Reply With QuoteYou will be grandfathered on the 4gb/$30 plan for as long as you don't upgrade. Once you upgrade using your subsidy. You will be forced to a tiered shared data plan.
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Phone Expert
I've seen the news that the grandfathered unlimited data plans are going away. I have 2 smartphones on a 2 line family plan, with unlimited data on both lines. We rarely use more than 2GB per line per month. If I switch both lines to the current 4GB/$30 plan, do y'all think those will be grandfathered? That would allow me to see if the new family data plan would work for me. Thanks!
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You will be grandfathered on the 4gb/$30 plan for as long as you don't upgrade. Once you upgrade using your subsidy. You will be forced to a tiered shared data plan.
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Yup. I saw an article after I posted that indicated that upgrading to 4G will require moving to a shared tiered data plan, regardless of your current plan. And we're not eligible for NE2 until October. Bummer.
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I am unfamiliar with the NE2 discounts, so I'm not sure if that means your upgrade date is tied to the NE2 eligibility date or not. But if you're eligible for an upgrade now, I'd seriously consider upgrading to LTE phones now. But since we don't know when these changes will take place or what form they will take, maybe it's safe to wait until October.
Phone Expert
According to a USA Today article, everyone will be moved to a tiered shared data plan if/when they upgrade to 4G. It won't matter if your current plan is unlimited or not. The article implied, but didn't directly state, that if you stay with a 3G only device, you'll be able to keep your current plan. So switching to a tiered plan now won't help.
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However he doesn't need to upgrade to a tiered plan now. All he needs is a 4G LTE phone to activate on his current line. Also Verizon has issued a statement concerning the comments made.Originally Posted by echampio
http://news.verizonwireless.com/news...a-pricing.html
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Does Verizon even care whether a user gets his/her data from 3G towers or from LTE towers? Ostensibly they know whether the phone is 3G or 4G. But 4G only happens when there is a nearby LTE tower and a 4G phone, in the same way that a user receives 3G only if there is 3G reception.
As far as I know, a user can buy a 4G phone, activate it online (or by *228) and then merrily march on with voice and data plans intact and unchanged. Is there any indication (on the monthly bill) that the phone has been operating on 4G?
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No, if I remember correctly, you can't use *228 to activate LTE phones. But I believe Verizon's reasoning is that LTE will be active across their entire footprint in the near future, sometime in 2013. So anybody buying a 4G/LTE capable phone will be on LTE as soon as it's active in their neighborhood, which will relieve pressure off of their 3G network. So imo, I think that their reasoning is it's more important to get customers on 4G/LTE phones than whether or not that customer is actually accessing 4G/LTE at the moment.
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