arstechnica.com — Verizon is making no secret of its attempt to raise revenues and get more "lower-end customers" hooked on data. That's why the company has revamped its device lineup and data offerings, which secretly means raising prices.
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stevensj2Jan 16, 2010
So you whine about whiners in an attempt to show them that whining is bad?Interesting...
tukaJan 16, 2010
Its the illusion of choice, like below...Forced Assrape - $9.99Forced Gang Assrape - $19.99No Forced Assrape - $29.99Most people, will chose the $29.99 plan, and its touted as PROOF!, that the free market will chose to not get raped almost every time (while getting raped). No more regulations k thx bye.*all rape is forced, i put the word "forced" in there cause some f'd up digger would find a loophole in the poophole.
Closed AccountJan 16, 2010
You know I've watched people bash AT&T, and yes they have issues with some areas in regards to service quality, but I think the iPhone both in qty sold and use of the web/data, really caught them off guard. I have never had an issue with their pricing and they have never low-balled service pricing then tried to push crap off on me like v-cast nor have they crippled phones to get you to buy what should be unneeded sync services. I was with Verizon and they took every opportunity to nickel and dime you. What you thought you got wasn't included etc., they are truly the devil and want a piece of the action and every transaction. They force their UI and software onto devices etc., no thanks, I'll suffer a few dropped calls, they can go to hell.
mayet091Jan 16, 2010
I ended up in a fight with my Verizon customer service rep the other day because he insisted that my LG Envy Touch required a data plan. It DID NOT require one when I bought it and I have had it for over 6 months without one. I had to sign up for a month because I went out of town and needed to check my email. When I returned home, I called and asked to take the data plan back off and he tried to tell me that my phone always required a data plan. He had nothing to say when he realized that my account had not had a data plan up to that point and said that they had done so "in error." I said fine, then I want a different phone, because I wouldn't have gotten mine if it required a data plan. He took it back off with dire threats of high data charges if I so much as touched my internet function.Verizon can kiss my ass. They are now trying to weasel the $$ out of customers and see if they just don't catch it.
heresy_fnordJan 16, 2010
There is no roaming on sprint. At least not with any of the unlimited plans.
youareretardedJan 17, 2010
And you are still wrong. There is no freaken cap on smart phones or feature phones! Only tethered and data card plans have a 5GB cap.Read the TOS and you will see that they separate data cards/tethering from other devices.
bradleylandJan 17, 2010
@GeneralObviousThe cap is a "soft cap", which means that they don't have any mechanism in place to automatically enforce the cap. The 5 GB cap exists, and is stated in their policy, which they will enforce at will.What you've presented is an anecdote. It's a single point of data in a sea of examples. You're being dugg down because you're asserting your example as empirical proof that the 5 GB cap doesn't exist. The only thing you've proved is that you haven't been caught.
wshsJan 19, 2010
AT&T has always went bankrupt and bought by another former ma bell company, then renamed back to AT&T. So, Verizon isn't going to have a monopoly, AT&T is.