If you are a Verizon customer hoping to upgrade your phone, but hesitant about losing your unlimited data plan, you may want to give some serious consideration to going ahead and pulling the trigger. Like right after you finish reading this article. Inexplicably, the Verizon web site is currently letting customers place orders for upgraded devices, even pre-ordering devices, without requiring users with unlimited data plans to switch over to one of the tiered plans. Several Verizon customers have reported success in placing an order or pre-order for a new device without any apparent impact on their unlimited data plan.
It is not clear why this may be happening. It could be some problem with the Verizon website that their team has not yet been able to correct, assuming they are aware of the issue. It is also not clear what Verizon may do when they discover all the orders for devices with grandfathered unlimited data plans. Hopefully they will honor what the buyers signed up for.
In the meantime, the word is starting to spread around the Internet, so it is only a matter of time before Verizon fixes things. So make haste if this is the right deal for you.
Update – It looks like Verizon has pulled the plug on this deal. Again, we have no idea if Big Red will honor any purchases that happened before they caught the mistake. Hopefully they will do the right thing.
source: Android Central
Isn’t the issue here whether you get the phone at the subsidized price? I’m pretty sure you’ve always been able to upgrade your phone for full cost without losing your plan.
What’s ironic about this is that when people upgrade they may end up with a cheaper plan, particularly if they move from a phone without MicroSD to one with MicroSD.
f u c k Verizon
They can keep their limited data. I’m an old grandfathered unlimited data customer and leaving after my contract expires.
I can’t say I blame you but coverage wise no other company is better. I’m not jumping ship
agreed. just upgrade a different line on your plan that doesnt have unlimited, and then after activating that new phone on that line, change it back to the original phone. that will leave the new phone ready to be activated on the unlimited data plan. (this process took me around 5 hours to complete because the activation on my unlimited plan took about 4 hours to finalize.) during my activation process i didnt have a phone, but it was definitely worth it.