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My contract with Verizon ends on May 16th. Does Verizon generally offer great deals on phones for me to re-up my contract? Or could I receive additional minutes for the same price that I am paying now?
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When you have completed 10 of a 12 month contract or 22 of a 24 month contract you are eligible for an equipment upgrade.
What Verizon will offer is up to them, Radioshack will offer new equipment at the new customer price for a 1 or 2 year agreement.
You are able to keep your old plan or change to a new plan. The in network plans make changing plans much more attractive.
What Verizon will offer is up to them, Radioshack will offer new equipment at the new customer price for a 1 or 2 year agreement.
You are able to keep your old plan or change to a new plan. The in network plans make changing plans much more attractive.
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SPCSVZWJeff said:
When you have completed 10 of a 12 month contract or 22 of a 24 month contract you are eligible for an equipment upgrade.
What Verizon will offer is up to them, Radioshack will offer new equipment at the new customer price for a 1 or 2 year agreement.
You are able to keep your old plan or change to a new plan. The in network plans make changing plans much more attractive.
True dat. I would recommend, however, that you review the curent features of your calling plan and check for such things as off-peak start times, coverage, etc.
The new plans are awfully nice...
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Biggs is right... (yes I said that too 🤭 ) Reveiw what you have and if you're keeping it for the right reasons. If you have after 8 pm calling times (plans prior to 10/14/02 for the West Area, or 7 if you're prior to 08/2001 for the West Area) check to see how often you actually USE that feature. Then take a look at your peak minutes too and if you are always over, or under or just right. If you're on an old 5 state plan, and just keeping it for the 7-7 calling, but using 1000 min on a 250/1000 n/w plan, um, getcha head checked. New plans would be more beneficial. Also... if you are on an older plan that is "grandfathered" you can move up or down within that FAMILY of plans. I.e. same mob 2 mob, n/w allowence etc without 1. exte...
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😡 As far as I know when your contract is up, all that Verizon is going to offer you is $100.00 off the retail price on a new phone. But trust me, I work in the wireless industry, and that is not a good discount. If you compare that to what you pay Verizon every month, you will notice that they are ripping you off. . After all, the phone is going to cost you a lot more than if you were a new customer. Verizon is not worth it. 😢
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your knowledge is is not very far indeed. the new for two program you are refering to does give you a 100.00 discount off the lowest price ( two yr discount) so many of our phones will be free ( you do have to pay the tax of course)we have curently 7 phones that would be free (excluding tax).
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I was mentioning that I have seen some Retention offers that we can not even come close to offering. That was my whole point of my post.
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😁 From my past experiences, if the customer called Verizon Wireless and asks for their "RETENTION" Department, then Retention will offer them Free Equipment, or even major discounts on rate plans. I work in the Verizon Industry, and I have seen some deals from Retention, that I can not even come close to offering both rate plan & Phone wise.
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Forget Verizon. T-Mobile offers a better selection of phones, and better customer service, with a ONE YEAR CONTRACT ONLY. T-Mobile offers the best deal possible with a 1-year contract, every other carrier tries to stick you with a 2-year contract for a "better deal." I think the better deal is your ability to choose your wireless carrier without having to sign your life away. Who knows where you'll be one year from now, let alone TWO.
P.S. You can port your number to T-Mobile too, at no charge.
P.S. You can port your number to T-Mobile too, at no charge.
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😁 That's true. Besides T-Mobile now offers rebates on their upgrades, which are worth much more than the $100.00 discount offered by Verizon.
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Well, all rebates also apply to VZW customers who are new every eligible. A VZW customer who is taking advantage of the New Every Two program gets the phone of their choice for the lowest advertised price (including rebates) plus they get up to $100.00 off that price. So take the Audiovox 8900 for example. Right now with a two year contract is selling for $169.99 before a $70.00 mail in rebate. The customer using there new every, gets $99.99 taken off of the price of the phone at POS, leaving them to pay $70.00 for the phone, but they also get the $70.00 mail in rebate, making the phone free. Right now there are only two phones (the Samsung a610 and the Samsung a530) that a New Every Two customer would not get for free after the mail in...
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Is this something that is only offered through that retention department?
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No this is standard VZW policy although you will not be able to get it from a Agent/Dealer. You must go to a VZW owned store to get the NE2 credit.
The policy is that if you sing a 2 year contract that has an access fee of $34.99 a month or higher at the end of that two year contract you are eligible for a credit up to $100 off the purchase of your next phone when signing another two year contract.
The policy is that if you sing a 2 year contract that has an access fee of $34.99 a month or higher at the end of that two year contract you are eligible for a credit up to $100 off the purchase of your next phone when signing another two year contract.
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moviespaz said:
Forget Verizon. T-Mobile offers a better selection of phones, and better customer service, with a ONE YEAR CONTRACT ONLY. T-Mobile offers the best deal possible with a 1-year contract, every other carrier tries to stick you with a 2-year contract for a "better deal." I think the better deal is your ability to choose your wireless carrier without having to sign your life away. Who knows where you'll be one year from now, let alone TWO.
P.S. You can port your number to T-Mobile too, at no charge.
It's just too bad that t-mo's coverage is the smallest of any national carrier, and their phone's don't have analog, and their cust service is always rated really low(makes SPCS look good), and t...
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Have you ever actually used T-Mobile? I sell both Verizon and T-Mobile, and I use phones from both of them, and T-Mobile's coverage is actually quite good. They just don't get into any rural areas. If you need highway corridor and population center coverage they are excellent, and the signal quality has been much better in my experience than Verizon's. A recent J.D. Power survey revealed that T-Mobile actually had the best coverage in terms of signal quality in several major markets. I have also found their Customer Care reps to be very helpful and friendly. Finally, T-Mobile is a GSM carrier, and their phones don't have ESN numbers. The serial numbers are referred to as IMEI numbers, and those are useless for trying to clone, because...
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all things stated in my post is based on personal experiance or reliable information from other t-mo cust. (i.e. family members). and I hate to break to ya but you can clone a t-mo phone by intercepting the phones signal when the phone is powered on, no contatct with user is required. as far as coverage none of t-mo's phones worked @ my house and I live in the mpls metro area.
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That's strange... I was in Minneapolis in February with both my T-Mobile and Verizon phones and was actually surprised to see that I usually had a better signal with the T-Mobile phone. Once again, I use and sell both companies, so I don't have a bone to pick with either of them. I just think that T-Mobile gets dissed unfairly most of the time. By the way, their company and its representatives have been a pleasure to work with. I haven't had as good of experiences with Verizon's people, but I guess that doesn't really matter to the average consumer.
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JDigital said:
That's strange... I was in Minneapolis in February with both my T-Mobile and Verizon phones and was actually surprised to see that I usually had a better signal with the T-Mobile phone.
Did you stop to contemplate that maybe you were possibly closer to a Tmobile tower?
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I'm actually not a moron, but thanks for the vote of confidence. I got a stronger signal in many different places around the Twin Cities area with T-Mobile, although the Verizon phone did much better inside the Mall of America... no surprise there. I also got a lot better signal from T-Mobile at O'Hare in Chicago, but in that case it was just the airport and I didn't take it around town.
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it is extremely difficult to clone a digital phone signal.. 99% of phone call cloning is from analog signals, or roaming..
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ruf-jason said:...moviespaz said:
Forget Verizon. T-Mobile offers a better selection of phones, and better customer service, with a ONE YEAR CONTRACT ONLY. T-Mobile offers the best deal possible with a 1-year contract, every other carrier tries to stick you with a 2-year contract for a "better deal." I think the better deal is your ability to choose your wireless carrier without having to sign your life away. Who knows where you'll be one year from now, let alone TWO.
P.S. You can port your number to T-Mobile too, at no charge.
It's just too bad that t-mo's coverage is the smallest of any national carrier, and their phone's don't have analog, and their cust service is always rated rea
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😕 Hmmmm...According to JD Power & Associates, T-Mobile was rated #1 in Overall Customer Satisfaction for 2003...Not to mention that just because T-Mobile doesn't have their own towers in every state, doesn't mean they don't have fantastic coverage. ALL but one of T-Mobile's rate plans are NATIONWIDE at NO extra cost, which means even if you're roaming on another carrier's towers ANYWHERE in the US, you will NOT be charged any additional fees. Not to mention more minutes for your money, better deals on features, and, oh yeah, ONLY A 1 YEAR CONTRACT. Do a little better research the next time you're ready to bash a company. 😁
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