Agree. I waited over a year after 4GLTE launched here to get a 4g phone and when I did, it came off Ebay. Still have that phone...used PDAnet to tether the old phone ; went a different route on this phone cause I knew i'd be exceeding USB speeds pretty easily. :)
----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Hohhof via Af To: af@afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] i've never found an answer to this....cellular What I think the cellcos (especially Sprint) do badly is not explain to the people with 3G devices that they need to upgrade them to 4G for the higher speed, even if that loses you a grandfathered plan. I believe the transition to 4G/LTE has actually made 3G perform worse. I'm not sure why, maybe they take spectrum away from 3G at the towers and give it to 4G. But people don't understand this, all they see is their speeds are in the toilet, so the last thing they are going to do is buy a new device and sign a new contract with the company that's responsible for their crappy service. At a minimum, they should be informing their customers of this. Like we sometimes have to tell people with a 10 year old computer and a 10 year old router that they need to upgrade. But really, they should have some kind of program to market the 4G upgrade to existing 3G customers with come kind of discount that encourages people to upgrade and stay customers. Instead, I think they lose customers to another cellco (or to a WISP!), because the customer thinks the cellco just has crappy service. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wright via Af Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:20 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] i've never found an answer to this....cellular You'd wind up pissing off a lot of legacy users and creating more bad press than it's worth. Chris Wright Velociter Wireless -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-bounces+chris=velociter....@afmug.com] On Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller via Af Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:52 PM To: af@afmug.com; memb...@wispa.org Subject: [AFMUG] i've never found an answer to this....cellular Ok, so, when you have an "unlimited card" and you're lucky to never have purchased another device, and it's still unlimited, why can't / why DOESN'T the cellular company just end your unlimited option and force you onto something else? Is it a billing issue? Something their systems can't handle? I've always wondered why that is. Surely it's not something "legal", unless it's the fact you signed a contract stating this is the plan i want, and they can't change the plan off what you signed up for? (hey! that makes sense...actually) Thoughts? I guess they could say we're no longer offering that plan and you must sign up for a new plan or your phone will be terminated? Too many people on old plans to take that risk?
