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

[Justin Reiners]

Verizon service has been good for me. Using rooted droid 2 for internet as I
write this. Very happy. I always tether without the plan.

On Apr 8, 2011 9:54 PM, "Craig Wolf" <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> 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...
>
> Craig Wolf
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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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