macflauaus
join:2005-10-08
Nashville, IL
| Is Switching Useless Now?
I'm currently on Verizon EVDO and the constant cap worry is killing me. I know that Alltel has no caps (as of yet) and is starting to move over to Rev. A, granted it probably wouldn't get here any time soon.
But with Verizon buying Alltel, would it essentially be useless to switch to an EVDO card if I want to get away from caps? |
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Max Signal
Premium
join:2008-03-07
Buffalo, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
| The deal is going to need FCC approval and Department of Justice approval . It will take at least till the end of the year for that to happen . Then probably a few more months to implement Verizon's terms on Alltel customers. That buys a you about 8 months of worry free downloading . But after that all bets are off.
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Alltel
@windstream.net
| reply to macflauaus
I have thought about this every since I heard that Verizon bought Alltel and I figure that if they do decide to impliment caps like Verizon then I might as well go with satellite Internet due to the fact that 5GB. a month is not worth $59.00 a month or I would just use dial up I like the internet but it seems as though people who live in the sticks always get shafted when it comes to cable and internet and the real problem I see with it is that the majority if people who live out here own there homes not rent so if the cable and phone companies came out here they would accutally get customers who would keep the services for years and probably never get them disconnected |
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In_the_woods
join:2006-07-21
Rogers, AR
| Satellite is the same price for service BUT the hardware you have to buy is a killer. Hughes has a cap of 200mb a day on there home service. I just came over to Alltel a week ago and am happy with more speed and low latency hughes was 700ms or more.
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Athlon 64 3200+ Windows XP sp2 pro all| DW7000 with 1 watt radio| G3C 1420 mzh sig.87|Firefox |
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macflauaus
join:2005-10-08
Nashville, IL
| reply to macflauaus
The whole thing that's mainly keeping me back is the $175 (minus proration) ETF and the fact that at any point Alltel could change their TOS. I've also been reading of lower quality of service.
If only it wasn't $2000 to raise a 60' tower. There's a WISP 2.5 miles away from me but, of course, I'm surrounded by trees. :/ |
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Krileon
@windstream.net
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@macflauaus
In my experience tress don't do a dang thing to the signal as I'm getting -69 to -72 on average, but I also grabbed a 9dB gain antenna and stuck it on my roof. I want to get an amp to get the best possible signal when RevA rolls in.
Yes I want better! If better is possible.. I want it -_-
Anyway, guys you need to also consider this deal could do the reverse. It could allow verizon to LIFT the limit all together. They now have A LOT more revenue coming in and a lot more customers to keep happy. Therefore removing the limit would benefit them GREATLY and is a very huge possibility that's what they'll do.
If not I think I might just pay my phone company to expand the fiber optics at the end of my street.. Be better making payments on that and low cost DSL then freaken 100/month for hitting the bandwidth cap. I download 1-3GB average a WEEK. This would screw me over entirely. We aren't city folk here. All we got for entertainment is downloading stuff or tippin' some cows! lol |
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