[olug] [OT] Cell phone carrier questions...

[Craig Wolf]

My wife and i have Droid phones on Verizon and while I love the phones, the service in our area sucks (West O').  When they switched to the Alltel towers, I basically lost service in my home and around it.  I am not sure anyone else is any better in my neck of the woods but that is my opinion...

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>>> "T. J. Brumfield"  04/08/11 8:57 PM >>>
That is true to an extent. My wife has a rooted Android phone with the
Cynanogen mod providing the wifi for this very email. However AT&T claims
they can tell when jailbroken iPhones do tethering and they force those
users into paid tethering plans. The assumption is they just target phone
users with massive uniterrupted blocks of data usage.
On Apr 8, 2011 4:11 PM, "Christopher R. White"  wrote:
> Also, for what it's worth, a rooted phone can be tethered without paying
for
> tethering as an option and then there is no cap. . .
> On Apr 8, 2011 4:10 PM, "Christopher R. White"  wrote:
>> From my experience with Verizon, the actual phone data plan is unlimited.
>> Tethered phones have a 2 gig cap strictly for tethering and the usb
> dongles
>> have a 5 gig cap. As for the 14 day try before you buy, there is no fine
>> print, just gotta haggle with the sales rep to say ok sometimes. . .
>>
>> Chris from Kearney
>> On Apr 8, 2011 3:52 PM, "Dan Linder"  wrote:
>>> I'm getting close to the end of my Sprint contract and I'm looking
around
>> a
>>> bit. (For what it's worth, I live in the Bellevue area.)
>>>
>>> I have some questions about peoples experiences with carriers:
>>> * My wife and I have been thinking about a Verizion Droid phone, but
I've
>>> heard that the data caps are kind of tight (5GB) if you use data a lot.
>>>
>>> 1: When I checked on line last night, I couldn't see the data cap
>> mentioned
>>> anywhere, even in the fine print. A forum post I found said that the
>>> Verizion data caps only apply to the USB modems, not the phones. Is that
>>> true?
>>>
>>> 2: Verizon has a "14 day" (
>> http://www.verizonwireless.com/ReturnPolicy.shtml)
>>> try-before-you-buy policy. Has anyone actually used this? Were you able
> to
>>> get out of a new contract, or is there some micro-fine writing I missed?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Dan
>>>
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