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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by RaptorCLS
RULE OF THUMB FOR CELL PHONE BUYERS...why do some not get this?

Pick what works for you.....all that matters is where you are going to be and who has the best coverage for YOUR area. Doesnt matter the size of the company, subscribers, etc....you're not planning on buying stock are you..
I could gone on about this topic...but the above covers the main shizznit..haha
smartest thing said in this thread so far... hahahha
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Old Nov 24, 2004 | 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by jrod178
That wasnt the point. It was an example of the price of data for verizon compared to the price of data for a house. The point was not a lot of people are going to be willing to spend 150 a month for a cell phone with data service.

THere are plenty of people who would spend that amount for a wireless phone and data...average techie or uses a blackberry and wireless phone..(usually seperate)

avg calling plan 60 bucks
blackberry plan 50 bucks..

a few more bucks a month and instead of having the blackberry they can go online from a laptop or the new lg8000 phone at a faster rate of speed and do more things...

I wish I could pull out some internal info..but it is not worth getting fired...but u'll see plenty of people will spend money on it...if you want something bad enough u'll convince yourself u'll need it and u'll purchase it..just like a honda vs an acura sure there are speed diffrences but the whole idea behind it is a vehicle...
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Old Nov 24, 2004 | 06:58 PM
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sorry but the majority of blackberrys are paid for by corporations, there is no way they will pay 100 a month for everyone to have high speed ev-do, and the government employees sure as hell arent going to get it. my department head bitches now because the blackberries cost so much for everyone and were talking a department that has earnings in the billions.
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Old Nov 24, 2004 | 07:03 PM
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everyone just wait a couple weeks and Verizon is going to do something crazy with their calling plans.
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by jrod178
sorry but the majority of blackberrys are paid for by corporations, there is no way they will pay 100 a month for everyone to have high speed ev-do, and the government employees sure as hell arent going to get it. my department head bitches now because the blackberries cost so much for everyone and were talking a department that has earnings in the billions.

First of all if you think goverment, and big corporations are even paying anything close to what a conusmer is paying your nuts...

they have goverment discounts, goverment worker discounts, they have b2b discounts 1-100, 500-1000,1000+.....

That is why evdo is not alot of money...they are actually giving out free trials to alot of corporations to see if their workers will get use out of them, and if they do then it is worth it.
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Berner
everyone just wait a couple weeks and Verizon is going to do something crazy with their calling plans.
Do you know this for sure or are you just guessing

Verizon plans are so old and tired, its about time they do something about it.
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Berner
Quick Facts About ‘new’ Cingular

Employees: 68,000 (VZW has 46,000)

Subscribers: 47.6 million (just 3 million ahead of VZW)

Markets served: Went from 83 of top 100 markets, to 100/100 (VZW 98/100)

Direct Stores: 2,745 (expected to close at least 500)
Originally Posted by Berner
• We offer unlimited calls to 40 million VZW customers – 1 out 4 wireless users is a VZW customer!"

Thats so DUMB, Look above SUBSCRIBERS 47.6 Million, it says CINGULAR has 3 Million more Customers than VERIZON, and than the second fact in the second quote, says they offer Unlimited Calls to 40 million VZW Customers,

every one of these facts is either pulled out of context, outta there ass, or they have been correctly worded, or one sided.

I myself dont like either of these companies, and love T-Mobile but you dont seem to have Verizon with a full comparison with each company, like T-Mobile won JD Powers awards too, whats funny is how companies show they got awards 32430832948930 years ago, when the fact is we are in 2004 and what we want to see is current and recent awards, because things change from time to time, at once some companies sucked and are great now, and vice versa.

I hate that shit about how Dell Claims to win so many awards for years, but there service has gotten worse . How BMW Keeps winning same damn awards from Car and Driver and people are starting to open eyes and pick other more reasonable choices.

I think I wrote too much and its late

Good Night, have a great Turkey Day, and do listen to Adam Sandlers Turkey Song, no thanksgiving is good without it
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by jrod178
no one is going to buy ev-do if its 100 a month. mercedes charge more then their competitors?? uhh, first mercedes charges about the same for their cars as their competitors do, M5 and E55 and RS6 are about the same. That comment makes no sense, and mercedes quality sucks in the last five years, so thats a terrible example. Their service centers suck, everything. Verizon and their employees need to stop thinking they are untouchable and their phones and service is 100x bigger and better and they are the best and no one can touch them. They are no microsoft, or even closely resemble a monopoly. They dont offer a unique product, they offer cell phone service, along with a bunch of other companies. In certain markets are they the best provider? Yes, in certain makets are they the worst? Yes. Bottum line is their data plans are priced so high it turns a lot of people away from them and by raising the prices, even if the service is faster it will turn more people away.
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by mikeymobiles
First of all if you think goverment, and big corporations are even paying anything close to what a conusmer is paying your nuts...

they have goverment discounts, goverment worker discounts, they have b2b discounts 1-100, 500-1000,1000+.....

That is why evdo is not alot of money...they are actually giving out free trials to alot of corporations to see if their workers will get use out of them, and if they do then it is worth it.
We should make a poll in off topic who would pay 100 a month for cell phone data service and see how many people say yes, i would be suprised if it was more then 5.
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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by GoDucksCLSPride
Do you know this for sure or are you just guessing

Verizon plans are so old and tired, its about time they do something about it.
i know this for sure. and who the hell said anythign about data for $100 a month? from what i hear its prob going to be about half of that.
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