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Verizon still has legacy unthrottled unlimited (kicked off after 200GB?) customers. I'm trying to figure out what I should do with 2 lines I don't want to affor

by j_s 9y ago

Verizon still has legacy unthrottled unlimited (kicked off after 200GB?) customers. I'm trying to figure out what I should do with 2 lines I don't want to afford anymore.

timmaah 9y ago
Sell them... (Though I'm not sure what it takes to do an assumption of liability for those unlimited accounts these days)
- xzel 9y ago
  This. Take a look at the listings for them on ebay; they're worth at least a grand. A buddy of mine bought one a few months ago and he's super happy with it. I wish I hadn't been a cheap college student and canceled mine a few years back.
  - mcappleton 9y ago
    Don't feel bad. It's just a matter of time before regular plans get data caps that high.
novia 9y ago
2 [unlimited] lines I don't want to afford anymore. My family was grandfathered in to the unlimited unthrottled Verizon plan, and while it still existed I was using a "dumb phone" without a data plan. After the unlimited plan was no longer on the market, I got a smartphone, and that somehow kicked the other 7 lines on my family plan off the unlimited plan that they were grandfathered into. In short, hey, can I pay you to use one of those spare lines?
karpodiem 9y ago
Had the same plan - moved to MetroPCS (T-Mobile's pre-paid network. Includes VoLTE/Wifi Calling/answering on other iOS devices) $60 unlimited. 30GB of data before speed throttling, and 8GB of hotspot data. Haven't hit the upper limit once of either metric in the time I've had it. I was paying $140ish a month with Verizon (included hot spot, which was an extra $30 a month), now I pay $60.
- j_s 9y ago
  That sounds like a great deal! I'm looking at Google Fi for two phones: one-time ~$1000 for two phones + $20+$15/month for unlimited voice/text + $10/GB which I plan to WiFi apart from maps.
throwaway40483 9y ago
I'm surprised Verizon hasn't "transitioned" these legacy accounts to a "newer, better and faster" (cough) accounts.. I presume there are some legal reason why they haven't done so yet?
- snuxoll 9y ago
  The amount of hell they would receive for doing so, T-Mobile got a large amount of flak for transitioning legacy customers to Simple Choice plans. Instead of incurring the PR nightmare that would be, Verizon is just making these plans unappealing with soft caps (they did this to force people off unlimited mobile broadband plans, the number of customers I had yell at me when I worked for a VZW call center because their internet connection was severly throttled was mind-boggling) and by refusing to give subsidized upgrades without changing to a newer plan.
- j_s 9y ago
  They try super-hard to do so every time there's a change on the account (probably 90%+ were lost when the "free phone" came with a new contract), and they've raised prices (+$20/line). They also instituted the 200GB (maybe 100GB) limit. http://www.droid-life.com/2015/10/08/verizons-20-unlimited-price-hike-more-details-about-who-it-impacts/ http://www.droid-life.com/2015/10/08/verizons-20-unlimited-p... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/11/these-cellphone-carriers-are-about-to-make-life-harder-for-grandfathered-unlimited-data-users/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/11... http://www.droid-life.com/2016/07/26/fyi-verizon-unlimited-data-plan-no-longer-unlimited/ http://www.droid-life.com/2016/07/26/fyi-verizon-unlimited-d...

by j_s 9y ago

Verizon still has legacy unthrottled unlimited (kicked off after 200GB?) customers. I'm trying to figure out what I should do with 2 lines I don't want to afford anymore.

timmaah 9y ago

Sell them... (Though I'm not sure what it takes to do an assumption of liability for those unlimited accounts these days)

xzel 9y ago
This. Take a look at the listings for them on ebay; they're worth at least a grand. A buddy of mine bought one a few months ago and he's super happy with it. I wish I hadn't been a cheap college student and canceled mine a few years back.
- mcappleton 9y ago
  Don't feel bad. It's just a matter of time before regular plans get data caps that high.

novia 9y ago

2 [unlimited] lines I don't want to afford anymore. My family was grandfathered in to the unlimited unthrottled Verizon plan, and while it still existed I was using a "dumb phone" without a data plan. After the unlimited plan was no longer on the market, I got a smartphone, and that somehow kicked the other 7 lines on my family plan off the unlimited plan that they were grandfathered into. In short, hey, can I pay you to use one of those spare lines?

karpodiem 9y ago

Had the same plan - moved to MetroPCS (T-Mobile's pre-paid network. Includes VoLTE/Wifi Calling/answering on other iOS devices) $60 unlimited. 30GB of data before speed throttling, and 8GB of hotspot data. Haven't hit the upper limit once of either metric in the time I've had it. I was paying $140ish a month with Verizon (included hot spot, which was an extra $30 a month), now I pay $60.

j_s 9y ago
That sounds like a great deal! I'm looking at Google Fi for two phones: one-time ~$1000 for two phones + $20+$15/month for unlimited voice/text + $10/GB which I plan to WiFi apart from maps.

throwaway40483 9y ago

I'm surprised Verizon hasn't "transitioned" these legacy accounts to a "newer, better and faster" (cough) accounts.. I presume there are some legal reason why they haven't done so yet?

snuxoll 9y ago
The amount of hell they would receive for doing so, T-Mobile got a large amount of flak for transitioning legacy customers to Simple Choice plans. Instead of incurring the PR nightmare that would be, Verizon is just making these plans unappealing with soft caps (they did this to force people off unlimited mobile broadband plans, the number of customers I had yell at me when I worked for a VZW call center because their internet connection was severly throttled was mind-boggling) and by refusing to give subsidized upgrades without changing to a newer plan.
j_s 9y ago
They try super-hard to do so every time there's a change on the account (probably 90%+ were lost when the "free phone" came with a new contract), and they've raised prices (+$20/line). They also instituted the 200GB (maybe 100GB) limit. http://www.droid-life.com/2015/10/08/verizons-20-unlimited-price-hike-more-details-about-who-it-impacts/ http://www.droid-life.com/2015/10/08/verizons-20-unlimited-p... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/11/these-cellphone-carriers-are-about-to-make-life-harder-for-grandfathered-unlimited-data-users/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/11... http://www.droid-life.com/2016/07/26/fyi-verizon-unlimited-data-plan-no-longer-unlimited/ http://www.droid-life.com/2016/07/26/fyi-verizon-unlimited-d...