Legal holidays are no longer counted as N&WKEND minutes

This is nothing new. It's been in place for several years now, but thanks for the reminder. I'm sure there are other Verizon customers who may not be aware of this.

By the way, the other big 3 carriers are the same way. No free holidays.

 

Yeah this has been gone for a long time, I remember when AT&T Wireless did this back before the merger, if you stayed on your older plan you kept it, but if you made any changes you lost the holidays.

 

Any little way they can squeeze out a profit, they will. It's certainly not like it used to be.

Though I have to say I don't miss "Follow Me Roaming"...How many of you remember this one?

 

Hahaha... the 'ol *18


... they took away free holidays from verizon back in 2004 or 2005 if i remember correctly...

 

I remember this taking effect just two years ago... I had free holidays on my Easypay plan back in 2005 while my other contract brethren didn't because Verizon had just taken it away. I enjoyed chatting all day on Labor Day I doubt that the prepaid has this still but I definitely enjoyed my one free holiday before signing on the dotted line LOL

 

I had the free holidays on my old Blue GoPhone... I found out about the freebie when I saw my balance staying the same for voice calls on the holidays... I miss old Blue.

 

What exactly was "Follow Me Roaming" anyway? I remember seeing that on my Cingular bill from time to time. I was never charged for it, but on one occasion I remember I was at a flea market in Pennsylvania and I had a follow me call 2 minutes from a regularly billed call. I think I took both calls in the exact same place.

-Jay

 

Back in the BellAtlantic then NyNex etc days *18 send was the way to assure calls would get through when out of the home area.

Although I also recall some areas especially GTE areas automatically called a roaming phone when it entered the area to inform that all calls would be forwarded. This happened in Charleston too. Parts of Flordia and always in San Francisco.

Of course now its seemless.

With *18 it was necessary to reset it each day. If one moved out of that area I think we pressed *19 send to cancel if before midnight when it would reset.

 

I never did any of that *18 stuff. The calls just showed up on my bill that way.

-Jay

 

From bill radios site

 

I remember when free Christmas calling was originally designed for free calling so people who got cell phones for gifts could get used to calling and use to spending money with the carrier. Thats when it was $21.95 access and 38 cents peak and 18 cents off peak per minute.

 

Corporate Greed and Money Gain:thumb:

Family Values and Morales:thumbsdow

In these companies eyes
Sorry if this seems drastic but it is what I believe to be true.

 

Way back in the 1990s, when I had AirTouch Cellular (pre-cursor to Verizon), whenever you traveled you had to enter *18 (or something like it) in order to register on the local cellular network for roaming.

It certainly wasn't like it is today. There was no automatic roaming back then.

 

This is what I was trying to say but failed to do so...:O

 

idk..............T-Mobile gave free unlimited textt mesaging to every customer for the day on Fathers Day

 

Free text messaging on Fathers Day is a one time special thing. We're talking about calls being free on holidays. They're not the same thing. Holidays are just like any other day now. Normal charges apply.

 

And with the switch to the Orange billing system even those who didn't make any changes have lost the holidays as well, at least in some markets.

 

I forgot about that, thanks dmapr. That was a sad blow to those that had the old plans.

 

Well, there were some pluses as well — at least now the call forwarding minutes go against the plan as opposed to always being billed at out of bucket rates on the old billing system. It obviously depends on one's usage, but in my case this plus strongly outweighs the minuses, given that I have a total of 850 (400 base + 450 bonus) anytime minutes and I don't come close to using even 300 most of the months.

 

i knida wish call forwarding was free cuz it can be frustrating.........at least when i was with T-MObile it just used minutes.........with Sprint there is a per minute charge

 

Yeah they have been dealing with raising the SMS rates lately & Sprint just raised them again.

AT&T is now going the same route with detailed billing charging the same rate, for new customers or any exsiting customers that request it after removing it.

Sprint still offers 7PM N&W standard & for I believe $5.00 a month more it can start at 6PM. Only AT&T offers 7-7 as an option & thought Verizon would have done the same, but they haven't.

 

I think the carriers understand at this point that they'll tick off a some customers, but not enough to affect their bottom line. As long as they see their profit margins grow, they'll slip in any additional charge available. They know a majority of their customers will pay it and say nothing about it. It's a risk they seem to be willing to take.

 

I believe the only carrier that still counts holidays as N&W is US Cellular.
As a holiday approaches, their 611 number makes note that holidays will count as N&W

 

Well that is neat

 

I remember this... I never had USCC but I recall them boasting this when they had their TDMA network in Florida/Georgia back in 2004... nice to know that they still kept the feature. Too bad they're not in my area anymore as they sold their network to Alltel (SE Florida) and ATT (northern FL and S. Georgia) as part of network swaps.

 

And that is exactly why I would sign up for a smaller company like U.S. Cellular or ALLTEL if I could. Even though they may have raised rates here and there, they don't nickel and dime you to death. That's also why I am hoping that some of the smaller carriers merge with each other to create a better competition to the larger wireless carriers. If the big carriers just keep gobbling up the smaller ones, we will just see prices going up and up.