Verizon Planning to Use Wi-Fi to Supplement 3G, 4G
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I don't think it has anything to do with network problems. I think its the fact that other carriers have gone to tiered data for the simple fact they cant afford the extensive use customers impose on a network. So why not play follow the leader and cut unlimited data, so that the average joe will hopefully go over their alloted allowance and have to pay overage charges.
That is just so ignorant.....companies don't like to charge overages beause overage charges leads to decreased customer satisfaction which leads to churn which leads to the company going bankrupt.
And no one actually PAYS overage charges anyway, 90% of the time they are waived.
The purpose of overage charges is to incentive people to voluntarily decrease their usage so as to reduce the strain on the network.
T Bone said:
That is just so ignorant.....companies don't like to charge overages beause overage charges leads to decreased customer satisfaction which leads to churn which leads to the company going bankrupt.
I can assure you, as someone who had done many credits and listed to many retail directors drone on about how we're giving away too many credit (even if valid), the company sees it entirely opposite of what you claim. I've even been told by higher ups that overage charges are profit and out right to charge if the customer can't control their own usage. They could care less about churn, beyond the financial implications on the stock market. There's always someone else coming on board.
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>>> Exactly.
Good post. Calm & logical.
T Bone said:
"So why not play follow the leader and cut unlimited data, so that the average joe will hopefully go over their alloted allowance and have to pay overage charges. "
That is just so ignorant.....companies don't like to charge overages beause overage charges leads to decreased customer satisfaction which leads to churn which leads to the company going bankrupt.
Hello, this is Reality speaking. Companies don't like to charge overages? Overages are the bread and butter of the industry.
A good rule of thumb is that 200 MB on a Blackberry equals about 2 GB on an iPhone or Android phone.
Jayshmay said:
I don't know why so many people think the Iphone is so, so data intensive, it's web browser renders the same real internet that Androids browser renders.
True, but the iPhone is responsible for REALLY opening the floodgates in terms of the DESIRE for smartphones and the INTENSIVE BANDWIDTH use.
Besides, Apple wants everyone to talk about Apple and only Apple, so their product developers and their marketeers got just what they wanted: iPhone is at the top of the foodchain, hence iPhone gets all the complaints just as surely as it gets all the glory.
During the same time period, at&t activated 6.6 million iPhones
So...during the first quarter that iPhone was available for both Verizon and at&t, and customers interested in an iPhone had their choice of which network to use, 3/4 of new iPhones activated were on at&t.
So...whether you want to interpret that as meaning that iPhone customers aren't exicted about Verizon, or that Verizon customers are not excited about the iPhone, in either case, the Verizon iPhone is less popular than the at&t version.
Perhaps, as other posters have said here, Verizon customers got their fix for smartphones & touchscreens with the Android-based smartphones that VZ pushed so hard to compete with the iPhone before they (VZ) got the iPhone.
Unless a person gets burned by a product or service, they tend to stay with it because it's what they know - and what they've invested in (time to learn it, apps purchased, etc). Human inertia.
At any rate, it is clear that VZ is beginning to worry about their network being able to handle the strain of the increase in smartphones of any brand, and for sure VZ desparately wants to avoid the bad PR that ATT made for itself when their network crumbled under the iP...
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>>> Excellent point.
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