Phone Purchase Options...
So many times and so many different discussions on this site and they almost all relay back to a bad experience purchasing handset equipment at a VZW store location. Verizon Wireless is simply a service provider. When your landling phone equipment craps out on you, do you call them? No, the average person huffs and puffs and gets their happy a** to wal-mart to buy a new one. Just a little point to put out there for all you anti-purchasing a phone in-store consumers. It is NOT a requirement for the customer to purchase their phone from a Verizon Wireless retail location. It is simply a convenience. You can get your phones directly through the manufacturer, or off of E-bay, and hope to god later on down the road if you happen to have pr...
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but know and days its verizons screwing with the software that is causing all of the problems.if they would leave the phones the way the manufacturer made them,wouldnt have as many problems.
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jpg said:
I am always yelling at Ford and I drive an Bentley.
Sure.. as a chauffeur. buh-dump-buh.
Sry, couldn't resist. 😁
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The comparison with landline doesn't hold water. By law the land line company's must let any manufacturers equipment on their system. Verizon wireless maintains total control over what equipment can be activated on their network.
If Verizon Wireles does not like being held accountable for handset problems, they should get out of the handset business and open the network to any maufacturer who wishes to produce handsets compatable with the network!
If Verizon Wireles does not like being held accountable for handset problems, they should get out of the handset business and open the network to any maufacturer who wishes to produce handsets compatable with the network!
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Verizon is not, nor have they ever been in the handset business. They do not own and/or operate any manufacturing plants, anywhere. They offer wireless SERVICE, and they also offer customers the ability to purchase phones at deeply subsidized prices, far less than what one would pay to buy a phone directly from the manufacturer!!!
They do allow anyone who makes phones to that are compatible with there network to sell them, but they do not knwo if the phone is compatible with out putting it through testing first.
They do allow anyone who makes phones to that are compatible with there network to sell them, but they do not knwo if the phone is compatible with out putting it through testing first.
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And making the manufacturers use their own propriatary UI. Verizon has complete and final say as to what phones can and cannot be used on their wireless network. Therefore, they ARE responsible for the problems with the phones that they sell, whether they made them or not.
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Actually Verizon is in the handset business, I now this because I gave a Verizon wireless employee my money and he gave me a new phone. Unless CompUSA isn't in the computer business, they just discount computers for consumers. May be that's why laptops that cost over 2 grand a few years ago now cost around $500, no wait that's called a free market economy. Manufacturers sell a product to consumers, if it costs too much consumers don't buy it until manufacturers can figure out how to make it cheaper. You need to stop trying to redirect consumers away from Verizon’s sorry phone lineup by blaming phone manufacturers for everything.
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