Verizon Wireless Confirms Plans to Throttle Heaviest Users
Really?
People cannot expect a wireless phone industry (in the long haul), to be capable of providing the kind of consistency and reliability that a wired home service can provide.
Additionally, even companies like Comcast have a high usage clause. They don't just slow you down, they terminate your service. So let's weigh your options.
You're a new customer to the IPhone. Your choices are Verizon Wireless or AT&T.
AT&T - Reputation for dropped calls, consistency scores lower than Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile in the customer service department, and onl...
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But I have got to say "what about Sprint"?
Lowest cost to operate of the major carriers, with unlimited data and their unlimited 3G/4G hotspot for capable devices. Not to mention the LARGEST 4G footprint in North America.
As long as you are not an iPhone berkenstock wearing brain dead zombie pseudo elitist that has to have the iPhone to belong to something due to lack of intelligence or feelings on inadequacy Sprint is clearly, economically and technically the SMART choice
Sprint has 120 give or take, and Verizon has 110 (they'll have 200 by years end according to their estimates)
You'll also have to deal with coverage. While it's true sprint has extensive roaming agreements with Verizon and other carriers their phones are hardwired to ALWAYS seek a Sprint signal. This means that if there is a tower in the area, even if you can only rarely get signal, your phone will look for that tower and ignore the stronger roaming towers near by.
And let's not forget that a lot of what makes sprint cheaper (any mobile) only works when you're not roaming.
Sprint is an excellent choice for people who have sprint coverage tha...
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I have had Sprint since 97 and I've owned about every smartphone and data card that they've offered. sprint has always been cutting edge and ahead of the curve.
If I had to VZW would be my 2nd choice as CDMA is the prevailing technology in the states unfortunately they don't have a single likable handset... am I supposed to take MOTO seriously as a smartphone manufacturer when their last smartphone before the Droid series was the Q and Q9 ...
most customers don't, and this is largely sprint's fault through their botched handling of nextel and their god awful marketing department.
If they can keep with their Evo/android style ads and stop with the annoying "I'm a jerk to you, but it's ok cause I save money" commercials they're trying, people might start thinking differently.
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Marketing sells, and Sprint's marketing (with the exception of their evo commercials) sucks.
That's the problem.
Look at the way the companies advertise:
Verizon = Reliability, Nationwide coverage, cool phones.
ATT = Iphone, Nationwide coverage, "fastest broadband in america"
Sprint= "We're cheap!"
T-mobile= Value (making their plans comparable to the big two, but then mentioning the price difference) Genuinely funny ads about their 4G network.
Sprint has amazing devices, they have amazing plans, but most people still consider them an inferior carrier either because of past experiences or because of their marketing. They've spent millions ...
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1) The iPhone 5 has yet to be announced publicly and so, while educated consumers can definitely see the pattern that one will likely be released this year, there is no evidence or proof, and in todays market you don't sell a consumer on maybe. The other thing to consider is that your average customer is not going to be in a 4g area in June/July, and so will not benefit from the phone. Now, not to say advanced features wont be a benefit, but since we don't know what they are I can't argue that they'll be that much better.
2) The removal of the unlimited data plans has been forseen for a long time and is no new argument. In fact, this argument works in the benefit ...
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The cosmetic change to the iPhone 4's exterior will not thwart the grip of death, its only because of how the cdma radio had to be installed as opposed to the gsm one.
What? You're saying they moved the antenna, changed the exterior, or whatever you're saying...but you contend that change couldn't potentially affect whether or not the verizon iphone suffers from the dreaded "death grip" syndrome? whatever dude.
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