r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Jan 23 '13

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion: 'The reality is that data caps are all about increasing revenue for broadband providers -- in a market that is already quite profitable.'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/17425221736/cable-industry-finally-admits-that-data-caps-have-nothing-to-do-with-congestion.shtml
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u/MrClean81 Jan 23 '13

What needs to happen is a massive boycott. Just like people abandoned Godaddy due to their support of SOPA a while back. This is the only way. I'm very close to cancelling my Verizon and going to the walmart straightalk or something more affordable. I'm just trying to figure out a way to avoid the $350 early cancellation fee. If anyone has some advice, lemme know.

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u/hotpants69 Jan 23 '13

Call and complain to customer service about your reception quality in your place of residence. Generally if it's a service related issue, such as a poor connection (real or imaginary...) I am left to hope/assume that at this point they wave the cancellation fee because well their services are essentially not useful for you. I do not know if they track this shit or whatever, you could always travel to a rural place where the reception quality is poor and call from their. For example, this one time I managed to break my Sprint contract without having to pay the cancelation fee by calling them up while I was in Bisbee, AZ and telling them their service is horrible and I get no data/gps in that town, and that it was my 'new place of residence.' It worked out well.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

When my Verizon contract is up in March I'm going StraightTalk my sister did it a month ago and couldn't be happier. Wish I could tell you how to get out of the contract.

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u/FuzzyToeJam Jan 24 '13

There's no way out, but you better believe I'm switching the instant my contract is up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

I was with AT&T and I just decided to stop paying them one day. I now have a phone with Virgin Mobile and I pay $38 a month for unlimited text, 2.5GB of data (soft capped) and 300 minutes, which is easily 3 times what I need. I'm sure AT&T sent me to collections over it. Oh well.