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And off to sprint I go. Later.

With this and every other way places screw customers who stay, looks like I will be sticking with my current phone until it completely dies since I won't get a deal even close to what I have.

ya my wife has wanted us to get off verizon for awhile now so now we'll probably drop them the contract runs out.

I love paying 20 bucks a month for a data plan that I use maybe 5% of

Well, that's bullshit.

Which providers still offer unlimited? Any?

Sprint is the way to go. I worked with cell phones all the way thru school. Sprint has the unlimited data, good phones, and lowest prices. Not the best service 100% of the time, but I can live with that.

Verizon is the last national carrier to charge for an upgrade. Sprint and AT&T charge more than Verizon. I don't see anything wrong with a tiered program for data usage. Customers with the huge data downloads should pay for what they use.

So bait and switch is all good and fair? I pay $30 a month for unlimited data from comcast at home, plus another $30 for unlimited with Verizon. Once people switch to 4g and realize they have close to cable modem speeds to DL and start watching movies and using their phones for more than facebooking, it is easy to go over 2gb. All this bullshit about only 2% of the users come close to 2gb usage is from an article that is a year or 2 old and only dealt with 3g speeds. I hit about 1.7gb/month and that is on 3g just mostly surfing, with a phone that is dying. Once I switch to 4g I can see how it could easily go to 4 - 6gb/month usage if not more. Verizon currently has a commercial with a kid live recording his coach giving a speech to the team. That 5 minute clip would probably be about 750 mb upload at a minimum, that kid just used almost half his usage in 5 minutes.

These companies are pushing people to use the technology and then they want you to take it up the ass to pay for it.

The other BS answer is that Verizon is the last to charge for an upgrade. From other people I've talked to, those upgrade charges are waived by the carriers if you ask for it. Sprint is looking more and more like a viable option. Plus they typically have some of the better Droids.

So you never expect anyone to keep their word or honor their contracts?

I've finally met someone more cynical than myself and it scares me.

Wow. This post if just full of wanting your cake and eating it too.

First, wireless data is more expensive than cable delivered data. So you can't compare the two.

Second, there is a cost associated with building out these data networks. Verizon is spending like crazy to expand 4G coverage. Plus their usage continues to increase as more subscribers come aboard. Once the 4G capable iPhone lands you will see a crush of new 4G subscribers. All this means bandwidth, coverage, etc. Don't you remember the stories from a couple of years ago about AT&Ts network in Manhatten?

Third, you do have the option to go to another carrier. That is what is great about the free market. However, remember, you usually get what you pay for. Sprint is cheap for a reason. Their coverage absolutely sucks. I know a guy that got smartphones for his entire family last summer from Sprint. He took them home. They couldn't even get a regular cellular signal (let alone data) in their house. They live in Madison Heights!! Edit: within an hour he drove back up to the Sprint location and returned the phones.

All this whining just shows how spoiled people are. Did you really think wireless data would be unlimited for $30 forever?!? That is lunatic thinking.

Are you talking about the $10 per line charge? Really? You are complaining about that? I pay $80 for a family plan, then $10 for the second line. That is a heck of a deal if you ask me. (this doesn't include the data plans, FYI).

Really?

"Plus, you can bet they'll charge you a phone access fee per phone like they currently do for shared minutes to use that shared data you bought."