What's up with the data plan? Not only is it overwhelmingly over priced, for those who can't afford unlimited because of the new price hikes, running out of data seems to be more punitive than anything. Almost as if Verizon is forcing its customers to buy the more expensive packages.
For Instance:
When i was using Straight Talk I got fairly decent LTE speeds, but once you hit your data cap, the speed was limited. The limitations however, would still yield basic search requests (like directions) fairly well.
When Verizon drops you to lower speeds you cant pull up ANYTHING. Most of the time the response is "no connection, slow connection, or connection lost."
Why is it that come service can provide me with faster, less-than-LTE speed than Verizon? Seems a bit mind boggling. Everyone thought at first when Verizon offered Unlimited for $110 was a pretty good deal. Now its just ridiculous. Verizon as company basically corners that market and their customers get nailed for it. If you're like me an my family we've been stupid enough to finance a phone through you so it doesn't make much sense to drop you considering we have phones to pay off and they'll just be sitting around getting no use. [removed] Bad play on Verizon to jack prices up like this. People shouldn't be paying almost $200 for cell phone bills before they even get to line access and using their phones.
FIX IT.
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I pay nowhere near that amount....
You pay for what you choose. Verizon doesn't choose a plan, phone, or features for you and they also don't tell you what phone you HAVE to have..... These are all choices you make along with the amount of data YOU choose to use. It works this way no matter the service provider.
It is generally up to you what you and your family choose to consume, and if you are paying too much because the consumption is too high then lower the amount of services you have chosen to use. This might mean not watching Youtube videos on your phone while waiting for the bus, or opting to not surf social media for an hour after work, or might even mean not choosing to finance that new Iphone X the day it came out.
Pick a lower allowance-based plan and don't use as much data if it's too expensive. The same goes with everything in life. Pick what you can afford and if you can't afford what you want, then make some changes.
Verizon didn't "jack up prices". You increased your consumption.....
First and foremost, inreally appreciate that you assume I’m an idiot and have no clue how data consumption works. That’s good stuff.
byt yes they did home their prices. What was the price of unlimited when they rolled it out in 2017? $110. There was 1 unlimited plan. Their current price for the basic unlim plan is now $150. Hmmm oddly enough that sure seems like an increase in price. Oh wait, thats a $40 increase. Their super duper package starts at $170. Now that’s a hike of $60. Crazy how that works. Then all craziness happens if you’ve used a certain amount of your “unlimited” data which is really a term that means unmetered because if you exceed a certain amount of data on a congested tower, guess what happens to your service? Oh that’s right it gets deprioritized.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/595720001
Let’s get back to pricing. Ugh.
Verizon‘s 8 gig plan one year ago... oh wait wasn’t there. You had 6 and 12 gigs. 6 was $60 a month, 12 was $80 a month. I liked the 12 it was well suited to my needs considering My family used right at 10.5 - 11 gigs a month, because we know what Wifi is. Now let’s look at the 8 gig now, which, $110 a month? Not a price jump? But they will make you a killer deal by dropping that to 96 a month if you use automatic payments. So you end up paying between $16 and $30 more a month for 4 gigs less data than offered a year ago.
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Wanna know what’s really gnarley? My family used right around 12 gigs last month. Crazy!!! No price hikes? My consumption went up marginally. But hey I just don’t know what I’m talking about. Thanks for being the keyboard warrior that had to correct my poor spending habits. I’m so very appreciative.
Cheers.
Salty_Dgo0217 wrote:
What's up with the data plan? Not only is it overwhelmingly over priced, for those who can't afford unlimited because of the new price hikes, running out of data seems to be more punitive than anything. Almost as if Verizon is forcing its customers to buy the more expensive packages.
For Instance:
When i was using Straight Talk I got fairly decent LTE speeds, but once you hit your data cap, the speed was limited. The limitations however, would still yield basic search requests (like directions) fairly well.
When Verizon drops you to lower speeds you cant pull up ANYTHING. Most of the time the response is "no connection, slow connection, or connection lost."
Why is it that come service can provide me with faster, less-than-LTE speed than Verizon? Seems a bit mind boggling. Everyone thought at first when Verizon offered Unlimited for $110 was a pretty good deal. Now its just ridiculous. Verizon as company basically corners that market and their customers get nailed for it. If you're like me an my family we've been stupid enough to finance a phone through you so it doesn't make much sense to drop you considering we have phones to pay off and they'll just be sitting around getting no use. [removed] Bad play on Verizon to jack prices up like this. People shouldn't be paying almost $200 for cell phone bills before they even get to line access and using their phones.
FIX IT.
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A) The $110( $100 if you had auto pay and paperless ) was for MULTI-line plans plus $20 per line. The single line plan was $85 total( includes line fee ) or $80 with autopay. This plan is no longer offered
B) You have 2 choice for unlimited Go or Beyond. We have 3 lines on Go pay $150. taxes and fees total $13.
C) If you don't like Verizon pricing there is at&t, t-mobile or Sprint.
Salty_Dgo0217 wrote:
Verizon‘s 8 gig plan one year ago... oh wait wasn’t there. You had 6 and 12 gigs. 6 was $60 a month, 12 was $80 a month. I liked the 12 it was well suited to my needs considering My family used right at 10.5 - 11 gigs a month, because we know what Wifi is. Now let’s look at the 8 gig now, which, $110 a month? Not a price jump? But they will make you a killer deal by dropping that to 96 a month if you use automatic payments. So you end up paying between $16 and $30 more a month for 4 gigs less data than offered a year ago.
$8 gig is $70 what are you talking about?
I’m talking about the pricing I get right now through Verizon. When I go to my Verizon through the app it quotes me at $110 for 2 lines. Why so much difference between one line or two? It should be a flat rate. I all for saying “hey one device shouldn’t pay that much,” but why charge more for more lines on a set amount of data? It makes sense for unlimited, but not for a data tier less than unlimited.
The Verizon plan for 8 GB is $70 for data and $20 for each line for $110 for 2 lines. 6 GB was $60 plus $20 per line for 2lines is $100. 12 GB was $80 for data then $20 per line for $120 for 2 lines
T-Mobile advertises unlimited for $80, Verizon matches it with Go Unlimited and Beyond is $10 more. Carrier prices aren't as dramatic as people make them out to be with social media.
I pay for the 2GB plan since I have WiFi everywhere and that is $35 for the plan before discounts and $20 per line. Three lines puts base service at $95 with the rest being device payments - something that'd be the same regardless of carrier.
Service cost money, you can't expect a nice cut of steak for the same price of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
glitchedpixel wrote:
T-Mobile advertises unlimited for $80, Verizon matches it with Go Unlimited and Beyond is $10 more. Carrier prices aren't as dramatic as people make them out to be with social media.
I pay for the 2GB plan since I have WiFi everywhere and that is $35 for the plan before discounts and $20 per line. Three lines puts base service at $95 with the rest being device payments - something that'd be the same regardless of carrier.
Service cost money, you can't expect a nice cut of steak for the same price of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
for the record T-Mobile's One plan is $70 ( for 1 line )which includes taxes fees. Go is $75 PLUS taxes/fees. One plus is $80 taxes/fees includes. Beyond is $85 plus taxes. And while Beyond has 15 GB hotspot and One Plus only 10 GB their deprioritization level is 50 GB for BOTH plans vs 0 GB for Go and 22 GB for Beyond. Also video is 1080p for beyond vs 720p for Beyond.
All that being said in my areas( like mine ) t-mobile's network is meh at best.
My beef about Verizon plans is that t-mobile upped their deprioritization level 2-3 GB every 3 months from 22 GB-36 GB until last fall when they upped it from 36 GB to 50 GB. Unlimited has been around for over 15 months and it's still 22 GB. If Verizon wants to say how it's network is the best and is so superior I find it odd they can't up the levels even ONCE in 16 months. It should be 35 GB by now. And of course it's zero for Go and their hotspot throttle is barely better than T-Mobile and their 15 GB cap on Beyond is barely better than t-mobile and their video throttling is worse than t-mobile. That doesn't scream out "superior" network to me.
yes Verizon has better coverage for now. A si said while T-Mobile's coverage is meh now. they recent got permission to move 2 tv station early and one will be moved by June 1st the other one August 1st. So very shortly they can deploy the 15X15 600 MHz they have in my area. At that point they will be pretty much equal to Verizon and I'd have to decide if paying extra to Verizon for what will then be equal coverage but worse features Is worth it. And I live in a rural area. I can see within the next year Verizon having another Q1 2016 again except it won't be just one quarter unless Verizon decides to actually start competing on features and/or price.
That makes more sense. Thank you for being constructive.
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