unlimited everything
so now that at&t and VZW and on thursday tmobile all have unlimited with long distance and roaming, when will us cell come out with it? i know they have unlimited local
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release unlimited national plan for 99 buckaroos or so to speak. just a little while longer
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http://www.uscc.com/uscellular/SilverStream/Pages/x_ ... »
USCC has announced they are coming out with one. But with USCC, nationwide unlimited really is not unlimited. USCC has the 50% rule, which from where I went to school, that is a limitation. For the ones that can not go to links from work, below is a copy of USCC's new release from their website.
New Products & Services
U.S. CELLULAR OFFERS $99 UNLIMITED NATIONAL CALLING PLAN TO CUSTOMERS
CHICAGO, Feb. 20, 2008 – U.S. Cellular announced the addition of a $99 unlimited national calling plan for new and existing customers to offer convenience and service to both consumer and business customers. The new national plan allows customers to make unli...
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USCC has announced they are coming out with one. But with USCC, nationwide unlimited really is not unlimited. USCC has the 50% rule, which from where I went to school, that is a limitation. For the ones that can not go to links from work, below is a copy of USCC's new release from their website.
New Products & Services
U.S. CELLULAR OFFERS $99 UNLIMITED NATIONAL CALLING PLAN TO CUSTOMERS
CHICAGO, Feb. 20, 2008 – U.S. Cellular announced the addition of a $99 unlimited national calling plan for new and existing customers to offer convenience and service to both consumer and business customers. The new national plan allows customers to make unli...
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actually 50/50 doesn't matter much any more. barely monitored now since us cellular has better roaming partnerships now.
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then why don't they just get rid of it then? they lose customers because of that rule.
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this was something that here in indiana we just found out from the team that is in charge of enforcing the 50/50 rule.
i can't say whether corporate is looking to scrap the rule. we just struck another deal with sprint that renegotiated the costs. all i know is that they aren't enforcing it like they used to.
almost every provider has similar rules built in the terms for national coverage. most are a 60 home/40 roam policy.
i can't say whether corporate is looking to scrap the rule. we just struck another deal with sprint that renegotiated the costs. all i know is that they aren't enforcing it like they used to.
almost every provider has similar rules built in the terms for national coverage. most are a 60 home/40 roam policy.
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this is right from customer relations a real situation that happened two weeks ago.
A customer who is using their phone out of market for a semester abroad was told by a corporate employee about the 50/50 rule and was woried that he might be introuble. He stoped by two months after moving and I called to talk to customer relations. She said the following "If the customer would continue to use his phone in non us cellular markets eventualy he might risk a shut off but lately there is no real focus on stopping that." she then said that it would be only a problem iff 100% of the calls were out of network and that if it went on for a year or more like that.
I agree it is a stupid rule that should go.
A customer who is using their phone out of market for a semester abroad was told by a corporate employee about the 50/50 rule and was woried that he might be introuble. He stoped by two months after moving and I called to talk to customer relations. She said the following "If the customer would continue to use his phone in non us cellular markets eventualy he might risk a shut off but lately there is no real focus on stopping that." she then said that it would be only a problem iff 100% of the calls were out of network and that if it went on for a year or more like that.
I agree it is a stupid rule that should go.
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I agree with you, that other carriers are enforcing the same rule, some 60/40. But verizon has no such rule, which makes their unlimited plan truly unlimited. Dollar for dollar, you might as well use the one that does not put that limitation on you even though USCC does or does not enforce it very much.
with that said, there is a way around the rule. if you have a family plan, you can get around the 50% rule. Every third month all you would have to do is turn both phones on, call the other cell phone, and let it run all night long while you are sleeping in your home area. You would rack up minutes in your home area and reset the 3 month clock if you dont roam over 50% every third month. Being that on the unlimited plan, there is no...
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with that said, there is a way around the rule. if you have a family plan, you can get around the 50% rule. Every third month all you would have to do is turn both phones on, call the other cell phone, and let it run all night long while you are sleeping in your home area. You would rack up minutes in your home area and reset the 3 month clock if you dont roam over 50% every third month. Being that on the unlimited plan, there is no...
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You are right in that it is an account level rule, not a line rule. That being said, an easier way (the way my parents and I got around it when it was truly a rule) is to have a family plan w/ at least one line in the home area and the other anywhere else. Not a problem there.
Also, not even a step you have to go through so sayeth various people in management. The rule will not be applied to unlimited national plan!
Also, not even a step you have to go through so sayeth various people in management. The rule will not be applied to unlimited national plan!
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"Every third month all you would have to do is turn both phones on, call the other cell phone, and let it run all night long while you are sleeping in your home area. You would rack up minutes in your home area and reset the 3 month clock"
Are you serious? I know some people like to act like it's really some kind of big deal, but those aren't the people who actually cancel an account due to the "rule". I dont really think anyone is in charge of it any more.
Are you serious? I know some people like to act like it's really some kind of big deal, but those aren't the people who actually cancel an account due to the "rule". I dont really think anyone is in charge of it any more.
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OKAY OKAY OKAY! The 50% rule is in the terms and condition for one reason only! If uscc starts losing money on customer that are roaming on a carrier they don't have a good relationship with then they can cancel them. Now I can absolutley tell you that this has happened once that I have seen with my own eyes, five years ago (a very long time in technology)uscc didn't just cancel a customers service but they actually called this customer after they had been using his phone in a major city for nine months and had never been back in the home area and told him they would help him find a new carrier and would let him out of his contract. deal with it was that uscc didn't have a good TDMA roaming partner at the time and it was costing uscc a f...
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Thats basically the same answer I got from my local corp store when I asked them. But I would like to get a moor clear answer. In my case in about a month I will be starting a position that will take me out of my home area 95% of the time and this will go on for at least the next 6 months. The only advice I got was to switch form my old national 800 for $39 to one of the new national plans.
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not exactly everything for $99, text messaging is not included like they have at tmobile,which it should be ☹️
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K, I feel like a real NERD, keeping up with 'phonescoop.com', but rather enjoy all of you tecky nerds battle it out...easily amused I guess...anyways, the reason I got on this site was to see WHEN uscc is ever gonna get some innovative texting phones...thats a whole other thread I see, so sticking to the topic...looks like sprint just undercut everyone with ITS version of the 99$ unlimited....with data, messaging, navigation and whatever else...think everyone will follow suit?
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Yes, But not at first. Verizon and At&t only really care about each other and who is better.
Sprint is struggling for third and t-mobile is just not there yet. Sprint needed to react due to its massive loss in Q4 2007 of nearly 850,000 subscribers. They have always tried the better network advantage but now the better package will allow them to try to re gain some of the lost customer base. (at a really high arpu)
Verizon and At&t will sit back and cater to the consumers that want the named high end carrier and offer all sorts of packages. These current unlimited plans will be based of the other main competitors plan. They have not in the pass cared about the smaller competitors. Look at T-Mobile, US Cellular and Alltel all be...
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Sprint is struggling for third and t-mobile is just not there yet. Sprint needed to react due to its massive loss in Q4 2007 of nearly 850,000 subscribers. They have always tried the better network advantage but now the better package will allow them to try to re gain some of the lost customer base. (at a really high arpu)
Verizon and At&t will sit back and cater to the consumers that want the named high end carrier and offer all sorts of packages. These current unlimited plans will be based of the other main competitors plan. They have not in the pass cared about the smaller competitors. Look at T-Mobile, US Cellular and Alltel all be...
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Yep I was told the same thing yesterday at a Sprint store. I was looking at a smart phone and asking about data & voice was actually recommended to go on that plan bc it covers all phones except blackberry. They said it included all data, text & voice on the sprint network with any windows mobile device. No tethering though ☹️
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With sprint the unlimited everything plan INCLUDES blackberry, just not corporate blackberry.
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