Verizon won't activate it, but an active Verizon SIM would work on LTE, including VoLTE.
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Carrier At&t is clueless on how to respond to Verizon's unlimited data
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I have bad news for you.
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iPhone® 7 Plus 256GB - Rose Gold (AT&T)
Please note that this A1784 iPhone 7 Plus model is compatible with FDD-LTE bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 as well as TD-LTE bands 38, 39, 40, and 41. It is intended for use with AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States (it does not support CDMA networks such as those used by Verizon and Sprint), but it does support carriers in Canada, the UK. Australia, the EU, and just about everywhere else in the world except for China, Hong Kong, and Japan.
So not sure what Apple and AT&T reps told you but whatever they said its inaccurate.
This device does not have CDMA capabilities unfortunately.
FWIW, if you go to Verizon's main page, find the Unlimited deal ad, and click on See offer details, they say 22GB/line/month, not 22GB/plan/month (per what the rep told you).
So either their main ad is wrong, or the rep is wrong. Never say never on Verizon's ad not being wrong, but history has shown the reps are usually the wrong ones.
agreed, that was apple trying to save some $ with those intel chips.
Exactly!
They are certainly making plenty of money with the iPhone and can absorb the extra cost, but went with Intel for the GSM carriers.
I hear you, Im not a fan of that move either.
Its kinda nice that they upgraded all devices storage for free to 32GB/128GB/256GB but they ended up being cheap on the base-band chips
Not sure that you can blame Apple for branching out to a new supplier given the allegations against Qualcomm.
UGH! It is actually all good.. because I leveraged the Verizon deal to get a much better deal on my plan for AT&T.
Verizon offers unlimited tethering. The first 10GB is at LTE speed. After that it is 3G speed.
Not really sure what they mean with "3G" speeds.
If its what it is with their current throttling down to CDMA 3G speeds it will be down to 128kbps
I called the retention department and told them that I was leaving on March 4th unless they could give me a better deal. I was able to lower my bill from 130 to 80.
In the neighborhood of 128 - 144k. If they didn't do that. there would be numerous people abusing the network and treating their phone as if Verizon was the cable company.Not really sure what they mean with "3G" speeds.
If its what it is with their current throttling down to CDMA 3G speeds it will be down to 128kbps
Nice.
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Not blaming...but they certainly make enough profit on the phones to absorb the cost if they wanted to.
And the world continues to spin...
Not really sure what they mean with "3G" speeds.
If its what it is with their current throttling down to CDMA 3G speeds it will be down to 128kbps
I'm trying to remember, but didn't Verizon upgrade their EV-DO (3G) to Rev. A before moving over to LTE? If so, then the speeds can be a good amount better than around 128-144k, and basically up to 600Kbps-1,400Kbps download (bursts to 3.1Mbps), and 500Kbps-800Kbps upload (bursts to 1.8Mbps).
When the Iphone 7 launched, ATT was thrown off guard by T-Mobile's trade in promo. They had a slickly produced glossy handout on their DIRECTV/iphone trade in promo (sign up for DTV and trade in an older iPhone and get a free 7 -- meh). But after about 48 hours, they saved face (and customers) by matching T-mobile's trade in offer.
The rep at my local AT&T store showed me the literature for the revised promotion -- basically a hastily thrown together Word doc.
I imagine the same thing is happening now over unlimited data. Give it another day or two.
The rep at my local AT&T store showed me the literature for the revised promotion -- basically a hastily thrown together Word doc.
I imagine the same thing is happening now over unlimited data. Give it another day or two.
Just got off the phone with att's "retentions" department...long story short, basically they can't do anything for me so will be porting out come march 4th. Verizon, here I come!
Yeah, I just talked to AT&T Retentions as well. They don't give a crap about anyone. Been with them for 15 years, and they said all she can do is give me the unlimited but I have to sign up for directv. I said how is giving me that plan that is already there trying to keep me? She said there isn't anything else she can do. I said, then I will be leaving you guys with 3 lines. Ended that call with that.
Here I come Verizon!
Here I come Verizon!
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I currently have the AT&T unlimited plan because I have been grandfathered in, I think I am going to wait until the smoke clears to see what they do about this. I'm not going to jump ship at this very moment.
I currently have a mobile share plan with AT&T, 4 lines with 30gb of shared data plus 1 month rollover. The plan is $105.30 after discount, 1 $40 line access fee, 3 $15 line access fees, and 2 on AT&T next each with a $24.97 monthly pmt. So in total $270.84 per month after taxes and fees.
Would certainly love an Unlimited plan as we normally come close or go over the 30gb. Will monitor what AT&T does. They may lay low for a bit but once people really start switching to Verizon, they will have to do something.
Would certainly love an Unlimited plan as we normally come close or go over the 30gb. Will monitor what AT&T does. They may lay low for a bit but once people really start switching to Verizon, they will have to do something.
That's great! I'll verify and will port my 4 linesFWIW, if you go to Verizon's main page, find the Unlimited deal ad, and click on See offer details, they say 22GB/line/month, not 22GB/plan/month (per what the rep told you).
So either their main ad is wrong, or the rep is wrong. Never say never on Verizon's ad not being wrong, but history has shown the reps are usually the wrong ones.
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