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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    That is my general thinking, though I do try to consider the possibilities from those who say it might. There even are people so adamant about unlimited data making a comeback, they say things like, "Unlimited Data is the future" Maybe the waaay future, though not anytime soon. Although if it were, I wouldn't expect it to be below $300 monthly, which if Verizon were to implement, it likely would get most unlimited data customers onto the per gb data plans.

     

    I'm still hoping Verizon will lower the per gb data rate down to $5 per gb on its mid level plans, and $3 per gb on its upper level plans. 15gb for $75 monthly, 50gb for $150 monthly, and so on. Along with a reduction to the per line cost under these "bucket-style" plans, down to $10 each. I have an idea for what I envision Verizon could do with an allin-style leasing plan.

     

    BTW, did Sprint get rid of their All-in plan, or was that just promotional?

    I think the all-in plan was replaced with family. Then they killed family in favor of the unlimited single line and data share plans. I think the carriers should waive the access fee for the first device and charge for devices 2-10. Also I like what VZW is doing with the $20 access fee instead of $40.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    That was an interesting read, including the comments. Seems most people there who have it, are keeping it. Makes me wonder if Verizon may eventually bring it back, but at a much higher price, then force those who've been grandfathered onto it for years to pay the new, much higher price.

     

    Back in the 2000s before unlimited voice was offered by the national carriers except for Nextel, which offered it for $100 monthly, Verizon offered a 6000 minute plan for $300 monthly. I'm suspecting Verizon might price unlimited data at that rate, figuring very few people will keep it then, or even sign up for it, yet by bringing it back in some form will somehow "redefine" the value of unlimited data.

     

    However, I only say this based on the possibility of what if those who claim unlimited data will make a comeback on Verizon and AT&T, is true. It'll likely cost at least that, per line, and no sharing of course.

    I highly doubt that VZW will bring back unlimited data. What I can see them doing is offering more GB at their current pricing but unlimited data is not coming back. In fact if Sprint and T-Mobile were as big as the big 2 they wouldn't be offering unlimited either.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    That is a hard claim to support. If you have a good app or service people will use there data to get to it. If you have a copy cat service that offers only a marginal improvement on existing services then people might weight that marginal improvement against the marginal value of using a service that doesn't use their data. On the other side of the coin the carriers have much higher capex built into providing a good network experience and innovating with the network when compared to that capital costs developers tend to face. That innovation needs to be paid for and it is a good thing that carriers make profits from improving there network, as it encourages them to keep doing it.

     

     

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    Well maybe the service like Pandora, Netflix, etc should charge the ISPs for their users to access their services. These companies have cost to like the bandwidth to stream the content.

     

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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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    That is far from true. Innovation will continue and what you seem to forget is all of the capex intensive innovation on the side of the carriers. How many major network upgrades have there been in the last 7 years? The four major carriers alone are looking at spending 25 billion on capex this year. They have to be able to monetize that or all the advances we have seen in pushing the networks to improve will end. Remember two of the four carriers haven't been able to monetize the capital spends yet.

     

     

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    I'm talking about from the development side of things. When you have apps and services that's getting special access (not counting against your cap). If and when new services are available users aren't going to want to try them out because it will count against the cap.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Come down south a bit you will see. Also Verizon has band 4 all over the place I can go from Gainesville to Orlando and be on band 4 at least 50% of the time. Even small towns like belleview have plenty of band 4.

     

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    I'll be heading down to Orlando Sunday to hit Universal for Halloween Horror Night so I'll keep my eyes to the sky and on the road lol.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Only att & lots of Verizon. No S ot Tmus. Verizon's new set up looks very similar to sprint to the point that I mistook it for a Spark tower. 6 panels with rrus attached to the back.

     

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    All VZW setups here in Jacksonville has ground mounted radios. Also they claim to have band 4 XLTE but I haven't seen any changes of their hardware.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    I talked with some Betacomm folks that worked on a DAS system for all of the carriers at my workplace and they mentioned AT&T has a set budget and often hit the budget before year's end and they stop all projects, even maintenance for their sites. It is interesting that they seem to be getting the most attention in Jacksonville, though. I believe they have a monopoly on the cellular frequency here. I have never been able to connect to Verizon's 850 1x/3G signals here. Only 1900.

    Yes AT&T does have all the cellular in this market. To me AT&T has better overall coverage and that is why. I think that AT&T are doing all their upgrades that they should have done last year because for the first half of this year I didn't see any work of theirs going on.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    I too got the apple itch. Thats why i bought a ipad mini 4 and i dont regret it.

     

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    I've recently received an iPad mini 3 to place orders for customers. I also won a iPad mini 1 for being 8 year with no work related accidents. Anyways I just can't get into tablets anymore. I think I'll wait until my wife gets her 6s plus before I make my final decision.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    Great. Better battery life, more features better rf in very band(hard to believe )+ CA, s pen, samusng pay, gorgeous screen, faster wireless charging, better front and back cameras and camorders, fingerprint scanner and even better Bluetooth. Im not complaining. I only miss those front speakers and all of the lte bands the nexus 6 had. Well that and updates

     

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    For some odd reason I want to try an iPhone 6s plus. When I went to buy my Nexus 6 I was tempted to buy a 6 plus. I'm getting that Apple itch again.

     

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    Network Vision/LTE - Jacksonville Market (including Gainesville/St. Augustine/Ocala)

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    4x2 MIMO and wider channels allows the noise to be drown out into sub channels, I believe. So that's why a wide LTe channel like T-Mobile's 20MHz is still usable at those levels.

     

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    If carriers had 40mhz of 700mhz spectrum deployed with 4x4 MIMO their coverage would be amazing. As far as having wider channels that's definitely true because when I'm connected to 88ers the signal strength is very close to band 25 LTE.

     

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