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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kenbrownstone:
I hope every one here knows that if you have unlimited data with Verizon and you UPGRADE YOU CAN STILL KEEP YOUR UNLIMITED PLANS. THERE IS ALOT OF MISS INFORMATION ON THIS:banghead::banghead:. I UPGRADED AND KEPT MINE.ALSO MY BOSS DID MY INLAWS AND THATS RIGHT MY BARBER.IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST ASK ME.DONT BELIEVE THE INFO SAYING U HAVE TO GO TO TIER OR SHARE PLANS:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::):)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike86325:
I've heard the only way to do that is to buy a phone at full retail price. Is there another way?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kenbrownstone:
Yes ......call them and tell them after you upgrade you want your unlimited back .They will give it to you. But call before you upgrade so it will be in your file. This only can be done on the phone not in any store. When you upgrade just take the 2gb plan. Then when you get the phone call them back and tell them to put the unlimited back on. They do this for loyal customers. Don't let them tell you they don't cause they do. The person you speak to might not know so ask for another rep.Don't upgrade until it is in you file saying they will give it back to you after wards. This works I know for a fact. This is just not advertised. I only learned because a rep was nice enuff to tell me.....So spread the word...Its called The Loyal Customer worry free exchange program......THIS DOES WORK .I UPGRADED MINE AND MY WIFES.PLUS MY BOSS AND BARBER( I get free hair cuts now lol):thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike86325:
Thanks so much for the advice! I still have a little less than a year left, but ill have to remember this when I go to upgrade!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mayze23:
You will miss Verizon sorely once you do any traveling. No other network comes close to the coverage they have.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] krazie1:
I can't jump ship from Verizon either because the carrier I want to go to (T-Mobile) has the same crappy service from when I was with them 2 years ago. If LTE was to come to my area on T-Mobile I would definitely test it and if its worth it i'll jump ship from Verizon. But Verizon has to be the best service I get in my area & i'm still grandfathered in on my Unlimited Data, been getting phones through Swappa & Craigslist for the time being.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PsiPhiDan:
To me, it's similar to Comcast - they have high prices, but the best service too. I always have a great signal, blazing fast internet... hard to complain about the price to me. I'm coming from Sprint, who's price was barely cheaper, and the service was terrible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] milehighh:
My Comcast WiFi barely beats it, I have no complaints
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
Anybody here know if the Nexus 4 has that built in Wi-Fi calling/texting on T-Mobile?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] milehighh:
No it doesn't. It's unbranded so no built in WiFi calling. But Google voice is a good alternative
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
Google voice works if I'm in a bad fringed area & I need to make a call?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] milehighh:
When connected to WiFi. Get a Google voice number and an app for VoIP, like "phone for gtalk" or "grooveip", then you could make calls, you could even take it a step further and forward calls to your Google voice number when you can't be reached on your normal cell.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
Cool, thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eman3316@optonline.net:
I must say that signal at my job is not good at all. I just ordered a straight talk sim which uses ATT and will give that a shot to see if it is better.

They have an unlimited plan for $45. I am willing to try anything to be able to stick with a Nexus device but the bottom line is I need a phone that I can use...I will explore all my options before thrwoing in the towel and keeping my Verizon account!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psychdroid:
For those that are on those (imo) crappy share everything plans I don't blame you for wanting to jump ship, but for someone like me who is grandfathered in to unlimted data and uses 9GB/month on average I think jumping ship is out of the question.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
If I had Verizon's unlimited LTE, I would not jump ship. I'd cancel my home internet. Root & Tether all my stuff. Why would I need home internet if my Verizon LTE speeds R faster?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dakota-boy:
My company switched to Sprint and it was so bad that we went back to Verizon. Not to bad though, as we have a50 gb block of data for 25 phones and they average about 10....so I have plenty to play with
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psychdroid:
Exactly what I did lol:highfive:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droid316:
I have been on unlimited for like five years now and my contract is up in December.I hope they let me keep my grandfathered unlimited data, if not I'm switching to someone else with unlimited.10 year customer here maybe longer
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
You will be able to keep your unlimited data if you do NOT renew your contract. Meaning if you want to stay with Verizon Wireless & also keep unlimited data, you will have to buy new phones off contract at full retail price. Or another option is to buy phones off of Craigslist or eBay for cheaper price.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droid316:
well me buying another phone at retail price aint happening.Even going month to month i cant keep unlimited?

Why would i want to get another phone when i love my gs3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
You will be able to keep your S3 on a month to month.

As long as Verizon doesn't end grandfathered unlimited.. If you want to purchase newer devices, and unlimited is still available, then you'll have to purchase the device as per the previous post.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cpurick:
I like Big Red's network, but I'm honestly disappointed with the phone selection and the way they lock down their phones.

I only have the GS3 because I've been a loyal customer for ten years and they didn't want me to walk away over my dissatisfaction with my HTC Rezound. That said, the Galaxy is a much more superior phone than I ever imagined. Considering it's only a few months newer than the Rezound was, I'm amazed at how much faster the GS3 is. I even kind of like Super AMOLED now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eman3316@optonline.net:
So I am officially gone from Verizon. Picked up the Nexus 4 16GB from the Play Store for $249. First hooked it up to T-Mobile but coverage was not good.

So I picked up a sim card for Straight Talk. It is $45 a month and uses AT&T towers. Much better coverage now. It is suppose to be unlimited everything but there are lots of stories saying they will cut you data off if you use to much. Will most likely only be using this card for a month though as a MVNO is going Nation Wide in September....

They offer 2 decent plans. One gives you 2GB of high speed internet for $55 a month and the other plan gives you 7GB of high speed internet for $70 a month and I believe they say that includes tax. They also use AT&T's network. Even anyone might be thinking of jumping ship this might be the way to go.....

http://www.aiowireless.com/home.html
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alt230:
I hate VZW's politics but T-mobile isn't better. ATT is the worst (big surprise). I will probably move to a month to month contract. VZW has the best coverage.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aburgthing:
I came to Verizon from Sprint June of last year because Sprint's nascent LTE network was not slated to get underway in my area until this summer. I couldn't stomach another two years of snail slow data. While work is still underway, it still has not launched here so that was a good decision. Verizon and AT&T definitely will not get my business when my contract is up because of their draconian methods of locking all their phones . That leaves T-Mobile with a good chance of getting my business. They have 4G in my town at least (I don't travel much) and their phones are still pretty open for now. I was lucky with the GS3 from Verizon in that a leaked bootloader was found, but looking at the ghost towns in the development forums for new Verizon phones is depressing. My plan for now at least is to wait until the GS5 (or something better comes out next summer), and drop Verizon like they dropped the development community.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wrngway:
AIO Wireless is going nationwide sometime this month. Eman mentioned them. That seems worth looking into if you want good coverage and a month to month no contract plan at a decent price. The only catch is that they cap the data transfer rate at 8Gb/s, which is still fast.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psychdroid:
Sure Verizon locks their phone but there is more times than not a work around. I had a droid razr (locked down tighter than fort knox) became a absolute joy of a device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eman3316@optonline.net:
It is actually available now...

There are quite a few good choices now if people want to go pre-paid. I tried T-Mobile and the service was horrible so for me I am sticking with a company that uses AT&T towers. Actually where I am AT&T has given me better signal then Verizon. So far I am impressed.

Some options:

AT&T's Go Phone at $60 a month for 2GB, unlimited talk and text. $10 more for another GB.

T-Mobiles pre-paid at $30 a for 100 talk minutes, unlimited text and I believe 5GB of high speed. T-Mobile service just did not cut it for me.

Straight Talk's $45 unlimited everything for $45 a month on AT&T's network. Although people claim they actually only let you use about 1.5GB of data a month. I am currently on this but will most likely be switching to Aio Wireless when my month is up.

Aio Wireless - Uses AT&T network. $55 a month for 2GB, unlimited talk and text and $70 for 7GB w/ unlimited talk and text. They do cap their speeds even when you are in your paid data range so will have to see and hear how people say it is for them.

If I am missing any please add them...If anyone has any questions let me know. I have been on a CDMA for the past 15 years so this whole GSM unlocked thing was totally new for me...I must say I am enjoying my $250 N4 and no contracts though! Plus knowing I will be getting a piece of that Kit-Kat bar is pretty nice as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aburgthing:
Not really and developers who know a heck of a lot more than me are not encouraged that they will be able to break the encryption anymore. See GS4, HTC One, all the new Motorola devices on Verizon. Locked down tight with little hope of them being cracked. Only other alternative is development devices. Only problem there is you have to hope developers jump on board.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
I jumped ship Before my contract was up, about 18 months before :laugh: and it cost me $325 for the privilege to do so.

I posted earlier in the thread as to why.

I was just reading the 'After' part in the thread name, and had to chime in again, as T-Mobile is just that good :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nachtfrost:
My, how this thread has grown!!

A few posts above me mentioned AIO Wireless, and after much investigation I think I will have to jump on with them soon.

A few years ago I had AT&T contract and I had started Over the road truck driving (all over the U.S.). Coverage was pretty great, and I rarely had coverage issues. Then I went to prepaid AT&T and had about the same coverage (except in some places, like extreme-north of Maine). After having to use a PAYPHONE (wow, those still exist!!) to call my dispatcher, I decided I couldn't stay there. I went to Verizon a few months later, and eventually quit trucking.

Now that I'm home (south of Richmond, VA) and job-searching, I've noticed that Verizon is very poor at my house. I'm rather scared that I'll miss a call from a prospective employer while I'm home!

My friend who lives ~15 minutes from me has better coverage but still complains (poor baby doesn't have full bars), so he called Verizon, they sent out a tech to meausre signal levels in the area and they offered him a ETF waiver (or an option to upgrade phones every 6 months). I know if they did that for him, they'll certainly do it for me where I get -98 to -110dBm in my house!! (and -85 to -93 in his house).

So, with that in mind, he and I split the cost of a AT&T GoPhone SIM and started testing in our houses. It was always a few dBm better in my house and only 1 or 2 in his. The 5dB may not sound like a lot, but I can leave my phone sitting in random places inside, and it will still receive a phone call. That's very important for me. If I step onto my front porch, I'll have full bars and around -82dB.

After all of this, I think I'll have to call and complain to try and get that waived ETF as well. If not, I may even have to pay up... Tomorrow I'll be getting a T-Mobile SIM to see how poorly that does. I would love to get on with their new UNCarrier philosophy. However, I may end up trucking again locally and am scared to go out into some boonies (I live in Virginia) where there's 0 coverage from T-Mobile... maybe I'll keep a spare AT&T sim with a few dollars on it in case I break down.

In the meantime I'll have to use Talkatone with google voice and forward my number whenever I'm home.

So far my only prob with verizon is in my neighborhood. I may just get one of their Network Extenders (femtocell) or possibly a cell phone repeater (more likely, cuz multi-band and will work with any carriers).

Thanks for reading ;)

EDIT: From what I've read about AIO Wireless, once you use up your LTE cap, you're knocked down to 256k. I can still live with that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alquimista:
Can we get a poll or something going here. Something that lists VZW alternatives (and what towers they rent if applicable)?

Ta,

ALQI
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] needhelp66:
I jumped ship from VZW to Page Plus

I went from VZW to Page Plus. A lot of people do not know that Page Plus even exists. The cell phone store flashed my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 to go to them. The coverage is their towers and Verizon towers!!! So the coverage is better than what I had with Verizon! The $55 prepaid plan is 2GB of data unlimited talk and text the drawback to going with them is the fact that my Hotspot no longer works on my phone because they do not provide that and their 3G speed is slow. If you can deal with that it's a good company to go with. They also have a $70 plan that gives to 5GB of Data.

Hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pwrmedia:
Think I'm jumping to AIO

Contract is up next August, and unless I get frustrated enough to buyout the remainder of what's left before then, I'll be jumping ship to AIO. Even w/ my corporate discount through VZW, the AIO Pro $70 (which includes taxes and fees FTW) plan is much better than what I've got now.

Thinking it'll probably be better to jump on board w/ them early though, as I'm sure the feel-good honeymoon they've got going on now will undoubtedly change as more people get on their service and servers....ultimately leading to increased prices before too long. Hopefully they'll offer a grandfather clause for the first wave of folks getting in on their pre-paid goodness...:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KevTN:
Vzw

We are looking at jumping ship. Right now they said they were going to change our plan this past Christmas when i got my daughters and wife new phones, but they havent. But i have had to fight with them about my upgrades so..Which bring me to the biggest reason is there customer service. My wife and daughter like iphones. So i went down one thursday a cpl of weeks before and got em each the black iphones. They were not turned on. My daughter mentioned to the wife she wanted a white one if we were going to get her a phone. No problem, so i thought. The next thursday i Took my recept and trucked down to the vzw store. The manager said that there would be a 50 buck restocking fee. After i gathered myself together he promply told me that the phone was considered used. It had not even broke the wrapping. After i promptly told him what i thought of his 50 bucks and yes i was loud enough that everyone in the store knew i only had the phone a week and it was not turned on nor was it open but yet he considered it used and was going to charge me 50 for one week...three people promptly walked out with me and said they were going somewhere else. Long story short. I ended up at another vzw store and went in there and asked what the policy was for this situation. "Managers discretion." And they changed it out for me. I was still pretty upset so i went back to store number one and stepped in the door. Repeated what the manager said and the situation to the whole store and let them know that another store and manager said it was up the manager for those decisions. In which i pointed the manager out and said what i thought of him and his decision making and that i will never step foot in the store again eventhough i have been with since they were Cellular One.

So...lol kinda childish but i had enough of them trying to jerk me around.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sgirard1991:
vzw

Personally I am sticking with VZW...

I have had bad experiences with Sprint, and US Cellular.. And AT&T I had in the past and the bill went to collections so I can't go back there, otherwise I would!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eman3316@optonline.net:
Pre-paid with an MVNO that uses AT&T towers. Your past AT&T problems will not matter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
Made the switch finally. About 2 weeks ago or so. Happy w/the Nexus 4 & T-Mobile service. So far all the areas I've been to I've gotten consistent service & data speeds have been better than what I expected. I must have good T-Mobile towers in my state. Now waiting for the new Nexus phone.

Oh & another thing that feels great is UNLIMITED EVERYTHING!! No more worrying about a stupid data cap. I leave my data on and use my phone with ease. I was always concerned about going over my data cap on Verizon/at&t. Not anymore. I barely need to use Wi-Fi.

For people thinking of jumping to T-Mobile, I advise doing research on the coverage in your state. Get real opinions from people who are on the carrier where you work and/or live.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droid316:
Wonder how coverage is for north east Ohio

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sgirard1991:
....true

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thank Me Later:
Fortunately I have family members and a few friends who are on T-Mobile. So I was able to get a real general idea of how service & data speeds were. It took a while but I was finally able to get rid of my S3 on Craig's list.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droid316:
I have been a 10 year Verizon customer and my contract is up first week of December.They don't let me keep my unlimited data, all I have to say is bye bye.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
You'll be outta contract but you'll keep your unlimited.

If you wanna buy a new device, you'll just pay full price for it and keep unlimited data.

Verizon can pull unlimited data anytime they want since you'll be outta contract, but as you say, if they do, it'll be Adios Amigos :)

I didn't have the unlimited option, so after 6 months and some high usage data bills, I paid an ETF of $325, ported to Tmo, and never looked back. My Adios Verizon is gonna and has already saved me a whole lotta money, and that's Always a good thing :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tyler.frost92:
If i can still continue to steal my "dumb phone's" upgrade, and switch it to my line and have unlimited data for 40 dollars a month, I will stay
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] googlelover:
I lucked out and got in on the 10 dollar a month unlimited data for my family plan, 2 phones with 1400 minutes and unlimited texting n data for 140 a month, Its the only reason I stay. If unlimited gets taken from me I'll be gone because the data prices are rediculous now!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kennedy87:
Getting tired on VWs BS but coverage is too good in North East.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] epagib:
+1

Verizon coverage is excellent. The problem is they know it!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eman3316@optonline.net:
Now being on a AT&T MVNO, I must say I have been more impressed with their coverage then with Verizon's in my area. I am more then pleased that I have left Verizon.

I don't know what bothered me more about them, the fact that their prices are ridiculous or they are so against their customers freedom to enjoy their device. They have gone out of their way to lock their devices and really took out the enjoyment of Android for folks like us. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if updates weren't released 6 months after everyone else if you are even lucky enough to get an update.

Verizon even managed to ruin the Nexus experience and everything that device stood for. Not allowing the use of NFC payments through Google Wallet even when a device fully supports it. These providers are really just a big bully and unless people take action and leave nothing will change and it will only get worse.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
I keep forgetting to mention in my posts, but one of the reasons I left Verizon (and there were a few) was because of how Easily they gave up All Our information to the NSA with their Blanket bs warrants, which is all part of the finger I feel Verizon is giving us.

Now I known that most likely the other Carriers also gave up customers records, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Julslol:
I'm personally not going to leave Verizon anytime soon, if I can keep my unlimited 4g the coverage is awesome and I get 30/20 dl/up pretty much everywhere I live. I drove from Wyoming to Maine and for most of the time I had 4g in the weirdest ****ing places.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droid316:
Same here if they let me keep my unlimited data after my contract is up in December I'll stay with them and pay the very high amount a month I pay $270.If not then cya.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] KSprec:
I've been with verizon for at least 8 years. I'm the only one on my contract that has Unlimited data since I keep buying phones on Craigslist. Don't think I'll be switching since it's given me great coverage, and none of the other companies have that great of service around here. But my house in particular get horrible service. Even on their map my house is the only one that won't get 4G. Oh well. I wish they'd stop with the data cap BS.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] omair2005:
What's the best att mvno? Straight talk just added att lte.. I was leaning towards xioami phones but they don't have lte so would T-Mobile be a better choice?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Flamingice1668:
Yeah, like some others have already mentioned, their service is too good to go to any other carrier... Unfortunate...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] epagib:
Plus for those of us who are still lucky enough to have the unlimited data plan...