Verizon Making It Cheaper To Stay Or Go
so where is the NEW ideas??
Reasons:
1. The main point of the article... prorated ETFs. Cingular has been doing this!
2. Upgrades... On Sprint (CDMA or iDEN) you can upgrade your phone at any point of the contract as long as the handset you use has been active long enough. Once you've had your handset 12 months you get half of the new customer price, and at 24 months you get the full rebate. AND... you only have to have a minimum of a $35 dollar MRC.
3. Out of warranty swaps... Nextel created this a long time ago, and since the merger Sprint has adopted it for both sides. An even better opt...
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2. Upgrades... On Sprint (CDMA or iDEN) you can upgrade your phone at any point of the contract as long as the handset you use has been active long enough. Once you've had your handset 12 months you get half of the new customer price, and at 24 months you get the full rebate. AND... you only have to have a minimum of a $35 dollar MRC.
Verizon has had an upgrade policy in place for a very very long time, better than Sprints that's for sure
3. Out of warranty swaps... Nextel created this a long time ago, and since the merger Sprint has adopted it for both sides. An even better option for customers is signing up for the enhanced warr...
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So Verizon is taking all three of the ideas from the companies and doing them all at once when all the other companies only offer just one. And that's not good enough for you somehow? ๐คจ
Here's a Reuters to put this to bed:
Verizon's No 1 rival Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. service, and Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, all charge flat fees ranging from $150 to $200 to users who leave before their contracts end. Cingular, a venture of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., Sprint, and T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom AG, would not say if they plan to follow suit.
๐ have a good day
you have a good day as well...
They have always had an Early Upgrade (1yr) and a Full Upgrade (2yrs), however they have adjusted it to make it even more appealing.
They have always had out of warranty swaps, so I agree that this isn't a new idea, just an old one being advertised.
The new things in this article is the prorated ETF and a new upgrade policy... the out-of-warranty swap isn't new.
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Early Upgrades - Currently an early upgrade can only be performed on customers whose price plan bills over $59.99 a month, with a $20 processing fee, and on a phone that is over 1 year. (MERIT customers do not get charged the fee, they are generally on higher price plans and have no late payments or suspensions for non payment). It sounds like they are doing away with the service charge now. Not only that, contrary to other companies (ie Sprint), your getting the new customer price with all applicable mail in rebates.
ProRated ETF - Like it was said before, Cingular only pro-ra...
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Early Upgrades: The article didnt say that they were doing away with fees, AND with Sprint customers ARE ALREADY eligible for the instant new customer price including any additional mail in rebate offerings once they have had their phone for 24 months. Sprint's "early upgrade" is at 12 months and is a $75 instant rebate on the phone. And like I stated before... your plan only has to be at $34.99 to do that... AND sub lines are eligible.
Prorated-ETFs: The article also did not state that the price would stay the same and drop as time goes by. It very well may do that, but we shouldnt assume that it will. If a company is going to lose more in the end, wouldn't it make sense to charge more in the beggining phases?
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VZW_insider said:
And finally, all those services that benefit ths customer like Roll-Over and Fair and Flexible. If those programs were so great then Verizon would have already adopted something similar. The fact is, Verizon still ports more customers in from Cingular than they lose. And a majority of customers porting in never even use their roll-over minutes. Is it a cool feature, sure, but to most it's a useless feature that they never use (keep in mind i didn't say everyone, this forum seems to have the exceptions to everything).
I agree with you about Rollover, but not Fair/Flex.
With Rollover, you have to be not using all of your minutes to build up a large Rollover bucket. If you aren't the type...
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There are plenty of people who don't have a consistent usage pattern from month to month (myself included). With Rollover, when you come across one of those months you may need some extra minutes...you just knock down the ones you had left over a month before.
Rollover has saved me numerous times. I'd rather pay nothing than an extra $5 for 100 minutes I might never use.
As I said, there are plenty of consumers who don't have a consistent usage pattern each month...so who is to say that 850 minutes (what I currently have) is too high of a plan when some months I use in the 900s or perhaps even over 1000? I don't' always do that, but occasionally it happens.
The point is, I keep what I pay for and no extra money is spent whatsoever. All the minutes end up getting used at some point or another, and neither my minutes nor my money goes to waste.
RUFF1415 said:
The point is, I keep what I pay for and no extra money is spent whatsoever. All the minutes end up getting used at some point or another, and neither my minutes nor my money goes to waste.
Thats nice.. why are you typing away on here? shoudnt you be somewhere talking on the phone? ๐คฃ
What are you talking about anyway?! And no...you're not funny. ๐ณ
sencerly
RUFF1415
TheBlueCat said:
I also have a weight problem.. its cause im sitting all the time.. sitting on the pc.. and sitting on the phone talking away for hours.. thank you and good day.
TheBLueCat:
ever sence I started to use my Pc as my main gaming machine I doubt i will ever even buy a console again.. it dosnt make sence if you ask me.. right now my PC is as good as a 360
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/p_forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
๐คฃ And you think I have a weight problem without even knowing me? That's priceless.
TheBlueCat said:
its is cause you do.. peace out.. ๐คฃ ๐คฃ
Well, THAT was pretty clear and concise. ๐
P.S.- Terrible plan for paying $5 for a minute of overage...get new service or something...
Cingular DID do prorated ETF's up until Feb. of this year (they MAY still have it in some markets to this day).
Warranty swaps are nothing new to be sure.
Early upgrades are around in one form or another in almost every carrier I've dealt with.
I don't think this is VZW "playing catch-up" as you say, just grabbing a little good PR. These are some of the same things Cingular used to do when they were the #2 carrier, and now that they're #1 they've changed their policy. This is meant to help VZW gain back market share, and I'm sure that it'll work.
I don't, however, think that this is going to herald a new era in which all carriers prorate and offer easy options to get new handsets when you want them.
VZW needs all the good PR it can get (like every other cell phone company). If they can make themselves seem kinda like the little guy then they're in for some market share increases. If they combine that "little guy" reputation (even though we all know they're huge) with some really sweet and exclusive phones (anyone remember something called the RAZR?) they'll be more competition than they already are.
And for VZW fanboys I don't consider things like the Q to be the kind of sweet exclusive phones that will get them there. It's a nice device and all, but it's by no means something that an average joe would carry around.
My GF has Cingular and she drops calls in the boston area like I drop flies during a summer cookout.
Now that's out of the way.... I did like your Cingular drops calls like you drop flies at a cookout. At least that was worth reading.... classic.
Once you've had your handset 12 months you get half of the new customer price, and at 24 months you get the full rebate
Verizon is now letting you get NEW CUSTOMER PRICE AT 12 MONTHS
how is that the same?
icanbeatali said:...
I don't see anything here that isn't already done in the wireless industry. Everyone here seems to think that VZW is changing the game when they are really just catching up.
Reasons:
1. The main point of the article... prorated ETFs. Cingular has been doing this!
2. Upgrades... On Sprint (CDMA or iDEN) you can upgrade your phone at any point of the contract as long as the handset you use has been active long enough. Once you've had your handset 12 months you get half of the new customer price, and at 24 months you get the full rebate. AND... you only have to have a minimum of a $35 dollar MRC.
3. Out of warranty swaps... Nextel created this a long time ago, and since the merger Sprint has adopted
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kerwin7777 said: Verizon users can now have the BEST CALL COVERAGE,
Are we still trying to discuss reality or have we moved on to fantasy? If we are trying to stick to reality I would like to congratulate VZW on their advertising campaign. It has to be one the most effective, false perception creating, campaigns outside of politics I have ever seen.
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