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i still don't understand
By darckhart on 7/5/2011 8:50:44 PM , Rating: 2
i still dont understand the point of advertising BLAZING 4G LTE speeds and SUPER AWESOME SMARTPHONES that can call, email, watch hulu, post pics to fb, ALL AT THE SAME TIME, if there are gonna be these DAMN DATA CAPS. What am i gonna do for the last 10 days of the month?

RE: i still don't understand
By amanojaku on 7/5/2011 9:01:54 PM , Rating: 5
Pay the overage fee, or bump your plan up to the next tier. You must have flunked "Brain-Dead Consumer School." Gentlemen from the reprogramming squad will be over shortly.

RE: i still don't understand
By darckhart on 7/6/2011 2:31:16 AM , Rating: 2
I wonder at what point the marketing took away your ability to see through the smoke. overselling service to generate enough revenue to back build a network and then imposing limits when they can't quite meet demand. i'm glad you enjoy paying $80/10gb and overage fees of +$2/gb. or maybe you just decide not to use that LTE phone to its fullest (despite paying the premium to have it) to stay under your cap. I would say brain dead consumer school has worked very well on you.

RE: i still don't understand
By Solandri on 7/6/2011 5:02:37 AM , Rating: 4
That too is your choice. If you think Verizon's prices are too expensive, switch to a cheaper carrier like Sprint. If enough people did that, Verizon wouldn't be able to charge prices as high as it does. As long as people grumble and complain, but at the end of the month they pay Verizon, nothing will change. Your role in the market is to make choices which save you money, not to sit in your couch and complain on web forums about why you should be able to save money without doing anything.

The overages I agree are ridiculous. The carriers should be required to automatically bump you up one plan tier for just that month if you happen to go over. Not charge you something ridiculous like $0.002 per kb ($2097 per GB). That ranks right up there with usury and inkjet printer ink prices on the immorality scale.

RE: i still don't understand
By Jeffk464 on 7/5/2011 11:00:12 PM , Rating: 3
:) I heard the LTE is so fast you can hit your data cap in something like 15 minutes, awesome.

