Verizon Wireless Adding New Fees to Older Cellphone Plans to Encourage Upgrades to 5G plans

I been out of the trendy loop for a while. I am on ATT, am i still supposed to hate people on verizon? Are we past that or did i just forget? haha
 
GotNoRice said:
"rate plan adjustment fee" aka "Biden inflation adjustment fee"
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And the award for arbitrary diversion into politics goes to...

Below-the-line fees are stunts companies have pulled regardless of who's running the country or how well the economy is doing. It's just a question of whether or not regulators have the guts to crack down when the fees are clearly deceptive and unnecessary.
 
Darunion said:
I been out of the trendy loop for a while. I am on ATT, am i still supposed to hate people on verizon? Are we past that or did i just forget? haha
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I'm pretty sure everyone is supposed to hate both ATT and VZW at present. I'm not sure if TMobile is currently on the 5 minute of hate list or not.
 
I’m on Visible with a grandfathered party pay plan. They keep telling me I NEED to switch to the new plan, mentioning 5G and “ new features “ but say I will keep the $25 per month.. my plan includes 5G and I know they will swap that price at their earliest convenience. If one of the features was unlimited hotspot at an unlocked speed then I might even pay more. But not for exactly the same service
 
Aurelius said:
And the award for arbitrary diversion into politics goes to...
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Inflation is not politics, it's economics. Expecting companies to keep prices the same on old plans despite record inflation is wishful thinking at best, if not pure ignorance. I know it's easy to simply cast companies as greedy evil entities but they are not immune to the effects of inflation and ultimately it gets passed on to the consumer.
 
I was with Verizon for over a decade and had to bail when they decided my old plan wasn’t available anymore and arbitrarily changed it. The choice was more expensive by a lot or more expensive by 2x. I had been buying phones straight up and just activating them to avoid switching plans when upgrading through them. Party couldn’t last forever I suppose.
 
I'm honestly surprised they didn't do this a few months ago at the same time they raised the price on my legacy non-unlimited (but still more data than I've ever used in a month) plan by a few dollars.

Of course I'm being encouraged to upgrade to a new 5g unlimited plan, even though my phone doesn't have 5g and 5g coverage around where I live is fairly minimal, which naturally would be more expensive.

Based on their LTE buildout I'm probably a year from having enough 5g coverage in my region for it to be worthwhile.
 
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