There have always been tricks to maintain UDP and get free phones hence contracts.How is it possible to still have a contract with unlimited data? Verizon stopped offering unlimited data 4 years ago and you've had to pay full price (no subsidies) for your phone to keep UDP.
The blogosphere never goes to press before the whole story is out though.I think they updated the article since I first read it, adding the date.
I'm still in contract and on unlimited until January, 2016. If I'm understanding the new rules correctly, it allows for us to get subsidized pricing without losing our unlimited. If that's the case, I'll just get a subsidized iPhone and then sell it. Use the proceeds to fund the extra $20/month fee while funding my own devices off to the side like I always have.
I've been off contract and on UDP for years. This frosts me! UDP customers make up less than 1% of their customer base... why oh WHY must they bother us?
To be clear, UDP customers can now use the monthly payment plan option, but there's no subsidy. You're still paying full price on the phone, you just don't have to pay it all upfront.
What infuriates me is, I paid full retail for a Droid Turbo last December. Now I'm going to be forced to go to a fixed-rate plan after only one year of paying full price for my device! I don't use enough data to justify the extra $20 per month. My wife is on a 2GB plan and has gone over her limit twice this year. Switching to a 12GB plan probably makes sense for us. But I'm still pissed about paying full retail for a phone and not being able to keep the $30 UDP.
Anyhows, is there any way I could renew my unlimited as a contract before the price increase goes through? I was under the impression back in 2013 that I couldn't go under contract with unlimited anymore, hence why I bought a phone full price.
Folks, I'm a bit confused. I still have unlimited. I believe I've been out of contract about 2 years; I bought my Droid Maxx at full price in Dec 2013, but that's OK, because it went cheap for like a day and my credit card refunded the differences.
Anyhows, is there any way I could renew my unlimited as a contract before the price increase goes through? I was under the impression back in 2013 that I couldn't go under contract with unlimited anymore, hence why I bought a phone full price.
I use about 1.8 GB a month, and once hit 3 GB. My wife has 2 GB plan and uses about 2 GB a month. I also still get corporate discount on data, which they stopped a long time ago, so with my 450 minutes, no texting, and unlimited data, with taxes and discount, I pay $60/month. Please recommend what I should do. I'm OK with paying full retail for a phone.
Folks, I'm a bit confused. I still have unlimited. I believe I've been out of contract about 2 years; I bought my Droid Maxx at full price in Dec 2013, but that's OK, because it went cheap for like a day and my credit card refunded the differences.
Anyhows, is there any way I could renew my unlimited as a contract before the price increase goes through? I was under the impression back in 2013 that I couldn't go under contract with unlimited anymore, hence why I bought a phone full price.
I use about 1.8 GB a month, and once hit 3 GB. My wife has 2 GB plan and uses about 2 GB a month. I also still get corporate discount on data, which they stopped a long time ago, so with my 450 minutes, no texting, and unlimited data, with taxes and discount, I pay $60/month. Please recommend what I should do. I'm OK with paying full retail for a phone.
Folks, I'm a bit confused. I still have unlimited. I believe I've been out of contract about 2 years; I bought my Droid Maxx at full price in Dec 2013, but that's OK, because it went cheap for like a day and my credit card refunded the differences.
Anyhows, is there any way I could renew my unlimited as a contract before the price increase goes through? I was under the impression back in 2013 that I couldn't go under contract with unlimited anymore, hence why I bought a phone full price.
I use about 1.8 GB a month, and once hit 3 GB. My wife has 2 GB plan and uses about 2 GB a month. I also still get corporate discount on data, which they stopped a long time ago, so with my 450 minutes, no texting, and unlimited data, with taxes and discount, I pay $60/month. Please recommend what I should do. I'm OK with paying full retail for a phone.
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