<p>Verizon forced us off our data plan a number of years back, but I do not recall the circumstances. We do not have an issue as four family members do not come close to using the 4GB combined, except when we all travel together on vacation. Having just replaced three of the phones with the new 6, we saved a considerable sum taking advantage of the subsidized upgrade.</p>
<p>I don’t know about ATT but it seems Verizon allows to upgrade after 1 year when you buy the phone under 2 year contract. But I don’t see why I should upgrade the phone just after 1 year.</p>
<p>Both ATT & Verizon charge $40 per line. That’s really expensive for a family of 4 or 5 but I don’t know how to avoid that.</p>
<p>I need to call Verizon, I thought I had unlimited data plan but they keep sending me over data plan message.</p>
<p>How much for unlimited data plan?</p>
<p>The ATT unlimited data plan is a bit of a misnomer. You have no overage costs but the curtailed speed is brutal after 3G or 5G LTE. </p>
<p>Cool, if that question me, the truth I don’t know. That’s why I have to talk to them in person. Bill goes straight through to credit card.</p>
<p>E pluribus unum, but after several days of use of an iPhone 6 Plus overseas, the results are not particularly good. The phone is besieged by connection issues in all areas. Poor qualiy of the roaming calls is the biggest problem. A cheap local phone or an older iPhone can connect to the local carrier with little problems and with full bars. The new iPhone gets one to three bars in the SAME conditions. The cheap phone renders a crystal clear sound and does not disconnect. ATT blames the remnants of Odil or the local carrier … something that cannot be true given the use of different phones on the same network (roaming with ATT.)</p>
<p>My take is that there is something wrong with the hardware or the antenna. Either way, the current phone is rather useless for conversations using cellular. The current solution is to use wifi or data, and log on a VOIP service. Well, that is when wifi connects without a hitch … and that is not the case. </p>
<p>The other problems such as poor battery usage are typical IOS and iPhone, and not worth dwelling on. </p>
<p>That puppy will go back to Apple! </p>
<p>I sacrificed unlimited data to put my family on a shared mobile plan, which saved a lot overall.</p>
<p>This plan is not subsidized. But even before we made the switch, my wife decided to and still has her iPhone 4. She decided getting an ipad mini was a better alternative to continuing to upgrade her phone every two years. </p>
<p>I think the full freight plans could hurt cell phone sales. Even though it’s an a illusion that subsidized phones are cheaper, when you see sticker price you light decide to keep your phone for a year or two longer. </p>
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<p>I thought Verizon had a 10GB family plan for $100? No?</p>
<p>12GB for $110.
<a href=“Verizon gets in on the double-data action with own promotion - CNET”>http://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-gets-in-on-the-double-data-action-with-own-promotion/</a></p>
<p>"“As with AT&T, Verizon customers on the shared plans pay both a fee for the data as well as a separate access fee for each device on the plan, which can cost up to $40 per device.”" Add $160 to the $110 for four phones it what it sounds like to me.</p>
<p>So somehow today, my iPhone has no connection. I don’t know why, what I should I check. I’m unable to send text message even. I might have to call Verizon tomorrow.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle – at least you still have a land line! My son called from college ast night saying that the charger would not stay engaged in his new phone….mysteriously resolved.</p>
<p>I still remember living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the late 80s when our phone service went out. Non-doorman building, place service call from work, then having to some how meet the NY Tel guy, and hope that he could solve the problem. Of course, the equipment for a specific building was often not housed in the building, but instead in the brownstone a couple of doors down. How to gain access to that building? Or discovering that our phone lines were only accessible from across hall neighbor’s terrace! </p>
<p>The NY Tel guys would take their lunch breaks sitting in their repair trucks on street corners. I went from one to next ‘knocking’ on trucks trying to find our repairmen. Amusing in hindsight but would blow a gasket today if forced to undergo such an experience in order to have phone service.</p>
<h1>Bendgate</h1>
<p>Has this happened to any of you?</p>
<p>CT, I always have landline. Now I have a reason. I never had problem with cell phone before.</p>
<p>@emenya – no Bendgate but I have never carried the phone in my pocket. I am carrying it around the house in a way I never used to as I find the phone such an improvement on the three year old model that I am using it more. I need to break that habit as there is no need to be continually connected. </p>
<p>@DrGoogle – the series of weather-related power outages in CT two-four years back had us all digging out those old phones that do not require electricity—only to discover that the phone lines were also down. Hope your phone mystery is resolved as quickly as my son’s was last night.</p>
<p>I cancelled my land line and replaced it with internet phone. It only costs $3.98 for the FCC each month. I bought $100 device from this company to have internet phone.</p>
<p><a href=“http://ooma.com/[/url]”>http://ooma.com/</a></p>
<p>I still have a landline, but more often I’ve had to use my cell when the landline goes down than the other way around. </p>
<p>I’m probably the last generation when a phone (landline) number was tied to a location. For my kids, phone numbers are tied to people. They’ll likely have the same number their whole lives–like their names. </p>
<p>Well, I need the landline to call the cell phone when I can’t remember where I left the cell phone.</p>
<p>(My landline is needed for the internet anyway- I don’t have cable. But I just have voice mail hooked up and I don’t ever answer the landline.)</p>
<p>Well my phone is back. I think something strange happened today, I finally powered it down and it came back.</p>