[ale] OT: unlimited plans !?!

[Charles Shapiro]

Verizon's phones typically feature locked bootloaders and obstacles to
rooting tools.  T-Mobile is marginally better. I don't know if that's just
negligence or the result of a hideous political fight in the technical
departments.  I do, however, want control of my own devices with a minimum
of hassle.

-- CHS


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:41 PM, <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

> Yeah, but Verizon makes up for it by having really expensive plans to
> using the same phone in Europe...   *8-)   But, I understand their phones
> are unlocked for international use, so you can buy a SIM card at the
> airport when you land.
>
> But seriously folks.... Verizon seems to have a tower pretty much
> everywhere.   We were camped in Humbolt state park 100 miles north of San
> Francisco, amongst the redwoods, and there ain't NOTHING around this park.
> No gas stations, no stores, no convenience stores, no houses.    And we
> have a 4-bar Verizon signal.
>
> In aggregate terms, one suspects that European carriers have far fewer
> towers to maintain.
>
> I actually USED TO have an unlimited Verizon plan, but never did use
> enough of it to justify keeping it.    They have gotten increasingly more
> reasonable - I guess my many years of complaining to them as both our
> children and my wife left them for Ting.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: unlimited plans !?!
> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, February 14, 2017 7:31 pm
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
>
>
> Yeah. The US has stupid expensive data plans on phone and home.
>
> On Feb 14, 2017 7:28 PM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other day I was discussing with friend of mine who is living in
>> Europe about my Android camera app not having button for adjusting image
>> size. I need to upload pics on my work phone but not needed to be 3.5 MB
>> each.
>>
>> My friend was like "what kind of internet you have that you care for
>> image size" ?
>>
>> Me: " 2GB from Verizon"
>>
>> He literally laughed in my face :) "Mine is 26 GB internet on 4G for 10$
>> a month" and he showed his statistics 86 Mbit down  and 18 Mbit up.
>>
>> My Verizon phone showed 18 down and somewhere 2 up.
>>
>> I didn't say anything more :)
>>
>>
>> P.S. Wouldn’t bother you with that story but just read the
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/unlimited-plans-comparison-
>> verizon-att-sprint-tmobile-2017-2/#verizon-3
>>
>> P.P.S. I installed open camera app to solve the issue
>>
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