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I just got off the phone with my mom and she mentioned her phone bill, does this sound right, and is there anything she can do it lower it? It's quite difficult getting reliable information from her because she paraphrases everything and only tells me what she thinks matters but I tried and here's what I have: The line is a 700 minute family shared plan with 4 lines: - Line 1: $50 for the plan, $29.99 for "email and web unlimited", $9.99 for the line*, $6.99 for insurance - Line 2: $29.99 for "email and web unlimited", $9.99 for the line, $6.99 for insurance - Line 3: $30 for "data package 2 GB", $9.99 for the line, no insurance (iPhone) - Line 4: $9.99 for the line** Notes: * I told her that it makes absolutely no sense that the primary line has a $50 charge for the plan and then a $10 charge for the "line" but she insisted it was the way it was. ** This is a dumbphone line that I guess she wanted to cancel but was cheaper to pay out the contract (until January) than to pay an ETF. I have no idea how long she's been paying this for but whatever. --- So I'm guessing the data plans on line 2 and 3 are grandfathered data plans because they specifically say unlimited, and the third line says 2 GB? Frist of all, is there any way to lower this bill? It seems pretty standard smart phone data + additional line to me so I can't think of anything. I'm just really iffy about the additional "line" on the primary line. I'm also confused because while my mom kept telling me $50 for the plan, she sent me a picture that had a charge for $44 for "account charges and credit" which I'm guessing is a discounted $50? Second, while the first two lines are using Android phones and don't need SMS plans (Google Voice), the third one (my mom's) is an iPhone and she's trying to use Google Voice on it but really it's just a pain in the rear end because it doesn't integrate into iOS like it does on the Android phones that I really want her to just delete the god drat app and pay for a normal SMS plan because I'm tired of troubleshooting why her google voice isn't working over Skype. Is there some special plan she could pick up here that would give her data and SMS? e: I see. Ok, makes sense. I never had Verizon so I didn't know. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Oct 6, 2012 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:* I told her that it makes absolutely no sense that the primary line has a $50 charge for the plan and then a $10 charge for the "line" but she insisted it was the way it was. Remember how plans used to be "$69.99 for the first two lines, $9.99 for additional lines"? They still are, but they've changed how it's charged. It used to be that the primary line would get charged $60 and each other line got charged $9.99. Now they've broken out that $60 charge for the first line as a $50 "account charge" and made it so each line (including the primary) has a $9.99 line charge. Same amount of money (within a penny), different line items. They made that change back in the spring of this year, if I remember correctly.
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Oct 6, 2012 22:33
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Have your mom (or whomever is the primary account holder) go here: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/support/employee-discount-email Using my work email address, I get 20% off per month.
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Oct 7, 2012 02:49
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Is there any benefit of buying a phone SGS III for example at full retail and doing a month to month (other than not being in a contract)? It seems the monthly price would be the same.
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Oct 7, 2012 03:01
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z06ck posted:Is there any benefit of buying a phone SGS III for example at full retail and doing a month to month (other than not being in a contract)? 1. You can buy the Developer Edition model from Samsung which comes with an unlocked bootloader, should you decide to install CM or something at some point. It's not strictly necessary to do so right now, as an unlocked bootloader for locked/Verizon sold/subsidized model leaked out, but if you were purchasing retail anyways, I might consider it. The downside is that it only has a 30 day warranty. 2. If you have unlimited data, you can keep unlimited data. z06ck posted:It seems the monthly price would be the same.
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Oct 7, 2012 03:30
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kensei posted:Have your mom (or whomever is the primary account holder) go here: Is it possible to do this is you're NOT the primary account holder? I'm jumping from Sprint to my parents Verizon account in a couple months (Sprint blows, keeps getting worse, and it really won't cost me any more money for Verizon coverage and LTE)...but the account is in my Dad's name. I'm sure we could do a ToL, but if I don't have to, that'd be great.
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Oct 7, 2012 20:19
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Currently on an out of contract AT&T family plan (4 lines), was thinking of switching to Verizon (all 4 lines would be iPhone 5's) since their coverage seems to be better at some key locations where the phones get used. Couple questions: 1. I'd like to make the switch, but it isn't strictly necessary, plus the AT&T plan is grandfathered on unlimited data. I related that fact to a Verizon rep on the phone, and in a corporate store, and asked them if they could do a better deal than AT&T's retention department. Both stated they weren't allowed to negotiate at all. When we originally joined AT&T from T-Mobile, they payed for a $200 ETF fee on one of the lines, plus threw in some other sweeteners, I guess Verizon isn't as desperate for new customers? 2. If I were able to get an employee discount, can I apply it to my bill after I signed up for Verizon service? So if I pre-order the phones online now, once I receive them can I go down to the corporate store and show them the work ID badge and get the discount applied?
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Oct 8, 2012 00:46
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It's very unlikely they will give you any incentive for switching over. For the discount there's a page on their website where you enter your work email and then click on a link that gets sent to that address and the discount gets applied. Eventually.
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Oct 8, 2012 01:43
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I have a droid razr and it is starting to suck. Battery could be better but the main thing that is really pissing me off is that messaging list takes a few seconds to update from the number to the name. There should be no lag in that at all. It should be loving immediate.
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Oct 8, 2012 15:12
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Doctor Butts posted:I have a droid razr and it is starting to suck.
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Oct 8, 2012 16:14
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Messages are limited to 200 per contact, but only have one contact with that many messages I could try lowering it to 100 or something. Probably have a total of 300 messages right now. Yea maybe I need to clear some of this poo poo out.
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Oct 8, 2012 17:42
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Doctor Butts posted:Probably have a total of 300 messages right now.
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Oct 8, 2012 17:53
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Ozmodiar posted:Is it possible to do this is you're NOT the primary account holder? You can fill out the online form, with dad's info, but your email and if your email is accepted by the computer automatically, it will usually work. Will it stick if that discount ever gets audited? Maybe yes, maybe no.
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Oct 8, 2012 18:26
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http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-will-sunset-2g-and-3g-cdma-networks-2021 Verizon has announced 2021 as the year in which their 1x and EVDO networks go dark for good, ending the age of CDMA2000 in the US.
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Oct 11, 2012 06:47
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Doctor Butts posted:I have a droid razr and it is starting to suck. This is a common Android problem in general. If the SMS database is too big it's going to rescan the entire DB when reopening the text app. The default of 200 sms + 50 mms is just too high for a lot of devices, even today. I usually drop that to 100+10 and it seems to do okay.
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Oct 11, 2012 08:46
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Looks like the RazrHD is dropping on the 16th. Promo lit is here already, looks like they will be advertising the crap out of it.
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Oct 11, 2012 16:17
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Does the promo material say 4.0.4 or 4.1.1 (if you can't say, that's fine)? I'm curious as to whether or not the JB builds are done for it to launch with JB or if it's going to launch with ICS and go to JB like the M.
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Oct 11, 2012 16:23
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I finally convinced my boss to let me switch back to Android! I'm on a corporate plan with an iPhone 4 and will be switching to a GNex which I bought used. Can I just stop by a Verizon corporate store on the way into work and pick up a sim and then when I get to work my boss (the account manager) and I can transfer the device over like normal? We swap devices on lines all the time but we've not gone from a 3G to 4G device before.
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Oct 11, 2012 16:44
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Mighty Horse posted:Looks like the RazrHD is dropping on the 16th. It's the 18th, just announced officially. MAXX HD is out same day.
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http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2012/10/motorola-droid-razr-smartphones.html Verizon's Razr HD announcement Edit: I can't find the off contract price, does anyone know where to find it? texaholic fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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Oct 11, 2012 17:25
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If I were to guess, $599 for the HD and $649 or $699 for the HD MAXX. I would say $549 for the HD and $649 for the MAXX, but I think the M already occupies $549.
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Oct 11, 2012 17:34
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bull3964 posted:Does the promo material say 4.0.4 or 4.1.1 (if you can't say, that's fine)? It doesn't say for sure, but it looks like ICS...just a generic "Android 4.0" on the stuff we got. Looks like we are GETTING them on the 16th, with a on sale date of the 18th, so unless we get told not to, we are selling them on the 16th.  Mighty Horse fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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I was all amped to buy this outright but now I'm getting phone fatigue I think. My Galaxy Nexus hasn't done anything particularly offensive to me for awhile and JB should be coming to my Razr soon. As much as I want the massive battery life of the MAXX, I don't think I can justify spending upwards of $700 for it right now when quad core Krait phones are starting to hit. I'll probably wait and see what pans out for this occam codename and the nexus program in general. I have less than a year left on my Verizon contract anyways and I'm just not sure I want to give up my subsidy to keep unlimited, but if I'm going to be forced to a tiered plan I might as well evaluate all my options and I'm just SO drat tired of hoop jumping around Verizon hardware restrictions.
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Oct 11, 2012 18:40
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RAZR HD will launch with ICS. Jellybean before the end of the year. I've had a production RAZR HD for a couple weeks now, it's very nice but I am spoiled by my tiny RAZR M.
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Oct 11, 2012 18:52
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pbpancho posted:RAZR HD will launch with ICS. Jellybean before the end of the year. I've had a production RAZR HD for a couple weeks now, it's very nice but I am spoiled by my tiny RAZR M. How is the battery life on the Razr HD?
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Oct 11, 2012 18:54
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pbpancho posted:RAZR HD will launch with ICS. Jellybean before the end of the year. I've had a production RAZR HD for a couple weeks now, it's very nice but I am spoiled by my tiny RAZR M. How can the company that owns the android software not release a software current phone. It would be like apple releasing the new iphone with ios5.
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It's going to take a long time for Google and Motorola Mobilty to full integrate. Assuming Google even wants to do that. There's a pretty good chance Google only bought them for the patents so that they can better defend Android against Apple.
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Don Lapre posted:How can the company that owns the android software not release a software current phone. It would be like apple releasing the new iphone with ios5. Because the phone was probably in the planning and production phase long before google bought Motorola.
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Oct 11, 2012 19:03
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texaholic posted:How is the battery life on the Razr HD? It's great, the bigger battery and the S4 make it almost comparable to the MAXX I was using before this. The M gets crazy good battery life as well, I ususally end the day (we're talking 7-8AM to 10 or 11PM) with 30% or more.
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Oct 11, 2012 19:05
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Confirming the crazy good battery on the M. I was sick yesterday so it sat all day not being used and only lost like 14% charge.
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Oct 11, 2012 19:13
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Mighty Horse posted:Confirming the crazy good battery on the M. How the hell is this good?
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right arm posted:How the hell is this good? how isnt it? most phones wil drop 50 percent in a day of idle minimum.
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Oct 11, 2012 23:55
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right arm posted:How the hell is this good? 
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kbar posted:Because finishing a day of standby on a dual-radio dual-core LTE phone with an undersized battery and a 4-inch screen and 86% battery remaining is loving incredible? Keep in mind the built-in 2000mah battery is larger than the vast majority of stock batteries. And losing 14% is not bad at all, especially if it was still syncing various emails and all that jazz. It's not like it was left in airplane mode all day...
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My GNEx will lose 14% over a period of 3-4 hours on idle without WiFi on. So yeah, only losing 14% all day is pretty incredible.
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kbar posted:Because finishing a day of standby on a dual-radio dual-core LTE phone with an undersized battery and a 4-inch screen and 86% battery remaining is loving incredible? I dunno, the iPhone 5 manages to lose less than 14% battery in a day of not being used.
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right arm posted:I dunno, the iPhone 5 manages to lose less than 14% battery in a day of not being used.
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It's very obviously less about the operating system and more about the fact that we're on second-gen LTE radios.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:how isnt it? most phones wil drop 50 percent in a day of idle minimum. kbar posted:It's very obviously less about the operating system and more about the fact that we're on second-gen LTE radios.
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