iPhone Users: Will You Switch to Verizon? [POLL]

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iPhone Users: Will You Switch to Verizon? [POLL]

via Mashable! by Christina Warren on 1/10/11

Now that Tuesday’s Verizon iPhone announcement is all but assured, what will the impact be on current AT&T iPhone customers?

With the latest rumors indicating that Verizon’s version of the iPhone will be available in late January, we know that plenty of Mashable readers will be contemplating making the move to a carrier with — let’s just say — fewer connectivity issues.

Of course, the wireless companies never make this easy. As Mashable’s Ben Parr pointed out yesterday, the Verizon iPhone might not spell immediate disaster for AT&T, if only because of the high early termination fees.

AT&T charges an ETF of $325 for smartphone owners who enter into two-year service agreements. However, AT&T reduces the amount of the ETF $10 for every month a customer is in their agreement. That means that if an AT&T customer signed a new two-year agreement in June 2010 (for the iPhone 4), it may be possible to shave $60 off that $325 figure if he or she cancels the account in February.

Of course, for AT&T customers who are at their breaking point with the carrier’s notoriously shoddy coverage, the price — any price — might be worth leaving the fold for possibly greener pastures.

At CES 2011, AT&T proved once again that it cannot manage a large load of smartphone-using, data-munching customers congregated in one area. To be fair, Verizon’s data connections were also slow, but at least most of those phones could make and receive phone calls.

Last fall, we polled Mashable readers on their interest in a Verizon iPhone. The results were clear — 58% of respondents said they were interested in an iPhone on the nation’s largest carrier.

In that poll, the majority of “yes” respondents were current Verizon customers. This time, we’d like to poll existing iPhone owners (though non-iPhone owners can feel free to vote as well). Are you going to switch carriers to get a Verizon iPhone?

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Take our poll and then let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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[Prokic Roger]

I am staying with AT&T.
Verizon does not offer unlimited data plans.

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[Bill Boulware]

Yes they do - we have 5 lines on Verizon and they still have unlimited data for $29.99.  AT&T only still has it for grandfathered in lines, if you drop the data plan for any reason the reps can't even add it back (supposedly).

[Prokic Roger]

Wow. I didn't know that. I should consider Verizon now. I will look into their plans. 

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[Bill Boulware]

I just tried to sign up as a new customer and selected an Android Phone and the three options are "corporate" $44.99 unlimited, "personal" $29.99 unlimited, and persona/light $15 'limited' data. -

They already have an iOS filter for the phones but nothing shows up ;-) - I think that and the tweet from VZWNews sent FROM an iPhone basically let the proverbial cat out of the bag.

	Unlimited Corporate Email & Web for Smartphones (business & personal email)	$44.99/month
		Unlimited Email & Web for Smartphones (personal email).	$29.99/month
		150MB - Email & Web for Smartphones (personal email)	$15.00/month

[Danny W. Pimienta]

Yeah, and you could easily exhaust your capped amount because of their
excellent coverage.

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[Danny W. Pimienta]

You can get it back. When I turned off my 1st gen iPhone for a Pre they put a 2gb plan. When I went back to the iPhone a few weeks later the rep put me right back on a unlimited plan. 

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