Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
arichard21
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generally when there your contract is sold to another provider, they offer you to use your existing equiptment and go month to month, or they treat you like a new customer offering phones at a 2 yr contract price (of course with the 2 year contract). thats how it went when we were with unicel and was sold to ATT.

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Ann154
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Well this time we can't use our existing equipment because the CDMA phone from Verizon is incompatible with AT&T's GSM network.

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Tidbits
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Ann154 wrote:
Well this time we can't use our existing equipment because the CDMA phone from Verizon is incompatible with AT&T's GSM network.

Sell your device which you can keep...  Sign the 2 year and get whatever you want and have money left over in your pocket...  All your problems solved.

 

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Ann154
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You mean someone would pay good money for my baby Droid?

1) I refuse to buy a new phone and a two year contract from a company that I have repeatedly rejected as possible receiver of my business over the last ten years. They never had coverage where I live. With this sale, they might accomplish it. At the moment I have selected their designated "comparable" phone with no additional contract commitment. If the network meets the coverage of the Verizon network I get now, I will survive with that phone until my current contract end date which will be less than a year from when I get the AT&T phone. What happens at that point is yet to be determined.

2) Or I can try the free phone from AT&T for 2-25 days. Decide the network is whack and walk into a Verizon store say that I have a Droid Eris and I want to start a new monthly service, port my number back to Verizon, and cancel the AT&T and mail their inferior locked down phone back to them. I would gladly pay the restocking fee. Then whenever Verizon decides to release their LTE phones, I will be on a month to month and can get a new phone, maybe.

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
budone
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Ann154 wrote:
You mean someone would pay good money for my baby Droid?

1) I refuse to buy a new phone and a two year contract from a company that I have repeatedly rejected as possible receiver of my business over the last ten years. They never had coverage where I live. With this sale, they might accomplish it. At the moment I have selected their designated "comparable" phone with no additional contract commitment. If the network meets the coverage of the Verizon network I get now, I will survive with that phone until my current contract end date which will be less than a year from when I get the AT&T phone. What happens at that point is yet to be determined.

2) Or I can try the free phone from AT&T for 2-25 days. Decide the network is whack and walk into a Verizon store say that I have a Droid Eris and I want to start a new monthly service, port my number back to Verizon, and cancel the AT&T and mail their inferior locked down phone back to them. I would gladly pay the restocking fee. Then whenever Verizon decides to release their LTE phones, I will be on a month to month and can get a new phone, maybe.As much as I dislike ATT, I do give them credit for this clause. Now will they send techs out and say, 'Hey you have one bar in the yard, sorry". The way I read it, no. There are many upset people near me, even my neighbor. He has an Alltel phone with a Muskegon exchange he is going to ATT. I have a Grand Rapids number, and was switched to Verizon a year ago.

 

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Tidbits
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Ann154 wrote:
You mean someone would pay good money for my baby Droid?

1) I refuse to buy a new phone and a two year contract from a company that I have repeatedly rejected as possible receiver of my business over the last ten years. They never had coverage where I live. With this sale, they might accomplish it. At the moment I have selected their designated "comparable" phone with no additional contract commitment. If the network meets the coverage of the Verizon network I get now, I will survive with that phone until my current contract end date which will be less than a year from when I get the AT&T phone. What happens at that point is yet to be determined.

2) Or I can try the free phone from AT&T for 2-25 days. Decide the network is whack and walk into a Verizon store say that I have a Droid Eris and I want to start a new monthly service, port my number back to Verizon, and cancel the AT&T and mail their inferior locked down phone back to them. I would gladly pay the restocking fee. Then whenever Verizon decides to release their LTE phones, I will be on a month to month and can get a new phone, maybe.

SO you finally calmed down and thought things rationally...  You finally figured you are in a great position, and you could actually have more money on top in the end with a little work.  I would have jumped on a chance to be sold like that as that's at least $300 in my pocket for doing nothing hahaha.

 

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Ann154
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What??? Those choices have been the plan since July. I have just been waiting for the details to know how viable they could be.

As for selling my baby Droid, nah! I'm thinking February will be a good time to figure out how to get Amazon MP3 and a few other programs off it.

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Tidbits
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Then what's the purpose of this thread?

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Tidbits
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I stand corrected It wasn't you who started the thread.  I hope the guy who did post the thread read what was discussed between you and I and find out he's not in a bad position like he thinks he is in.

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Re: Verizon sold me (and my D2) to ATT, UGH!
Ann154
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Tidbits wrote:

I stand corrected It wasn't you who started the thread.  I hope the guy who did post the thread read what was discussed between you and I and find out he's not in a bad position like he thinks he is in.


I think he might have figured it out.  I knew earlier that he posts to another website.  Here is the link to that thread since I can't use the link from the AT&T forums. That thread is in an area where you have to be registered to see.  Very weird IMHO.

 

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/92637-my-open-letter-t-regarding-merger.h...

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