verizon just raised grandfathered unlimited data from 30$ to 50$ a month :(

[Newell Steamer]

Why do you feel so entitled?

 

[slag]

Stop watching so much porn. Jesus I have 20gb for three lines and hardly go over 5gb as a family.

Family of 4 here, sometime a week before the cycle rolls we get the 75% usage text. Who watches porn on a tablet or phone??

They don't even use netflix or anything, just normal texting and game playing.

We have an 8 GB plan and have gone over it a couple times.

 

[SP33Demon]

fixed that for you

This is actually true with TMobile. Luckily I live within 5mi of a major road, but when I visit some of my friends out in the sticks I won't get a signal. However, the signal that I get is faster for 4g than all other carriers in the area. Weird how that works.

 

[SunnyD]

And their service still sucks.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world where you don't live...

T-Mo works perfectly fine.

 

[Fritzo]

fixed that for you

I love their coverage map:

http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage.html

You look at it and go "WOW! they have a lot of coverage!" But when you get down to about 25% maximum zoom, you start seeing large blotches of "Fair Signal" areas in just about every city I looked at so far.

 

[John Connor]

stream music for 8 hour a day, 5 days a week

BOOM 20+ GB of data use

Great thing I just learned about Virgin Mobile is that Pandora, Slacker and iheartradio is free to stream.

 

[brianmanahan]

Why do you feel so entitled?

because i'm good enough, i'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me

 

[spdfreak]

Called Verizon and they dropped the 20.00 increase for a month since I told them I was going to jump ship to ATT. ATT just installed fiber in my neighborhood, so when they turn it on, I will probably go to ATT and try to bundle internet and wireless. At that point I won't need unlimited anymore. The crazy thing is that they seem fine losing a 10 yr customer over 20.00 when I'm really a light user- only 150min of talk/mo usually and <500 texts/mo. and I pay the 30.00 tethering fee each month. Plus they have no real WP options.

 

[Strk]

Called Verizon and they dropped the 20.00 increase for a month since I told them I was going to jump ship to ATT. ATT just installed fiber in my neighborhood, so when they turn it on, I will probably go to ATT and try to bundle internet and wireless. At that point I won't need unlimited anymore. The crazy thing is that they seem fine losing a 10 yr customer over 20.00 when I'm really a light user- only 150min of talk/mo usually and <500 texts/mo. and I pay the 30.00 tethering fee each month. Plus they have no real WP options.

You left out how much data you use

 

[spdfreak]

You left out how much data you use

Usually 20-25 gigs. Not crazy like some folks. I know a guy with unlimited that uses 300.

 

[Fritzo]

Usually 20-25 gigs. Not crazy like some folks. I know a guy with unlimited that uses 300.

 

[NutBucket]

Well, now they've blocked FoxFi to boot it seems.

Went back to my NoteII since it has root.

I missed this post.

FoxFi is still working fine on my Note4.

 

[dainthomas]

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world where you don't live...

T-Mo works perfectly fine.

Word. I went up to Victoria with my girlfriend and she had to basically put her AT&T phone on airplane mode when we weren't around wifi or she would have had ridiculous data/roaming charges. I assume Verizon is even worse.

Meanwhile I just got a text from T-Mobile saying "Hey, you're in Canada now. Keep on keepin' on."

 

[slag]

I use about 25GB a month on tmobile unlimited.

How? I'm a medium phone junkie.. when not working, I am checking out facebook, a few youtube movies, playing a few games perhaps, texting and receiving texts for work, etc. We share 8 GB between 4 of us and rarely go over. I suppose maybe if you streamed pandora all day long that might happen but who does that?

How can one person use 3x that in a month on a cellular device?

 

[Scarpozzi]

I missed this post.

FoxFi is still working fine on my Note4.

It was working fine on my Droid Razr, but stopped when I switched to the 2013 MotoX...I had to root, swap the native hotspot APK, and lock the OS to get native working...but that's been fine this past year. I cancelled my cable modem service because I wasn't home enough to justify the cost. I figure, if they're going to charge me $20/month more...I'm going to let my daughter stream all the video she wants.

If the price goes up anymore, I'll drop back to a prepaid, second tier service and go back to the cable modem service at home now that I've saved around $1000 since I cancelled that service in 16 months time.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

not brian but i'll give it a shot.

fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you bubbleawsone

im not very good at it, it seems.

That sums up our Verizon experience.

 

[zinfamous]

switch to Cricket or TMobile if you can.

 

[zinfamous]

Usually 20-25 gigs. Not crazy like some folks. I know a guy with unlimited that uses 300.

I don't understand how anyone uses even 20 gigs.

I think I put like 70mb on my data per month...and that is primarily stupid background updates that I thought I turned off.

stupid phone.

 

[brianmanahan]

i am still on Verizon but if i don't use more than 2 gigs in the next 2 months, i will switch to 45$ a month plan

 

[spdfreak]

I don't understand how anyone uses even 20 gigs.

I think I put like 70mb on my data per month...and that is primarily stupid background updates that I thought I turned off.

stupid phone.

It is my internet when I'm at home... hotspot. The guy I know that uses 300 lives in the sticks and there is not even dsl. His is internet for a family of 5. That still seems like a huge amount of data, though.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Word. I went up to Victoria with my girlfriend and she had to basically put her AT&T phone on airplane mode when we weren't around wifi or she would have had ridiculous data/roaming charges. I assume Verizon is even worse.

Meanwhile I just got a text from T-Mobile saying "Hey, you're in Canada now. Keep on keepin' on."

You know you can turn off roaming, so your phone only uses it's normal carrier.
At least my verizon 6 and 6s do that.

It is my internet when I'm at home... hotspot. The guy I know that uses 300 lives in the sticks and there is not even dsl. His is internet for a family of 5. That still seems like a huge amount of data, though.

I use ~200-400 by myself. :$

 

[dainthomas]

You know you can turn off roaming, so your phone only uses it's normal carrier.
At least my verizon 6 and 6s do that.

Would that allow her to use her phone with no fees for international usage?

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Would that allow her to use her phone with no fees for international usage?

It should, as it will disable connections unless it's on a free network.

 

[RockinZ28]

Woot. I was able to skip the $20 increase/mo for at least a couple years. Got back on contract, got a Note 5 for $50 which I'll sell for $400+. And I broke my own data record last month, suck that Verizon.

I missed this post.

FoxFi is still working fine on my Note4.

Yea it was a problem with FoxFi, and was down for several days apparently.

 

[Jerem]

Woot. I was able to skip the $20 increase/mo for at least a couple years. Got back on contract, got a Note 5 for $50 which I'll sell for $400+. And I broke my own data record last month, suck that Verizon.

Yea it was a problem with FoxFi, and was down for several days apparently.

Foxfi came back for me after a couple days also. I tried a couple other apps and they didn't work.