User: Foneteck
These are the most recent forum messages posted by Foneteck:
I've solved the whole problem!
Propose a law that would require politicians to take aptitude and IQ tests before they are allowed to run for office.
Bye Bye Verizon!
So I was going to buy a Droid, my contract with Verizon is over and I thought, OK take advantage of new every two, take out another 2 year contract and get the discount on the Droid, then they decided to put the new $350 fee into effect. That's when I decided what I have been thinking of doing anyway, and that is getting the Iphone and going with AT&T. Their network is not bad in ...
Re: EXPENSIVE!
I did take into consideration the running of the company, buying of equipment so forth and so on, I have worked in the cell phone industry for too many years than I want to remember. What you didn't take into consideration is the compensation of the higher ups which is way beyond what it should be. The CEO's who take the ideas of the underlings and claim them to be their own, are paid way more than they ...
EXPENSIVE!
The actual cost to these cell phone providers to provide voice and data services are very low. They are charging 2000 to 3000% of actual cost. Now I believe in companies making profits, but not obscene money. VZW could offer a unlimited voice, texting, data plan for $50 a month and still make a healthy profit.
Texting is the biggest money maker for them and also the biggest scam out there. It cost VZW under a ...
From The Horses Mouth
I can tell you right now, Verizon is kicking it'self in the butt for turning down the Iphone as it did. They (we) have lost more customers to AT&T and continue to do so because of it and maybe I shouldn't even go into work the day the 3GS comes out, When a customer discontinue's service with us we ask why and one of the question we ask is about the Iphone and is that why ...
Re: Too much money
You hit the nail right on the head. We have three large Verizon stores all owned and operated by Verizon. One is in a mall and has the worst employees ever and a huge turn over. The second is just across the street and is a super store, want to talk about snobs, the worst and again the employee entrance has a revolving door. The third store located in Lakewood N.J, has the best employees ...
Get Rid of Your Discover Card.
Discover card is one of the worst credit cards you can have. They are predatory company but that's not the worst problem. Discover card uses what's called two cycle billing which will become illegal in 2010. Discover won't even admit they use two cycle billing anymore, they have coined a new term for it. So of coarse they are going to make it easier to use by offering a mobile management program, the more ...
Re: YOU HAVE TO WONDER
Your wrong, Verizon views any other company as competition no matter how small or large, no matter how big or small their customer base is. Believe it or not, Sprints $99 everything plan has made a small but noticeable dent into Verizons customers that have Windows 5/6 mobile style phones. Sprint knows it too, they have seen many people that can afford the jump, do so. The $99 dollar offer was supposed to have ended months ...
YOU HAVE TO WONDER
As Verizon eats up independent carries, what's going to be left to provide competition for them? Wait, I'm looking into my crystal ball, it's becoming clear, wait! I see the future, Verizon gobbles up Sprint! Mission Accomplished.
How About This?
That the cell phone manufacturers include digital AM and FM AND the ability to receive HDTV over the air. Now that bring telephony into the new century! You know that Verizon and others that are planning TV by subscription on their phones, would never carry a handset that received free HDTV signals.
Re: YOU CAN BET.......
Airphone went out of business. Believe me I have worked in the telephone industry for over thirty years, between the shenanigans that Congress pulls and the crap the FCC does, there is always an ulterior motive to what is done or what is approved and it's usually predicated by a large corporation throwing Benjamins around.
Re: If in-flight calling is outlawed...
Have you ever noticed that people on cell phones talk louder than people using regular wired telephones. There is a reason for this, it's called SIDE TONE. Without getting real technical, side tone is the ability of the person on the phone he or she is using to hear themselves talk. In the early days of telephony people shouted on phones all the time, it was discovered if a person could hear himself as he spoke, ...
YOU CAN BET.......
There is money behind the decision. Somewhere somebody on Capitol Hill is getting some big bucks to stop the use of cell phones on planes. The reason? Some company with big money and a big plan to install and run their own phone system on airliners! Watch, they will wait a while after the law is enacted and then bingo an announcement will be made about a new cell type service for airline passengers will be ...
Verizons Not Cool Either!
When Sprint offered the $99 everything plan, I decided to call my provider which is Verizon, I wanted to see how much it would cost to get out of my contract with them.
I called Verizon and asked the rep how much it would cost to get out of my contract, he looked at my service and then quoted $179. I told him that was impossible because Verizon was pro-rating the contracts, he became nasty. I asked him ...
Re: Get out of contract for free??
It's very simple really, but hard to implement because people are idiots. Basically all you have to do to get the texting rates down, is to simply call the provider, cancel the service and don't text. If enough people did it, the price would be lowered.
Texting costs providers practically nothing to provide. I once read in a Verizon memo that it costs the company something like a penny to transmit the message if that. There ...
OK Verizon Time To Step Up or Lose Me To Sprint.
After reading the following article, I'm ready to deep six Verizon. Get the unlock code for my phone and be done with VZ. The following is an article on Sprint $99 Everything Plan.
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Here is some inside scoop boys on the what exactly you hard earned $99 bucks gets you...and yes I am on the inside.
The simply unlimited plan includes:
* Voice
* Text
* Picture and Video Messaging
* Nextel Direct Connect and Group Connect
* Data services
o E-mail
o Web surfing
o GPS Navigation
o ...
The Skinny On The $99 Plan
The following was posted by a Sprint Service Rep on another blog. After reading it, you can bet I'm finding out how much it will take to get out of my Verizon Account. The same offer from VZ would cost me $149 which includeds my insurance. Read on.
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Here is some inside scoop boys on the what exactly you hard earned $99 bucks gets you...and yes I am on the inside.
The simply unlimited plan includes:
* Voice
* Text
* Picture and ...
THIS IS GOOD NEWS? NOT REALLY
I called my Verizon rep, in my local newspaper they had said that the voice and data network was "unlimited". So I thought what a deal! That was until I talked with Verizon. First the deal is $99 for unlimited talk, but the data is that crappy Web 2.0 thing and limited. If you own a Pocket PC like I do, this plan is not for you. In fact if you want unlimited voice, ...
Re: I signed up for this weeks ago.
They finally release the program yesterday, all of us that had signed up for it were supposed to get a message and link to the download. I didn't get one. Now what?
I signed up for this weeks ago.
I signed up for this new browswer weeks ago, have not heard one word from the company and by the way the site was worded, sounded like they were ready to release the Windows Mobile platform ASAP. Now I'm wondering if it's all a big hoax just to get our cell phone numbers.
Re: Bets on the Verizon 6800
I have been with Verizon for years but decided to try the Iphone, I kept my Verizon account while I tried out the Iphone, which turned out to be a POS. So I took it back and purchased the 6700 which I really like, but the guy at Verizon told me the 6800 would be out within a month of my purchase and I could just take the 6700 back and get the 6800, well that was in the ...
Re: My Condolences
An addition to my comments, Apple announced today that all Iphone owners will be refunded a $100. Well how nice until you find out that the hundred bucks will be an Apple coupon, so instead of cash, you get Apple funny money. It just gets worse people.
My Condolences
Too all of you that bought the Iphone for $699. Apple really f'd people over big time. I had bought but took back the phone after I realized all the short comings of the phone. I could have easily been one of you!
If I were still an owner of this phone, I would be calling Steve Jobs offices, writing emails demanding a two hundred dollar refund ASAP!
I'm not being glib, I truly feel bad for everyone out ...
Re: iPhone defect. failing touchscreen.
That fact that after the initial offering of Iphone, the product went way down hill after those couple of days. Funny thing was, there were not too many people even playing these games trying to win the phone. That alone tells me a lot, The word is out there. The phone sucks.
You have no clue how bad this tech head wanted that phone! Like I said I never buy first generation of anything. I'm ...
Re: iPhone defect. failing touchscreen.
I don't know if you saw my other post, it has to do with the descepancy with the amount of Iphones sold in relation to the amount that have been activated.
This past weekend I went to a lot of Boardwalks in the NJ area, all of them have arcades with games and all of them had Iphones as prizes, tons of them. There was one place that had fifty of them behind the counter, which made me wonder ...
Re: iPhone defect. failing touchscreen.
Very good, glad to see they are going to stand behind the product. I'm sure more glitches are going to rear their ugly heads with the Iphone in the next couple of months, I did something I never do, and that is buy first generation anything, but I went against my rule and purchased the Iphone, it went back in forty eight hours, while a very nice Ipod I found the phone part lacking. So I hope to ...
Re: ARE YOU JOKING ME?
I was hoping that what they do in England they would institute here, and that is, yep you can sue, but if you loose the case, you pay for all the expenses of the person you sued. Believe me people in England only sue over really bad stuff. It will never happen here because most of the politicians are lawyers and would never let that happen.
Re: iPhone Urban Legends
I heard if your female and lick the screen you get pregnant.
Re: iPhone Text Messaging
Did you ever see that commercial on TV for an insurance company where people are doing all sorts of things while driving? One guy is changing his pants and everytime I saw that I would think to myself that never happens.....
well a guy I was driving next to I guess was heading for the Shore, he actually got out of his long pants and put on shorts as he was driving, get this, he was in a convertable!!!! ...
Re: ARE YOU JOKING ME?
Hey did you ever read the court case where a guy who was robbing a store, fell through the stores skylight while trying to rob the store and injured himself.
Well he sued the store and won! Of coarse this case was in California. Then there's the woman who sued McDonalds because she didn't know her coffee would be hot and put the cup between her legs, the cover came off and she burned her, well she got burned, she ...
Re: Prada/KS20 KILLS iPhone
Good question, I decided to buy and Iphone and what a dissapointment that was! I can tell you their touchscreen can't be beat neither can the display, but after that it's all downhill from there.
The speaker phone can be used in places such as churches, a viewing at a funeral home or a library other than that it's volume is useless in anything much noisier than the above. Actually using the earpiece is much the same, just ...
Re: Sorry iPhone Buyers!!!! Prada on the way!!!!
I have loved LG phones and have had them for a very long time, I hope LG doesn't release this phone in the US with the Prada name, I think it cheapens the product.
Re: iPhone defect. failing touchscreen.
I was going to suggest removing the battery and then I rememberd, OOOPS you can't do that. I can't see why you can't take it back to the store, if it's defective then it's defective and they should stand behind their product. Isn't it a fact that the thirty days is just if you want to return the item because you don't want it? I do not think it's the life of the warantee, God I ...
Re: Ifound the Iphones
UPDATE: Today I went to two malls, both had Cingular and ATT stores and both had Iphones, At one of the stores one of my friends friend works there, I asked him how the Iphones were selling, he said they weren't after the initial run on them, he said he couldn't give them away if he wanted to and had more than forty in stock.
At the second store it took me a little longer to get the story ...
Re: Prada/KS20 KILLS iPhone
Hmmm, here is the reason I will never buy a PRADA. THE NAME. When a company uses a copyrighted name they have to pay royalties to that company, so you have to figure part of the price of that phone is going to be the royalty payment for using the name.
To those that can't figure out what I'm saying take this analogy. You go to a clothing store and sitting there are two ordinary T-Shirts, one is ...
Re: Ifound the Iphones
Well I found some of the missing Iphones and I can't believe where! This past weekend our family decided to hit all the major boardwalks at the Jersey Shore. Just about every arcade at each boardwalk had Iphones as prizes.
So then I wondered how many of these phones are at arcades at boardwalks, Six Flags, and other venues where they offer prizes, this might partialy explain why the sales figures and the activation figures are so far apart.
But ...
Re: iPhone sales reported to be a dissapointment
I read in Yahoo News that there is a conflict between what Apple says about the amount of units sold and the amount of units reported activated by ATT. The difference is huge!
People who bought the phone to sell on Ebay couldn't give them away and I hope every single idiot that did that got stuck with them!
As for myself I took the phone back and cancelled the service. I still had my Verizon account and decided ...
Re: No sound - third time
This fix makes total sense. But as he said, spray only the plug, makes sure it's not dripping and then insert the plug into the jack. If it's dripping you can cause a problem you don't want. I myself would not use WD40 but I would obtain the following
Radio Shack Control/Contact Cleaner & Lubricant.
Part #64-4315, it's around $8 or $9 bucks and is worth having around the house for all types of contact and control button ...
Re: I have never seen so many user non- reviews from non users!
Day one I went on Ebay to see how many fools listed a phone. Surprise there wasn't that many and the asking prices were insane! I hope everyone of those idiots got stuck with the phone or phones. They deserve it. BTW I stopped using Ebay for anything. Why?
People are setting up phony accounts and bidding against their own items up for sale or they are having their friends bid driving up the prices. That's ...
Re: Fear tactics
I was telling my neighbor about Sprints actions, he wants out of his Sprint contract, I think he started calling customer service last night, said he was going to put them on speed dial. I think Sprint opened a can of worms worst that they had.
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