Mobile Madness - Uncensored

[#] Thu Mar 17 2011 16:48:45 EDT from Ford II

Give verizon some credit.
I put in the address of the 1st house we were going to buy and it offers up directv and high speed internet.
I put in the address of the house we're going to buy and it offers up fios packages. YAY.
I put in the address of my current house and it says this address already has fios service.
not bad.

[#] Fri Mar 18 2011 15:23:50 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Yay for Verizon. Perhaps this time you'll get real FIOS and not FTAS?

[#] Sun Mar 20 2011 21:08:58 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.

AT&T is acquiring T-Mobile.

So much for affordable cell phone plans.

[#] Sun Mar 20 2011 22:38:25 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

In response to this move, I'm guessing that Verizon will gobble up Sprint's mobile business.

Harumph. I wonder if my $30-per-phone unlimited data plan will be grandfathered in. If it isn't, I might as well see if it makes sense to get a Verizon plan and bundle it with my FIOS for the $10 per month discount or whatever it is they're offering.

Double harumph. My current plan still has more than a year left on the contract, and I just got a third phone to give to the IGlet on his 11th birthday -- *that* phone starts a new two-year lock in.

Hopefully the emergence of $75 Android smartphones will destroy the market for carrier subsidized phones and create significant downward pressure on mobile data plans, as some industry observers have suggested.

[#] Mon Mar 21 2011 00:32:51 EDT from Harbard

I hope so too....3 months left on my plan and I want to ditch AT&T and get a good phone with no crapware on it.

[#] Mon Mar 21 2011 09:50:13 EDT from wizard of aahz

IG - When I read that news last night I was thinking of you. Actually I was sorta hearing the scream of outrage emanating from about 30 miles away. Would probably be MUCH less as the crow flies.

[#] Mon Mar 21 2011 15:07:28 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

You need to live closer to where I am screaming.

[#] Mon Mar 21 2011 17:30:47 EDT from wizard of aahz

heh.

[#] Tue Mar 22 2011 00:07:53 EDT from Sig

We went to month-to-month with T-Mobile because it was significantly cheaper over the long run to buy our own phones than get a subsidized plan. I am using a G1 ($80 on craigslist); She just got a myTouch 3G slide for $200 on swappa.com, pre-loaded with the latest Cyanogenmod RC. Yes, I am jealous.

[#] Tue Mar 22 2011 09:12:51 EDT from fleeb

Subject: Re:

Tue Mar 22 2011 00:07:53 EDT from Sig

We went to month-to-month with T-Mobile...

Originally misparsed this as "We went mouth-to-mouth with T-Mobile..."

My world certainly is entertaining.

[#] Wed Mar 23 2011 12:36:47 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Subject: Re:

Yes, their phones have two microphones and no earpiece.

[#] Thu Mar 24 2011 16:38:04 EDT from Ford II

Yay for Verizon. Perhaps this time you'll get real FIOS and not FTAS?

vooess?

[#] Thu Mar 24 2011 18:09:54 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I don't remember what FTAS stands for, but you currently have it. We determined that a few months ago -- it is some sort of vestige of the old days when they still sold unbundled FIOS elements to third parties.

[#] Sun Mar 27 2011 19:29:09 EDT from Ford II

oh that. i used to have it i think. when i got fios tv they basically nixed my setup and signed me up new. and it was a big deal because they had a really hard time cancelling my service because there was no option n their software to cancel

[#] Sun Mar 27 2011 19:29:19 EDT from Ford II

a customer like me.

[#] Sun Mar 27 2011 19:30:18 EDT from Ford II

i actually got on the phone with a dev lead type on the team who needed to crate the button. create

[#] Sun Mar 27 2011 21:30:16 EDT from fleeb

Hehheh... 'crate the button'...

"Okay, did he want a shiny red one, or a cool blue one?"

"Shiny red. And it has to light up when he presses it."

"Good, that's the one I put in the crate. Ship it!"

[#] Mon Mar 28 2011 11:08:58 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Right, I remember all that, and then later on we discovered that you were *still* on a different network from those of us that have always been direct retail from Verizon, even though your billing and service had been straightened out.

Crate the button. And then dump it in the river.

[#] Wed Mar 30 2011 17:30:45 EDT from Ford II

I don't remember, but whatever happens, I expect that moving will "reset" my relationship with russia.

[#] Mon Apr 18 2011 09:59:27 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Always an amusing read (for this topic anyway), ESR neatly sums up the various modes of denialism that have been pushed by Apple/iPhone fanbois over the last couple of years, each being blown away in turn as Android continues to blow past them.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3132

I think there's enough room in the market for Apple to continue doing nicely for the foreseeable future, but there's an emotional attachment to the #1 spot for everyone. Apple and Linux fans both wanted to see volume market leadership in the post-PC era, once it became clear that Microsoft would *not* have that spot. Linux won this time around.