unlimited you would not still have unlimited. Not sure what is so difficult to understand.

Same here, English must be a second language?

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[MissionImprobable]

Same here, English must be a second language?

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You were given the option to:
a) Pay full retail and keep your Unlimited Data
b) Sign a new contract with a tiered Data plan and receive your phone at a subsidized price
c) Leave Verizon

You had a set of choices, therefore you were not forced to do anything. You may not like the options that you were given, and you may feel that given certain external circumstances only one option was viable for you, but you were given choices.

 

[kodiak799]

You had a set of choices, therefore you were not forced to do anything. You may not like the options that you were given, and you may feel that given certain external circumstances only one option was viable for you, but you were given choices.

And option D) Do nothing (or buy a phone off EBAY) and keep unlimited data

Indeed. English must be a second language.

 

[droidbionicmaster]

Every time I call Verizon about my account they always say I have an upgrade and are liken
would you like to use it blah blah blah I say no my data is all over the place they say let see what u use and they stay silent and say yea you are all over the place 20 gig here 15 another month. So once my time comes I'll pay full price

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[SquireSCA]

I work for verizon business. they would open the door for many lawsuits if they do this. people have paid full price to keep unlimited data. it would be stealing money from us by stopping unlimited data. between lawsuits and lost customers it would be suicide for verizon wireless.
I would go with sprints grandfathered unlimited plan then move my number and then disco big red. remember dont disconnect until you get a phone from sprint and have sprint port your nbr from vz. otherwise you will lose your nbr. after porting sprint has your vz line disconnected. now you have your number and unlimited data.

bye verizon

No they aren't. They are paying lower rates for more data than the rest of pay for and get. And in that contract, it says that they reserve the right to change that contract any time they want.

This day was coming. And it will happen. People hanging on to Unlimited for $30 wasn't going to last forever and we all knew it.

The only way to get Unlimited will be with SPrint, but their network sucks.

 

[cobravnm13]

Who has AT&T made give-up their unlimited data?

AT&T switched my girlfriend to 2GB from unlimited because they said she was tethering. She wasn't.

And that was in the middle of a 2 year contract.

 

[SquireSCA]

AT&T switched my girlfriend to 2GB from unlimited because they said she was tethering. She wasn't.

And that was in the middle of a 2 year contract.

How much data was she using? Whether she was tethering or not, they typically don't just make those changes without some sort of reason. Was she using like 15GB a month or something?

 

[EyeOWA]

Same here, English must be a second language? Forced from the thesaurus: adjectiveDefinition:*compulsory, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, woodenSent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2

They did not induce this...It was all your doing. YOU chose the consequences. If you did not like the terms you could have denied, thus negating you being "forced" away. You are slamming others for not knowing English, yest you are not listening to what they are saying.

 

[cobravnm13]

How much data was she using? Whether she was tethering or not, they typically don't just make those changes without some sort of reason. Was she using like 15GB a month or something?

Nope. It was 2 to 4GB a month at most.