VZW Grandfathered Unlimited Data is going away

[awpitt]

For very high data users. You have until August 31st....

Verizon customers who use excessive data must make a choice -- switch plans or lose service. The wireless provider informed affected customers about the change -- a small number of unlimited data users whose usage is "hundreds of times" greater than the average, Verizon said in a statement.

Users who fit this category must switch over to one of Verizon's new plans by August 31. If they don't, their lines will get disconnected.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/23/new...ustomers/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool



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[Restitution]

Interesting....

Give your most loyal (have to be if they are still getting unlimited) customers the choice to stay with unlimited data..... realize your mistake down the road... then boot them off because it doesn't suit Verizon!

 

[Clem72]

How is this an issue? It's not like the plan said "unlimited, for the same price, forever". It's a service they stopped selling because it wasn't profitable (or wasn't as profitable as something else), and they let people who were already enrolled continue on for many years. Now they are saying they choose not to renew these plans in the future. They are under no obligation to continue the plan forever or to grandfather anyone.

Let's get this straight, this is not the same as saying "you pay me $50 and I give you unlimited data", then cutting you off after you paid because you used too much data. This is "Welp, you used more data than we think is reasonable in the past so we choose to no longer offer you unlimited data in the future".

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Damnit. It was only a matter of time I guess.

13.5GB used this month so far.

 

[wubbles]

Even though this won't change anything for me it's bull####. I still use a ton of mobile data, usually averaging around 30gb/mo. However, the people that use 100gb+/mo that this change impacts are still paying for unlimited just like I am. It's crap to come back and go back on the agreement you made with your very long-time customers you have been GOUGING for the past decade. It already costs me $186/mo for two unlimited lines and data is cheap as hell for Verizon to move. Verizon is already basically printing money and they want even more? Bunch of snakes.

 

[GURPS]

how the hell do you use 30 / 100 Gb PER MONTH ?

 

[Bird Dog]

how the hell do you use 30 / 100 Gb PER MONTH ?

I think it must be Porn or Gaming.....

 

[GURPS]

I think it must be Porn or Gaming.....

I am on and off my phone all day - messaging / facebook / some web surfing I barely use 2 gb or my 5 per month


constantly streaming HD Movies :shrug:


a friend of mine burned 1 Gb in 4 hrs of Facebook Messanger Video Chat

 

[lucky_bee]

how the hell do you use 30 / 100 Gb PER MONTH ?

There are several people I know of that live way south of the base. Up until now, their cheapest and easiest (possibly only?) way to get internet was using their phones as hotspots for the whole house. I can't remember the circumstances with Metrocast - if they wouldn't or couldn't on these particular properties.

My guy has the unlimited plan right now, and even with wifi at home he still goes over 10-15GB/month, easily. But he likes to use his phone as a hotspot so he can watch Netflix in his truck on his lunch breaks

 

[Clem72]

It's crap to come back and go back on the agreement you made with your very long-time customers you have been GOUGING for the past decade.

Go back on your agreement? Suppose you believe rent should never increase, whoppers should always be $0.99, and bakeries should be forced to make wedding cakes for everyone (even those they don't want as customers)?

 

[getbent]

Go back on your agreement? Suppose you believe rent should never increase, whoppers should always be $0.99, and bakeries should be forced to make wedding cakes for everyone (even those they don't want as customers)?

I agree. I do think Verizon charges a lot for their service but agreements/contracts change all the time. There's more than one mobile service provider. People can always switch.

 

[Clem72]

how the hell do you use 30 / 100 Gb PER MONTH ?

Lots of video, that's about the only way. I watch some video, stream music, and do some web browsing when on the pot and I never use more than about 2GB per month.

But, given Netflix/Hulu/Prime/Crackle/YouTube I am sure our home internet uses close to 1TB/mo. So if they are using a phone as a hotspot for their primary internet connection this doesn't seem like all that much data.

And just to put it out there, I think most (possibly all) of the wireless carriers are sharks and that data caps are purely greed. But I believe it's their right to be greedy #######s if they feel like it; your free to move to a different slightly less greedy ####### if you like.

 

[Radiant1]

I agree. I do think Verizon charges a lot for their service but agreements/contracts change all the time. There's more than one mobile service provider. People can always switch.

Exactly. It's usually in the small print on that contract that you didn't read but signed anyway stating they can, more or less, change it up any time they want to. I was grandfathered into a plan with AT&T years ago and they finally forced me to pay extra or move elsewhere. I'm a Verizon customer now.

 

[awpitt]

Damnit. It was only a matter of time I guess.

13.5GB used this month so far.

I have four lines (3phones, 1 tablet) on my account and we average around 20Gb per month.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Glad I have no dog in this fight, use traditional computer based internet, have a Tracfone for emergencies, which is on maybe 5 - 6 minutes a week.

 

[b23hqb]

Glad I have no dog in this fight, use traditional computer based internet, have a Tracfone for emergencies, which is on maybe 5 - 6 minutes a week.

I don't have a dog in that fight, either, as far as wireless goes. We use AT&T. However I cannot wait until October when my contract with Verizon ends so I can dump them for dumping me, along with all other Verizon customers in Ca, Tx, and Fl, into the Frontier and AOL systems.

Screw Verizon.

 

[GURPS]

yeah no dog here either .... just wanted to understand


back in the day I had 'unlimited' internet - dial up - through Earthlink

you know they get pissy if you leave a computer dialed in for weeks at a time

 

[Radiant1]

yeah no dog here either .... just wanted to understand


back in the day I had 'unlimited' internet - dial up - through Earthlink

you know they get pissy if you leave a computer dialed in for weeks at a time

Me too, but I didn't have a dedicated phone for internet use so I disconnected often. Of course back then I didn't know what fast was, so it wasn't painful to wait for that dial-up and subsequent 14.4 baud rate. I would go bat shiat crazy if I had to use that now!

 

[spr1975wshs]

Our 1st modem was given to us by the USAF for my wife's studies at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Quite-Pathetic in Ohio back in 1981, was a 300 baud acoustic that your stuck the telephone handset into. Had a VT100 emulator/monochrome terminal with a thermofax printer, too. We both had access to the old DARPANet and US Navy...then we discovered BBS's.

 

[Kinnakeet]

How is this an issue? It's not like the plan said "unlimited, for the same price, forever". It's a service they stopped selling because it wasn't profitable (or wasn't as profitable as something else), and they let people who were already enrolled continue on for many years. Now they are saying they choose not to renew these plans in the future. They are under no obligation to continue the plan forever or to grandfather anyone.

Let's get this straight, this is not the same as saying "you pay me $50 and I give you unlimited data", then cutting you off after you paid because you used too much data. This is "Welp, you used more data than we think is reasonable in the past so we choose to no longer offer you unlimited data in the future".

Is welp even a word?