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http://news.yahoo.com/verizon-draws-fire-for-monitoring-app-usage--browsing-habits.htmlquote:The company this month began offering reports to marketers showing what Verizon subscribers are doing on their phones and other mobile devices, including what iOS and Android apps are in use in which locations. Verizon says it may link the data to third-party databases with information about customers' gender, age, and even details such as "sports enthusiast, frequent diner or pet owner." Your taste in porn is the new oil!
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It just blows my mind that deep packet inspection is a thing to opt out of. The fact that they are interpreting things as "this guy is a pet owner" would imply that some random Verizon guy is aggregating this data and could stumble upon say, the medical records of someone he knows. Sure, they could go out of their way to do it before, but now it's like, someone's *job*.
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Oct 18, 2012 04:35
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Finally today, I got my boss and I approved for company provided smartphones (we're the IT department and have had to use our own poo poo for three years, despite being at a fortune 500). Only problem is they have to be Verizon, and our purchasing department is trying to cap the on-contract price at $50. As you could imagine, this limits us to some absolutely horrid phones that I don't want to be stuck on for the next two years to do all my work. Does anyone know if I can realistically negotiate the contract prices with Verizon? I notice Amazon sells the Droid DNA for a subsidized $50 but it's $200 at Verizon's site. I think if I could pick any phone for us it'd probably be the Razr HD Maxx but the site says it's sold out.
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Mar 7, 2013 23:52
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I got approved for work phones some months back, then "unapproved", now approved again. I can pick any phones on the Verizon site that are $100 or less with contract. - I'm figuring Galaxy S3 is the best bet for myself? There's the Razr HD and Razr M but I sort of hate Motorola. - Then I have to pick a phone for an unsavvy coworker, I guess the iPhone 4S... - Finally my boss has bad eyesight and his personal phone is a Note, I can either get him an S3 (probably will), or that weird-rear end LG Intuition if he insists on something Note-size. Is that sound reasoning? Am I missing some promotion where I can get a better phone for $100 in the cart?
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Jun 11, 2013 16:55
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compton rear end terry posted:Now that I consider it, it's probably cheaper to get the usb bit replaced than the screen. I may just go with that since the crack isn't even in the viewing area of the screen, it's by the bezel. I had this place fix the charge port on my Samsung Galaxy S II, they did fine work for $35: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-usb-port-repair/
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A year back I set our work up with some emergency phones in case our VoiP system goes down. They used to be Verizon and we paid like $50 a month for basic voice service on each. I switched them to an MVNO called TalkForGood which give me a nice $6 each plan. Fast forward, TalkForGood goes out of business 6 months ago and makes no notification to me. I find out now, no problem, I'll switch the phones to PagePlus. PagePlus tells me they can't activate any of the 10 phones because the MEID are "still activated with TalkForGood". Dude, even their website doesn't exist any more. Are these permanently bricked?
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Jun 12, 2014 20:39
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We have a corporate Verizon plan with about 40 phones, and only 20 of them still in contract. I was tasked with converting us all to a different provider like T-Mobile because of how expensive/crappy Verizon is in Boston compared to them. With Verizon phasing out contracts though, it might be worthwhile to stick around. Does anyone know how this is supposed to work? Can I get our off-contract phones reduced in rate immediately? I'm waiting to hear back from our account rep but I'm wondering if there's an optimal way to go about this.
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Aug 17, 2015 23:39
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Like I was saying, about 40 smartphones that people use casually. A handful of people regularly need to roam to other countries or use tethering. We fluctuate between $4000-$6000 a month for the bill, so between $100-$150 per phone which is pretty steep especially with half the phones off-contract. The service isn't terribly spotty, it just isn't quite as solid as T-Mobile. I have a T-Mobile personal phone and a Verizon work phone so I can compare. T-Mobile is doing stuff like a small business plan with 10 lines of 10gb data each for $240 a month total, and paying ETF. That seems pretty insane if I can apply it to some/all of these lines. Well, here is the summary bill if you want to make sense of this madness. Much appreciated! 
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Welp, just heard back...Verizon Business Account Rep posted:The new Verizon plans with installment payments are for consumer accounts only. The business accounts are not affected by those changes. All existing contracts remain the same. There is no option today to convert them to anything else. Once a given line’s contract expires, the service for that line continues on a month–to-month basis and can be terminated at any time with no early termination fees.
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Yeah they'll give me the same plan for 40 lines that was $6000/mo with Verizon for $440/mo, and credit all the ETFs to our bill. The Tmo biz guy said that all the iPhone 5's on Verizon are network unlocked and I can just pop a Tmo SIM into them. I know that's the case with iPhone 6 but he says Galaxy 4 and iPhone 5 and newer can all do it. Is that true?
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Not wireless but this seems like the best place to ask. I have a relative who is poor and FIOS is her only option for internet. What modem should I get her so she can avoid the monthly rental charges? I'm finding a lot on eBay/Amazon but all sorts of different revisions and I figure someone here probably has a bundle with them and has done something like this. Here's a couple I'm seeing in much different price ranges: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0145REEA0/ http://www.ebay.com/itm/Verizon-Fios-Cable-Modem-Wireless-Router-Actiontec-MI424WR-Rev-I-/121829434173
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Rye Bread posted:Fios doesn't really have modems in the traditional sense. They install a box on the outside of your house, and then you can have a coax connection which would go to one of those 2 devices/routers, or they can activate the rj45 connection and run a cat6 to an existing router (which is what I did). That second option eliminates the possibility for on demand and such if she is also using them for tv though. Oh, so I can just ask them to bring in a cat 6 and let me figure the rest out myself and they won't charge the extra $10/mo? Thanks then, I'll give that a shot.
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Krakkles posted:If I move my Verizon number to google voice, is there anything I need to watch out for? Can I still use iMessage on my iPhone with that same number? It blows on iPhone, I tried it with two employees and it was so bad they both had to port it back out. You have to use the Google Voice app to call/text every time or the wrong caller id will be passed. Allegedly if you can jailbreak it then there's istore purchases that'll let the native call/text apps do so, but it's all a poo poo show if you're not on Android.
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Lowen SoDium posted:It's a lesser poo poo show on Android, but it's still a poo poo show. You still need the Google Voice app for it to call out using your Google Voice number (unless you want to use Hangouts to make VoIP calls), but you use Hangouts for SMS and MMS messages for your Google Voice number and you use Messenger or something else for your cell phones SMS and MMS messages. I've been doing that for years, I'm fine with it because I know what I'm doing by now, but it's cute that Google explains none of this whatsoever to people.
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Feb 26, 2016 15:58
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Does anyone here work for Verizon? We have 40 phones all on a corporate plan and average $120/mo each even though they're all off-contract. I want to find some friggin' way to bring these costs back to reality. Edit: Seriously, like I'll fire our account rep and give all our business to you if you can un-gently caress these charges.
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Mar 18, 2016 22:27
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PMed you, thanks!
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Mar 21, 2016 00:29
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I'm floored that they outright said the T-Mo doesn't charge anything. You'd think they'd have just excluded them from the sheet. Even funnier that they include themselves in "other carriers".
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Late to the game posted:I highly recommend the Nexus 6P on Verizon(if you're stuck on a plan). I am stuck in a contract with Verizon and my phone decided to bite the dust a few weeks ago. I knew I didn't want to buy another "Verizon" phone because I am switching to a different provider in the summer so the newest nexus products were perfect. With a Verizon Nano Sim I just popped it in and it works perfectly. It is awesome not having any bullshit Verizon apps and having the latest updates first. Seconding this, I used a Note 4 for two years on Verizon and switched to T-Mo. Even though all of Verizon's phones are supposed to be "unlocked", with a T-Mo SIM everything was busted, no data and voice at the same time, even loving touch tones didn't work. Now I switched to a Nexus 6p, the fingerprint unlock on it is great, Google Voice triggers even when the phone is asleep and across the room so I can use it like one of those Alexa things, and somehow the battery is much better too, probably because it actually gets Android updates.
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