| Dennis Ferguson 2008-02-29, 10:33 pm |
| On 2008-03-01, The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote:
> "Jar-Jar Binks" <jarjar@nospam.com> amazed us all with the following in
> news:Wm3yj.7228$mI6.3297@newsfe08.phx:
>
> Until your phone gets shut off for excessive roaming.
I was going to say the Verizon would do that to you too if you if you
had to spend a month in west Texas or rural Wisconsin, since last time
I looked at the customer agreement they had added an off-network limit
(I think it was 40% of any-time plan minutes), but that seems to have
disappeared again from their current customer agreement. It wasn't in
the one I signed either.
Sprint's clause is really evil. If you have a 1000 minute/month plan,
and use 200 minutes in a month, but 101 of those minutes are off-network,
they can dump you.
Verizon is actually really good about extended network roaming, despite
their phones' love of Verizon towers if they can hear one. My plan
includes Canada and Mexico, and while I don't use the Canada bit so
much I use serious minutes in Mexico (over 2000 minutes in 2 weeks
in January, over 6000 total in 2007) since I have no other phone there
I can (afford to) use. They haven't complained to me at all about
this. I guess the downside that Verizon is really fussy about who
they'll let you roam with has the upside that, when roaming coverage
is all you've got, they'll let you use what you need of it.
Dennis Ferguson
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