Comments on: Sprint Starts Marketing Campaign to Encourage You to “Say No to Sharing”

By: Forward

Forward — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:25:00 +0000

I’m not too worried about the phone plans, but the take-home message “say no to sharing” is in step with the Ayn Randian, self-serving ideologies of the extremist holding America hostage right now, and I don’t know if that’s a coincidence or something cooked up in a stink tank.

By: juanmph

juanmph — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:29:00 +0000

I agree with you I am available for an upgrade but I am not going to do it because I love having unlimited data I also average around 10 to 15 gigabytes of memory every month because I like tethering my DROID RAZR and I plan on buying the RAZR HD soon even if its at retail price.

By: CDavisUnlimited

CDavisUnlimited — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:03:00 +0000

Couldn’t have said it any better. Who cares about 30 Meg downloads in Phoenix if I only get 50 K downloads on the rest of Verizon’s 3G network (which is most places). And if I really need 30 Meg downloads I’ll just use WiFi like EVERY other smartphone user on the planet, and with T-Mobile I can make free calls overs WiFi. I’ll let the sheep like masses get grossly overcharged by Verizon and I’ll live with speed in more places for a lot less money.

By: SolipsisticPsychologist

SolipsisticPsychologist — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Exactly. And if you switched to share your money plans and you are saving a little money now (and you are not an undercover Verizon shill posting lies on the Internet), well good for you. Me personally, well I’d rather pay a little extra for the freedom of not having to watch my data consumption like a hawk, divvy it up between other people on my plan, and rest easy knowing that whether I use 500mb a month or 5GB a month, it doesn’t matter one iota because I pay the same price either way. The same cannot be said for if you are on share your money data plans. So for me, in the long run, well I will still be saving money and have the peace of mind of not having to ration out my data, or pay ridiculous fees if I ever go over my allotment.
Plus, to me, it’s not as much about how much data I consume or how much I don’t. It’s about the very real fact that it’s not just about me and my data use or needs on a shared plan. It’s the fact that I have SHARE data now! So you may personally just use WIFI all the time, or just consume a small amount of monthly data. But you are now sharing a pool of data between at least one other person if not many more, and you may be fine with a couple of megabytes a month. But if your kids or wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend, decides to go bat sh!t crazy with your collective data that month, well they could easily eat your few megabytes along with the rest of your monthly allotment. I’m a very giving and generous person in life, but I personally don’t want to have to watch my data constantly, and make sure that the other people on my plan, are just using the agreed upon chunk of data they get each month and not cutting into mine. These share plans only benefit Verizon I believe, and if they benefit you, well you are the minority in the equation. I’m never coming off of unlimited, and if I’m forced to at some point, well Verizon better have their lawyers ready over me not paying my ETF, because mine are family, all three of them.

By: SolipsisticPsychologist

SolipsisticPsychologist — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:16:00 +0000

Where should they go? And how does a company have gender?

By: chris125

chris125 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:06:00 +0000

worst reception of all carriers? What are you smoking? They have the most coverage out of all the carriers and pretty sure that being able to use the phone is more important than how fast their data speeds are which even their lte smokes tmo speeds. You have no clue what you are talking about you spout the same ignorance on every site. 3 months ago it was how great verizon was and 3 months before that sprint, now it is tmo you claim is so great…

By: SolipsisticPsychologist

SolipsisticPsychologist — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:18:00 +0000

Hilarious commercial, and good for Sprint for not changing to share your money plans. I know this being there unique niche among the major carriers is their motivation not to become greedy b@st@rds, relatively speaking. But I’ll gladly champion any company that doesn’t only offer the shared garbage plans. Very appealing for when my contract is up, because I personally know I’ll get more than the one signal bar I currently get with Verizon. And considering I rarely ever see 4G turn on, on my phone, well won’t miss what I rarely get to enjoy and utilize, of course I still pay for all this shoddy service though. Here’s to hoping Sprint doesn’t change their minds at some point, or here’s hoping they don’t get as big as Verizon, and stop caring about customer satisfaction, therefore getting rid of unlimited.

By: Jeff Kerstetter

Jeff Kerstetter — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:58:00 +0000

I just switched from unlimited to a 6g share plan for the wife and I. Even with picking up a 4G hotspot for the house, I cut our bill by $30 per month. $80 per month if you factor in the additional fact that with the hotspot I was also able to cancel my home internet. We have never used over 5 gigs in any month, so despite all the bitching around here, Verizon’s shared data plan is great for a lot of people.

By: Core Rooted

Core Rooted — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:06:00 +0000

I remember last year (here in Phoenix), where we were all sorts of excited for TMO to release the HSPA+ upgrades… the days came and went and barely any boost in speed. Then, they released it and guess what? Again, barely any boost in speed. Went from 2.5/mbps to around 5~6/mbps. In fact, things got worse than that. Drops got more frequent and they actually introduced more dead spots than there were previously.

Now, it’s more than a year later and TMO still has yet to really improve speed here. Yeah, I may pay more for VZW, but my speeds are around 35/mbps down and 14~16/mbps a sec up. I seriously couldn’t wait any longer for TMO to drag their feet on getting a true 4g network up when VZW did just that AND then eclipsed them.

Granted, I abhor VZW and their crap business policies and general screwing of the customer, but when I’m getting good speed along with very few network drops, I find that a service I am willing to pay for. Now, I do tend to drive I-8 quite a bit. On my VZW phone, I get zero drops (occasionally I might drop to 1x in spots, but I have never completely dropped service). Same drive using TMO, over half the drive, I had no service. Same thing driving up the I-17 to Flagstaff. TMO drops constantly whereas VZW is strong signal the whole way.
As for battery draining? Huh… don’t know what device you have been playing with, but both my gNex and my Spectrum do just fine battery-wise when using LTE.

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:07:00 +0000

I would much rather have HSPA+ 42 on my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 than the battery draining LTE on Verizon’s very expensive network. Once T-Mobile releases LTE next year it will have fall back to HSPA+ 42 mbps or 21 mbps, better than falling back to EVDO 1.5 mbps (which Verizon uses). I’ll have high data speeds even if I’m out of LTE coverage. All that good stuff plus a cheaper bill and soon to have truly unlimited data. I plan to remain a loyal T-Mobile customer. Good luck paying $200/ month with Verizon.

By: JaQuez Avondre

JaQuez Avondre — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:30:00 +0000

First of all T-mobile doesn’t have sh*t on Verizon Wireless. VZW’s speeds blows T-mobile’s speeds out of the water. Also Verizon uses TRUE 4G LTE speeds. T-Mobile uses an advanced form of 3G called “HSAPA+”. WhenT-mobile gets their LTE network up and running, then we can see who’s better. Until then enjoy using your pathetic 3.5G network!

By: Lane252

Lane252 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:58:00 +0000

3 years from now new VERIZON COMMERCIAL: Now introducing the ALL NEW! UNLIMITED Data Plans

By: portaltonowhere

portaltonowhere — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:46:00 +0000

T-Mobile FTW!

By: Popdecool

Popdecool — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:31:00 +0000

Nice commercial, but Sprint was hands down the most god awful carrier. Calls got dropped all the time.

http://www.gossipbeast.com

By: yarrellray

yarrellray — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 06:39:00 +0000

Verizon is the WORST CARRIER in the update game and has the WORST reception/signal strength out of all carriers.