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About to switch to cricket...or not?

araxxis

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Feb 17, 2014
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So i have not had the best go of it with virgin, even tho ive stuck with them for 5+ years not getting consistent LTE in my area (when on there maps i should be getting 100% uninterrupted LTE) along with monthly bills not befitting my service ive decided i may go with cricket.

Here is the thing tho, phones are gonna cost me about 300 bucks and was wondering how i would go about calling virgin mobile and asking for some kind of deal to keep me around? I have two lines, one is mine and i pay for my mothers line as well. I was thinking this: My mother goes over her 1200 minute plan once in a while, think they would give her the unlimited plan for what i am paying now (40 dollar grandfathered). I am happy with my plan so do you think they would give me a free phone upgrade possibly(was thinking S4 or S5?

Has anyone in here worked for virgin and do you have people that work with people threatening to cancel and appease them in any way? I am going to cancel, unless virgin wants to keep a 5+ year customer with two lines and CC on file. Any advice on how i should go about this call much appreciated!
 
Oh ive done my research lol. I know the HSPA Is limited to 4gb's and the LTE is 8mb's but i dont understand why people get hung up on that. Even 4mb's is sufficient for anything you are going to do on your phone (8mb's is massive overkill), most intensive thing i can think of is streaming video like twitch tv (which i do a decent amount of). Few reasons i want to switch:

1. Lower monthly bill with no taxes or fees.
2. Unlimited minutes/text
3. Better LTE area (sprint LTE is absolute trash coverage, i was in downtown st paul the other day and was only getting 3g, this is a massive city there is no way i shouldnt be getting LTE in any part of that area)
4. New phone. I like my current HTC desire but a moto g for 25 bucks that is getting android 5.0 soon is unbeatable.
5. Free phone bill for 3 months (well almost, 100 dollar credit from switching to cricket from VM)

The only downside i can think of is i get 1gb of data per month compared to 2.5 gb's, but in over 5 years of being with VM ive only went over that cap 1 month.
 
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Has anyone in here worked for virgin and do you have people that work with people threatening to cancel and appease them in any way?
Every carrier gets people calling saying they want to cancel/switch to someone else, it's not unusual. Just call them and say you're thinking of switching, they'll probably transfer you to retentions (that's what most carriers do, but I've not dealt with VM).

I am happy with my plan so do you think they would give me a free phone upgrade possibly(was thinking S4 or S5?
There's no way they'll give you a free S4 or S5 :( Virgin Mobile doesn't have contracts so you pay full, or near full, price for phones. Small discount? Possibly :)
 
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Oh ive done my research lol. I know the HSPA Is limited to 4gb's and the LTE is 8mb's but i dont understand why people get hung up on that. Even 4mb's is sufficient for anything you are going to do on your phone (8mb's is massive overkill), most intensive thing i can think of is streaming video like twitch tv (which i do a decent amount of). Few reasons i want to switch:

i guess it's what you use your phone for that matters in the case of speed, i just prefer to get the full speed of the network i'm paying to be on.

3. Better LTE area (sprint LTE is absolute trash coverage, i was in downtown st paul the other day and was only getting 3g, this is a massive city there is no way i shouldnt be getting LTE in any part of that area)

interesting, i get amazing coverage and speed, i've seen 30-50mbit quite abit, maybe having a tri-band spark phone helps.
 
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