The Belief Project..
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I know some people are stating it will cost more it will cost less, but honestly never having to sign a contract again, after your first intial one? Verizon smart phone contract cancellation is 350..
The belief points is like a reward system, where you get to, use it to discount items in store, car chargers, screen protectors and so forth, which saves $ and adds up over time.
The plans with phone replacement, basically if your phone breaks drops in water go in, and swap it out, no waiting, for a replacement unless they don't have it in the store.
Only time you have...
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single line plan bottom voice just basic 49.99, and 700 min pay as u go txt and data.
Or you can jus tadd on unlimited data like you would today, or add on unlimited internet as you would today, those features are still there...
they just added in unlimited data... options at a family plan level.
Voice Unlimited Minute Plans.
109.99$ A Month
Unlimited Everything, Phone Replacement within Store if you drop yours in water, and upgrade your phone as early as 11 months, after first initial contracts no more.
Verizon Wireless
Unlimited Everything Plan
119.99 a month
Unlimited Everything, No instant phone replacement within the store, upgrade your phone as early as 24 months (maybe 18?) and sign 2 year contracts again and again.
Still saving more then verizon and getting more in my personal opinon, don't like new plans if with uscc, dont change you are grand fathered into that plan until you decide to change.
US Cellular Preimum Plus 179.99, and lets just say your feeling frisky add on all the max 6 lines, so 200$ more, you are 379.99 a month now.. *gasp*. unlimited everything smart phones on all 6 lines.
Verizon Wireless.
149.99$ for first 2 phones, and lets go to their max of 3, at 50.00$ additional 299.99, and now all are smart phones 5x30... 449.99$ a month.
God dang it us cellular how dare you give me 6 phones at 379.99 all smart phones when verizon is giving it at 449.99 for 5.
USCC might be a good deal compared to Verizon, but what about with the virtual players joining the game like Walmart. This link shows they use T-mobile's network and have unlimited talk, text, and 100Mb data for $45 a month for one line or $70 for 2 lines. That's a much better deal and no contract needed and they didn't hype it all up like USCC did. People are left scratching their heads saying "really?" this is what all the buildup and hype was all about--new higher priced plans?? Wow that was well worth the wait! I think Walmart needs to actually advertise these plans and you'll see Verizon, ATT, USCC all sweating as people leave them. Oh well, believ...
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The nice part is they aren't forcing us to leave our lower price plans, we can still stay in the current plans and just have to sign the contract every two years, right?
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U.S. Cellular is not trying to compete with Walmart or Cricket or Boost or Virgin Mobile because those are discount resellers who lease tower space from major providers and offer junk phones... Because they are leasing their space and not hiring engineers to build and maintain their own towers their networks are very limited and customers have problems placing and receiving calls indoors, slow data connection, limits of 100 mb/month, etc.
U.S. Cellular is competing with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint and competing quite successfully. U.S. Cellular's network is very good and their plans are competitive. On top of that with the belief project their customer service is basically going to be unmatched in the ...
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Would be pretty stupid for them to even remotely attempt to compete directly with that. Even tmobile...
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Instead, the goal is to try and treat customers better than they have been. These new plans are all people can focus on lately. While price is always a mark to be looked at it carriers like Verizon and AT&T have no room to talk. I've done the comparissons and USC will be more expensive for some, and equal rate for others, and great savings for others. The differnce is even if USC is $10 more a month than another ...
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phoneman1977 said:
Here's how I see it...
U.S. Cellular is competing with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint and competing quite successfully. U.S. Cellular's network is very good and their plans are competitive. On top of that with the belief project their customer service is basically going to be unmatched in the industry so at the end of the day I do believe that this is going to be successful despite all the naysayers.
Looking at the numbers each has it looks like USCC's real competition is Tmobile.
I've started looking around to see what others are charging and Tmobile has better coverage especially in Northern Wi and Michigan. Their basic family plan is $10 cheaper too. I'm starting to w...
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As I've stated before, the reason I have stayed with USCC for 10 years and will continue to do so is because of great phone reception in my area and good (albeit not always consistent) customer service.
The issue I raised about prices is valid. My own personal single user plan will go up $15/month. Sometimes people in a tough economy are tight wads. The new plans allow for very little customization (e.g. pay per text or unlimited text, no inbetween; no option for premium internet phones that is chea...
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There is one thing that they are doing though, confusing/boring me with their commercials. Really? Youtube those things they really are terrible.