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slimey

flip mode

Sep 23, 2010, 10:42 AM
i'm really considering getting a dumb phone eventually. i'm so tired of these goofy games they play with data/plans/devices. it's not worth it. tiered pricing is just as low as you get in my book. they create a false shortage like gasoline to justify all the price hikes and reasons to pull away stuff like unlimited data. whats next? tiered night and weekend minutes instead of unlimited? where are the regulations to prevent this type of consumer abuse. ooooooh thats right. there is none (corporate slaves begin your rants here...)
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bluecoyote

Sep 23, 2010, 10:44 AM
And stay on it before they implement tiered pricing.
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JeffdaBeat

Sep 23, 2010, 2:27 PM
The problem though is you will only be able to stay on there for maybe a few more years. It will come to a point where if you want to upgrade your phone, whether it be 3G or LTE, you might have to opt into a new data plan. The easiest thing to do is say, if you want an LTE Smartphone, you have to pick out one of these data plans...or keep your grandfathered plan, but you can't get a new phone.
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mellowlen62

Sep 23, 2010, 11:38 AM
Well, I'm not going to rant, and I don't agree with all of your post and I do understand that companies have to make money. But I am considering going back to a dumb phone myself. As much as I love Android, it has its faults and I can get much cheaper internet at home. I don't use the data on the run all that often. GPS and texting is pretty much all I want extra on a cell phone when it really comes down to it (and I don't even need the GPS actually). My life might be better without Facebook "in my face" every second of the day and I think a lot of the forced higher prices for limited data will simply convert more of a struggling population to go back to the "ring ring" phones. Just my 2 cents.
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snowbdr89

Sep 23, 2010, 12:08 PM
Haha make money? They make way more then enough money, its verizons way of sayin bend over zombies so we can well i wont say it. ๐Ÿ˜
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 12:09 PM
Yes, they make millions, but they have 90 MILLION users.

take their sales and devide it by 90 million. The profit they are making per user isn't nearly as high as what people think./
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Redrum69

Sep 23, 2010, 12:35 PM
at&t said they based their 2gb data plan off of at&t users themselves. "98% of at&t customer do not exceed 2GBof data". So I say if you want more data, start using more now and exceed 2GB, maybe it will help??
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 1:03 PM
Nope, it will just end up costing you in overage.

If enough people do it, they'll unveil a newer plan (say $50 for 6gb) or something, but they won't increase the cap of that base plan unless the cost to transmit that data drops considerably.
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snowbdr89

Sep 23, 2010, 1:58 PM
Gee im glad im not a verizon zombie with the sucka stamped on my 4head!! ๐Ÿ˜
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 2:02 PM
If you think that always supporting "cheap unlimited everyone" is fighting for the consumer, you understand nothing about economics.
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snowbdr89

Sep 23, 2010, 5:50 PM
hhmm i switched from paying out the ass with verizon and now i pay way less with sprint for unlimited everything and i dont understand economics? ๐Ÿคจ
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 5:51 PM
Read it again.
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snowbdr89

Sep 23, 2010, 6:22 PM
i did ๐Ÿ˜
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Jayshmay

Sep 23, 2010, 10:32 PM
Supposedly the cost to transmit data over WiMax & LTE is much less than traditional 3G.
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flagrantmisuse

Sep 23, 2010, 1:20 PM
forgive me for saying this but, you can bring as much common sense into this forum as you want but as they say...you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make it drink.
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 1:42 PM
Doesn't mean I have to stop trying.

I mean, what else am I going to do? ACTUALLY file my TPS reports?
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flagrantmisuse

Sep 23, 2010, 1:44 PM
hahahaha!
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mkl4466

Sep 23, 2010, 5:53 PM
Don't forget, we're putting new cover sheets on them now.
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Jayshmay

Sep 23, 2010, 10:39 PM
And "TPS" reports are. . what?
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muchdrama

Sep 23, 2010, 5:20 PM
Menno said:
Yes, they make millions, but they have 90 MILLION users.

take their sales and devide it by 90 million. The profit they are making per user isn't nearly as high as what people think./


And yet I don't care or have any pity for them.
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 5:41 PM
you don't have to have pity on them

but it's like people giving walmart a hard time for how much in profit they make.

they sell $35 worth of stuff to make $1 in profit. This is one of the thinnest profit margins in the industry.

Then compare that to a local specialty shop, and they have to sell $10 worth of stuff to make $1. (or apple where it is 3 to 1 it seems)

Profits from volume typically means a sucessful product.

When your profits come from markup, that's typically where customers are being overcharged (willingly, as with apple, or not)
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muchdrama

Sep 23, 2010, 5:52 PM
Menno said:

you don't have to have pity on them



Glad you agree.
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CellStudent

Sep 23, 2010, 11:23 PM
YOU will like tiered data pricing, because you'll get to pay less for using less. You'll get to keep your Android and not have to pay so much for it.

AT&T understands this.

Tiered pricing is good.
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Rubirosa

Sep 24, 2010, 6:40 PM
how much less $10 for that i rather keep my unlimited thank you very much. i rather have less minutes then for them to mess with my text and internet.
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 1:00 PM
It used to be that 20 minutes anytime/500 offpeak (nights only, no weekends) would set you back over $20 a month. This was less than 10 years ago on Voicestream (became Tmobile)

Fast foreward to today where, on the "expensive" carrier, for just double that ammount you get:
-450 Anytime Minutes
-UNLIMITED Verizon Mobile to Verizon Mobile (90+ million customers in Free Calls)
-Unlimited Nights and weekends

If I were still in an area where Tmobile had service, I could get plans even cheaper.

No, you can't get a phone for just $20 a month anymore (at least not from a nationwide provider) but the actual Cost of the service has dropped so much it's INSANE. If you're one of those people who just needs the phone for an emergency, you c...
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flip mode

Sep 23, 2010, 3:10 PM
i should go into that business. i'm gonna sell bandwidth but i really don't want people to use my network or their allotted data but i wanna use their money and all of it. that's all this is. SOME people come up with the most heart moving sob stories about the "strain of networks". since the beginning of time man has lied, stolen, manipulated, plotted, murdered, covered up and swindled their fellow man to justify their sicknesses of greed. this is nothing new, but it's something that never gets old thinking about.
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 3:16 PM
I can attest for the bandwidth thing. at school, a good friend of mine used 15% of the network on his own (on a 2000+ campus) because of heavy torrent usage and speeds sucked for everyone.

They redid the network so that each dorm had it's own pipe and with the exception of his dorm (he and his roommates used maybe 40% of bandwidth) our speeds went up considerably.

If anything, Unlimited data is the money grabber. Since most customers use nowhere near the break even point (the price they pay vs what they cost) it's a steal.
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flip mode

Sep 23, 2010, 3:41 PM
the only benefit for carriers to upgrade their networks is to help subs reach and exceed data caps faster. that's it
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 3:56 PM
No, one of the big things LTE will bring is the ability to truly do VOIP.

What this means is that instead of paying 40 for phone service, 20 for texting, and 30 for data when I rarely use my phone to talk (500 minutes TOTAL is all I need, maybe 100 of which is out of network)

And yes, Verizon has hinted that this is where they want to go with their plans (buying in buckets, use however you want)

This isn't possible with current tech, not even EVDO or HSPA

Faster speeds are a huge benefit as well. But I highly doubt the caps are going to remain where they are now, especially long term.

But Unlimited pricing does not make sense from a business perspective, and it rarely does from a consumer perspective unless you are in that 10...
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flip mode

Sep 23, 2010, 4:22 PM
with all due respect menno... it's bandwidth. the price should go down, not up and get MORE as we go into the future and with advancements in technology which in turn makes the transmission of data easier. nothing will justify the outlandish garbage carriers. ever since iraq got invaded and 9/11 took place and the oil companies inspired all this. for people to charge insane prices and give you way less. look around you folks, say goodbye to free air. soon someone will tether a device that monitors how much air you absorb into your bloodstream and they bill you accordingly. at first it's unlimited and then $25/month for 200ml's of air and $15 for each addition 100ml's of air you consume. when does this insanity end?
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flip mode

Sep 23, 2010, 4:23 PM
nothing will justify the outlandish garbage carriers pull.
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Menno

Sep 23, 2010, 4:40 PM
The cost is going down.

three years ago, on an unlimited plan, the most you could really pull down in a month was maybe a gig (on the then "top of the line" blackberries. Even when I had my tour just 11 months ago, I would only go through at most 500mb, and I was a heavy user then too.

Now I have a droid, and can regularly push 5+ gb of data if I really want to (no tethering, no illegal activity)

The cost has remained the same, it actually went down because now you can get unlimited data for $30 instead of $45. Speeds have increased, coverage improved (my first apartment didn't have 3g coverage until I was there for almost 4 months)

Now they have Netflix working on an app to stream feature films to your android (already there f...
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CellStudent

Sep 23, 2010, 11:30 PM
flip mode said:
look around you folks, say goodbye to free air. soon someone will tether a device that monitors how much air you absorb into your bloodstream and they bill you accordingly. at first it's unlimited and then $25/month for 200ml's of air and $15 for each addition 100ml's of air you consume.


when does this insanity end?

2 November 2010
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smittycal

Sep 24, 2010, 12:35 AM
Thank you ๐Ÿ™‚
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