Wow... my entire 500-minute-unlimited-everything-else Sprint SERO plan costs $30. And, no, I didn't notice a hit in the signal quality, even switching from super-expensive Verizon!
And your super awesome Sero plan could actually be interpreted as a form of fraud since you more than likely dont work for the company and used someone elses employee email address to sign up for the service.
So you enjoy that SERO plan that is entire flawed in the process of cellular price plan sales, and generally holds no sway in terms of actual priceplan discussion.
You are using a plan that is for the most part, outside of the usual websites/blogs what have you, not known to the public and therefor really is only to make you feel better about yourself getting over the system.
This plan is designed for just that, average users who do not need corporate email or forwarding. It is not labeled as 5gig cap because without tethering there is no way just basic web browsing on a phone is going to reach a gig in an entire month. This plan is in relation to the blackberry plan in regards to the fact that we(as a company Verizon Wireless, yes I'm employed under said company) recieved many complaints about the pda pricing versus casual BB user pricing.
To get back to my point though, your SERO plan is meaningless, obtained under false pretenses and is in fact, abuse of sprints terms even though they did catch you under that contract.
I don't know where you are but I'm in West Los Angeles. I too went from Verizon to Sprint's SERO plan but signal quality dropped significantly. It's not bad enough for me to hate SERO but I need to stand in my kitchen when I'm using my phone as this is the only place that gets decent reception at my place.
All in all, no one else can touch $30/mo for 500min and unlimited everything else.
"without tethering there is no way just basic web browsing on a phone is going to reach a gig in an entire month."
Here is a short selection of popular webpages and the size of their sub-pages or article pages. These sizes are NOT for the frontpage/homepage of the website, which can get quite large, especially for blogs.
1GB per month / 30 = average 33 megabytes/day. With the average web page view nearly 1/2 megabyte already, you can see that is not a whole lot of allotted data.
Obviously, the 5GB data limit on laptop cards is going to be MUCH worse due to different usage models with a large laptop screen...
yes this has all been posted before, the same exact numbers in fact, and if I were to look at it I bet it was you who posted it. The fact of the matter is that it is nearly impossible to reach the limit with basic web browsing on the phones. The phones can't do it fast enough to make it as easy to generate those types of numbers like you can on a computer.
I've been using internet on my phone for nearly a year and a half, went from a symbian OS to the iPhone and even with the speed of the iPhone in the month I've had it, using web pages like engadget etc every day I am barely at a gig of use. And I do use it every day, basically on the hour.
Obviously in this case you are going to have differing mileage but the numbers that you are quoting, again are not as easy to attain as you think.
I have had a very similar experience with Sprint. I am now with verizon and there are no more mysterious billing errors and the reps are knowledgeable and seem to care about helping the customer resolve issues -- this was a major problem with Sprint and to a lesser extent Cingular.
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Kevin @ Apr 14th 2008 1:28PM
Wow... my entire 500-minute-unlimited-everything-else Sprint SERO plan costs $30. And, no, I didn't notice a hit in the signal quality, even switching from super-expensive Verizon!
The D Train @ Apr 14th 2008 2:13PM
And your super awesome Sero plan could actually be interpreted as a form of fraud since you more than likely dont work for the company and used someone elses employee email address to sign up for the service.
So you enjoy that SERO plan that is entire flawed in the process of cellular price plan sales, and generally holds no sway in terms of actual priceplan discussion.
You are using a plan that is for the most part, outside of the usual websites/blogs what have you, not known to the public and therefor really is only to make you feel better about yourself getting over the system.
This plan is designed for just that, average users who do not need corporate email or forwarding. It is not labeled as 5gig cap because without tethering there is no way just basic web browsing on a phone is going to reach a gig in an entire month. This plan is in relation to the blackberry plan in regards to the fact that we(as a company Verizon Wireless, yes I'm employed under said company) recieved many complaints about the pda pricing versus casual BB user pricing.
To get back to my point though, your SERO plan is meaningless, obtained under false pretenses and is in fact, abuse of sprints terms even though they did catch you under that contract.
CornMonkey @ Apr 14th 2008 2:18PM
I don't know where you are but I'm in West Los Angeles. I too went from Verizon to Sprint's SERO plan but signal quality dropped significantly. It's not bad enough for me to hate SERO but I need to stand in my kitchen when I'm using my phone as this is the only place that gets decent reception at my place.
All in all, no one else can touch $30/mo for 500min and unlimited everything else.
loosely_coupled @ Apr 14th 2008 5:33PM
@The D Train
"without tethering there is no way just basic web browsing on a phone is going to reach a gig in an entire month."
Here is a short selection of popular webpages and the size of their sub-pages or article pages. These sizes are NOT for the frontpage/homepage of the website, which can get quite large, especially for blogs.
websites:
engadget.com (random post) 420KB
yahoo.com (news article) 585KB
nytimes.com (news article) 345KB
seedmagazine.com (article page) 223KB
discovermagazine.com (article page) 731KB
livescience.com (article page) 438KB
tgdaily.com (subpage) 253KB
technologyreview.com (subpage) 247KB
macrumors.com (forum page) 207KB
tmz.com (blog post) 433KB
Average: 389KB/page.
1GB per month / 30 = average 33 megabytes/day. With the average web page view nearly 1/2 megabyte already, you can see that is not a whole lot of allotted data.
Obviously, the 5GB data limit on laptop cards is going to be MUCH worse due to different usage models with a large laptop screen...
The D Train @ Apr 15th 2008 10:07AM
yes this has all been posted before, the same exact numbers in fact, and if I were to look at it I bet it was you who posted it. The fact of the matter is that it is nearly impossible to reach the limit with basic web browsing on the phones. The phones can't do it fast enough to make it as easy to generate those types of numbers like you can on a computer.
I've been using internet on my phone for nearly a year and a half, went from a symbian OS to the iPhone and even with the speed of the iPhone in the month I've had it, using web pages like engadget etc every day I am barely at a gig of use. And I do use it every day, basically on the hour.
Obviously in this case you are going to have differing mileage but the numbers that you are quoting, again are not as easy to attain as you think.
M @ Jun 20th 2008 11:08AM
Snowenloe is 100% right.
I have had a very similar experience with Sprint. I am now with verizon and there are no more mysterious billing errors and the reps are knowledgeable and seem to care about helping the customer resolve issues -- this was a major problem with Sprint and to a lesser extent Cingular.