RIP Verizon two-year plans

[TheSportsPredictor]

Pay for the phone full price or monthly, pick a monthly plan based on data:

Verizon ends two-year contracts with new plans

 

[LongTimeListener]

Verizon is the worst customer service I have ever encountered. And I've battled Comcast and the power companies plenty.

I wouldn't go back to those ****ers at half the price.

 

[93Devil]

I wonder if iPhones are not introducing new phones every two years.

The big draw was getting a new phone every two years. I wonder if iPhones are now meant to last longer?

 

[JohnHammond]

New iPhones come out every year, and iPhone is not the name of a phone manufacturer.

 

[Bradley Guire]

My wife is a manager at a T-Mobile call center, and the uproar over "buy a phone at full price" when they started that a few years ago was insane because people didn't realize that the providers subsidized the price of the phone. They really thought an iPhone cost $200. My mother couldn't grasp the concept no matter how many times we explained it. Now T-Mobile is going away from paying full price for a phone and trying to get you to lease a phone for a monthly fee, but you can trade in without worrying about having negative equity between a payoff amount and trade-in value. I'll go that route, because it's not like these phones are made to last for more than a few years.

 

[wicked]

I wonder if iPhones are not introducing new phones every two years.

The big draw was getting a new phone every two years. I wonder if iPhones are now meant to last longer?

iPhones can last quite a while. Apple doesn't want you to figure that out, lest you think you don't need the latest bells and whistles.

 

[93Devil]

We use our two 4s phones as basically iPods for our kid to use, and they are just about 4 years old. I would not want it as my everyday phone because the software has gotten better than its hardware, so its basically clunky as anything.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I still use a 4S and will until November when I'm eligible through Sprint for an upgrade. Then I'll grab whatever iPhone they have available for free. Whether that's the 5S or the 6S I don't give a ****. Basically, Verizon wants to get you addicted to the payment the way car leases do.

 

[BTExpress]

Basically, Verizon wants to get you addicted to the payment the way car leases do.

I dropped Verizon for Consumer Cellular (yes, I'm old).

Verizon asked why, and what they could do to get me back, and I politely explained, "Offer me a $35 monthly plan that has the talk and data I want." They can't (won't) do it.

 

[SnarkShark]

I switched to AT&T a while back and they switched me to one of these types of plans about six months ago. After I pay off the phone, my monthly bill is going to be significantly lower than it has ever been.