i have been with verizion 12 years and they told me that unlimited data plans are history,i have 5 phones on the family plan.i was grand fathered in then they changed it on me.if thats true today i'm calling them.Today
Uh ...wow; sorry for the interruption but I just talked to them a few weeks ago when I got this Razr HD. The only refurbished they had in stock were iPhones, and I TOLD them I'm not used to jailbreaking (because really, IDGAS anymore: we have all these plans w/ VZW, including max Mifi ($80/month) and they make a KILLING off us) and I told him I needed a phone I could "use". (I didn't say it, but the tech knew wtf I was talking about). I did say I take the VZW crap off, so he knows I root. They're MY phones since we pay bank for them (no subsidies). He knew exactly what I was looking for and told me to check out mobilekarma.com because they have "unlocked phones".
Only mobilekarma sent me this "great" condition Razr HD and it HAD been unlocked/rooted (I could tell because of the CWM directories they didn't clean out), but the phone was locked. It's useful for my purposes, if you get my drift, but I TOLD that guy, if I'm ever not grandfathered, after all we pay out of pocket for phones, bye bye verizon. He said we'd be grandfathered for life as long as we kept doing it like we are (no new contracts).
Ofc I don't believe crap like that because I wouldn't swear VZW would even last longer than me, much less the kids, but that was two weeks ago. People ASK why we don't do ST and why we pay this premium for VZW when ST uses VZW anyway (in my area), and it's getting harder and harder to answer, but that $20/month "home line" service is sweet, and VZW usually gives us excellent customer care.
This would make me SO MAD
(to have paid cash for all these phones all these years and then lose grandfathered plans). I know we have no contract with them, but it's the principle. Dammit. AARGH!
(Um, yeah here people use their VZW phones on ST for tethering. But I think it's like someone said above: don't get caught or your service could be cut off without warning — that's kept us with VZW. But I'd just gauge our data usage better IF we had to switch to ST; I'm not
scared of switching if push came to shove.)
