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That would be OK if my cellphone usage was "free". But it's not. I'm paying Verizon hundreds of dollars a month for me and my family. I wonder if an MVNO would

• TD-Linux 12y ago
  Well, it seems that Verizon is the only one doing it. The article mentioned that AT&T ran a pilot program and decided not to do it. So presumably any other US provider would be better than Verizon.
  • killface 12y ago
    yeah, but people will justify it with a hard-on for verizon's network. where somehow in a large city, not a single other provider gets acceptable signal...
• pde3 12y ago
  In the US, consider Credo Mobile or T-Mobile. Even AT&T discontinued this practice when called out on it, while Verizon's is flatly recalcitrant; their privacy policy says, "If you do not want information to be collected for marketing purposes from services such as the Verizon Wireless Mobile Internet services, you should not use those particular services."
• incongruity 12y ago
  Well, do you care enough to take your business elsewhere? That's really the last-ditch way for you to have any voice on this. For whatever it's worth, I left them recently for this very reason (your choice is yours, mine is mine, no preaching or judgement here either) – I ended up having a few minute conversation with the confused (but nice) call rep who didn't understand what they were doing but seemed to empathize as I explained it. Ultimately, will my explanation matter? Probably not, but it was all the power I felt I had, beyond cutting them off from my monthly payments. While still not trustworthy in my book, t-mobile is definitely an upgrade, at least in this regard.