Comments on: Verizon upgrade fee last to the party

By: unknown mojo

unknown mojo — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Others catching up??? Verizon has over 200 LTE markets and ATT is under 10 LTE markets and Sprint’s has 0 LTE markets. Do you not understand that 3G is like the old analog network? One day it will expire and LTE will be what everyone uses. Verizon will have the nation covered in LTE, the future of all wireless networks, before Sprint can find someone to give them more money to correct the stupid mistake of investing in wimax.

By: No

No — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:27:00 +0000

Sprint charges 36 for their upgrade fee

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:06:00 +0000

My boss moved his entire family to sprint last month, better family plans, better data plans and same iphone as verizon. my contract is up and the 30 dollar fee reduces the discount they give me to resign so where is the incentive to resign with them. They are nit the only game in town anymore, not the king they once were, others are catching up in high speed data and dont have the swollen head Verizon does. They remind me of the old Novell and AT&T or IBM who got too big and let their my way or the highway attitude drive customers away. With their low data high cost plans killing us now this is salt on an open wound.

By: Idon't Know

Idon't Know — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:54:00 +0000

Yeah, really. it reads like a Verizon ad. I guess they think their readers are stupid. I’m sure its just a coincidence that there is a Verizon ad at the bottom of the page…

By: DK

DK — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:50:00 +0000

I’m going to look at Sprint. Don’t think they have that fee and my sister has them and she seems to have coverage everywhere that I do.

By: ChrisKenison

ChrisKenison — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:57:00 +0000

Did Verizon pay you to write this article?

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Wow I have Verizon Wireless and this blows me away, honestly I wonder why I continue to be a post-paid consumer when I could have a pre-paid line for so much cheaper. Yeah my coverage in rural areas would be sucky and I wouldn’t have the latest and greatest but I am spending so much now on phone service. I already pay 186.84 a month for two smart phones which is insane. Its not like I have a giant plan I have the lowest family plan in terms of minutes (700) and the lowest texting plan. I pay a huge premium already for having verizon why are they going to try and stick me with another $30 dollars. This is just as bad as that $2 dollar processing fee they tried to shove down everyone’s throat.

Doesn’t make any sense why hit loyal customers with an additional fee, these are people who are trying to recommit for another 2 years its stupid. Almost as dumb as buying a phone at full retail, my buddy always pays full retail for a phone because he hates two year contracts. And I’m like dude your stupid its not like verizon has different pricing for people who pay full retail and those who don’t everyone is charged the same for service. By getting a phone at full retail you are giving verizon a free gift of money as they wont have to subsidize the cost of the phone. Even if you keep 1 year of your 2 year contract your still ahead of the game especially with the iphone. That phone will set you back 649.00 at full retail for the 16gb model but only 199.00 if you get a two year contract. So even if you break your contract after just 1 year you still would have only paid 199.00 for the phone and $230 for the ETF so a total of $429 so a savings of $220 dollars had you bought the phone at full retail.

That being said Verizon knows that people will do the same math I just did so they know that they can add an additional $30 on top of all that and get away with it because its still a good deal of savings for the customer but damn that don’t make it right.

If verizon offered subsidized pricing vs. unsubsidized pricing then this would be a totally different kind of beast but whether you pay 649.00 for a phone or 199.99 for the phone your still going to pay the same $70 for a shared 700 minute family plan, $30 a month for data on each device and $10 a month for text on each device. So while the $30 sucks your still ahead of the game if you commit to a contract and verizon knows it