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The Droid is dead, long live the Droid | 402 comments | Create New Account
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The Droid is dead, long live the Droid
Authored by: wowbagger on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 05:57 PM EDT
This isn't anything new: you have your plan until you change something, at which
point you have to start a new contract, and then you get whatever They want to
give you (and that applies to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and just about
everybody else).

Your timing was good if you got a 4G plan with unlimited data - you should be
good until you have to swap out your device, at which point they will require a
new contract. You *might* be able to keep your current plan IFF you buy your
next device outright directly from the manufacturer, and just switch your
existing contract over, but I am sure they will fight you tooth and nail over
approving that - and I will pretty much guarantee that you will NOT be able to
move from 4G to the next iteration without a new contract.

In a way, I can sympathize with them: Feature phones could have unlimited data,
because there simply wasn't any good way such a phone could really use it, but
my Android will do pretty much anything my computer can do - up to and including
hosting a Torrent - and so unlimited is really starting to pinch the phone
carriers. Moving to a (sanely priced) pay-for-usage plan may not be a bad thing
(operative phrase is "sanely priced").

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Grandfathered: as in 'expected to die...'
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 05:58 PM EDT
Of natural causes of course, and as soon as convenient.

And: each and every term in the preceding description is
subject to 'our' definition, which may deviate from the one
found in a dictionary.

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