Yup

http://www2.wnct.com/news/2011/dec/2.../bit.ly/rVMviY

Still too damn high though

They will still get their $2, don't you worry. It just won't be public this time.

This $2 is to cover their merchant fees. In my opinion, that's just the cost of doing business. If I had to pay 2% of my total bill every time I used my debit/credit card, I'd carry cash everywhere.

I have Verizon and hate them. Their coverage sucks in my area and my bill is about 20% higher than it was with AT&T.

Didn't want to start a new thread for this but if anyone has a GSM phone that is unlocked or jailbroken, you can now buy a sim from Straight talk (straighttalksim.com) and for 45 bucks a month you will have unlimited everything for your smart phone.

Luck has nothing to do with it. The data plan that is required to be purchased with any smart phone is unlimited data and email for $29.99.

If your paying for going over your data allotment with verizon it is because you are not using a smart phone.

Negative. Cancel that.

That is the way the data plan was explained to me when I got my first smart phone. And you go on their website and look at data plans there is one specific for smart phones that clearly states unlimited. I've gone back and looked at my bills and have yet to find once where I was charged extra for going over on data. And I use data more than minutes or text.

I don't know what they are doing to fuck you over, but I'd address it with them at once.

LOL...the costs incurred.

No it's called subsidizing a phone for the purpose of locking people in a contract.

If you like being a sheep then that's your option... If you can't afford to buy a phone without a contract, you probably should not be getting that phone...

I've got an unlimited no contract plan with tmobile and I use the samsung dart smartphone. $50 a month and I don't even have to jailbreak my phone to tether as mobile wifi is included.

Any plan is good that does not include a contract.....

Did you know that all of us regardless of what carrier we use pay the cell ph bill for 'parasites on welfare':roll eyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/washington-foo...202500656.html

Also we buy them a phone as well.

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink/

I saw this.... gotta love it

Breaking the contract only ends up costing you about what you saved on the phone. It's not like you're selling you soul to the devil. You save money on a phone for agreeing to keep a service you're likely to keep anyway.

You guys remember watching Little house on the prarie. I think we should all just appreciate having the ability to communicate around the world with absolutely no effort.