Pure Ignorance
I love all the complaining about the New VZW requirements for data. It really makes me laugh. What makes me laugh the most are the idiots that say it is Verizon greed, bad business, unethical, etc, etc, etc. Those who have play that argument are the ones that have no idea how the industry truly works.
First off...VZW, ATT, Tmobile, etc, do NOT make the phones. They only sell the service. So if the manufacturers dont make simple feature phones w/ qwerty keyboards, touchscreens, and all the fancy phone features, dont yell at the carrier. Yell at the manufacturers. The functions that those features are designed to support are data rich functions. So its not wonder the manufacturers dont wast their time and money making simple phones with th...
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First off...VZW, ATT, Tmobile, etc, do NOT make the phones. They only sell the service. So if the manufacturers dont make simple feature phones w/ qwerty keyboards, touchscreens, and all the fancy phone features, dont yell at the carrier. Yell at the manufacturers. The functions that those features are designed to support are data rich functions. So its not wonder the manufacturers dont wast their time and money making simple phones with th...
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nmconnexion said:
Nobody talks on the phone anymore. That is the nature of the business!!!
You're an idiot!
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I haven't had any customers mad over this. I show them the ones that do and don't need a data pack. Most of them have even thought about getting data already. The ones who don't want it, ended up getting the Razzle or Samsung Intensity.
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i totally agree with nmconnexion most of the customers complain about the data charges but end up taking the phone with the data anyway....people do not use thier phones like they used to....
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The thing is tho...
450 minutes still costs $40. If it was about people use minutes less so we charge less, then why hasn't the price of 450 minutes gone down?
I would accept this argument IF the lower end of prices went down as well. This is simply a response to T-Mobile's unlimited minute plans. As a whole its a way to pull people into higher price plans. Its alot easier to sell a $70 unlimited plan than it is to sell a $100. So the little they lose from the people willing to pay $100 is made up by the many who will go from $50 -> $70.
If it was truely about minutes, then 450/900 minutes would go down $10/month, as well as unlimited, to make room for the data plans... then "those few idiots who only talk" would actually save mone...
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450 minutes still costs $40. If it was about people use minutes less so we charge less, then why hasn't the price of 450 minutes gone down?
I would accept this argument IF the lower end of prices went down as well. This is simply a response to T-Mobile's unlimited minute plans. As a whole its a way to pull people into higher price plans. Its alot easier to sell a $70 unlimited plan than it is to sell a $100. So the little they lose from the people willing to pay $100 is made up by the many who will go from $50 -> $70.
If it was truely about minutes, then 450/900 minutes would go down $10/month, as well as unlimited, to make room for the data plans... then "those few idiots who only talk" would actually save mone...
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to:nmconnexion
I don't think that you really know how this business works. The manufacturers make phones what the wireless industry orders, not vice-versa. Also there many of us who just used the phone for talking. I personally don't care about texting, or going on the internet via the phone. I can bet that many people don't even use all the software many phones have to offer.
I don't think that you really know how this business works. The manufacturers make phones what the wireless industry orders, not vice-versa. Also there many of us who just used the phone for talking. I personally don't care about texting, or going on the internet via the phone. I can bet that many people don't even use all the software many phones have to offer.
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