Verizon, Verizon prepaid, Straight Talk data coverage

TomG2 wrote:
I would expect to use one percent of my included data in retrieving contacts, updating programs, and general housekeeping.

I found out all your apps just sitting on the phone use data even if you have them shut off in the settings....and it's a lot of data.

I found this out 'back in the day' when you could get a smart phone 'with out a data plan' and you got an itemized bill of ALL the data used that you were expected to pay for!!

My first bill had 4 pages of data usage costs that I never used and after going over it all with my provider they were all from apps running, accessing, and downloading to the phone.

So no one is getting the full amount of the data package you purchase. From what I saw 1/3 is used by extraneous items using YOUR data in the background. The more game apps etc you have packed onto your phone the more of your data is being eaten up alive. which explains all the complaints on how fast your data gets used.

IMHO they know this and maybe planned it so they CAN throttle you back which adds to their profit line.

I would expect to use one percent of my included data in retrieving contacts, updating programs, and general housekeeping.

TomG2 wrote:

D.E.Bishop wrote:
What rockhillmanor said. I had my new Moto G and the prepaid $45 Verizon Plan and on the third day I got a note from Verizon to add more data. I didn't even know how to answer a call yet. Went to BB and they showed me how to disable data all together. Never used any data and over 4Meg was gone.

Something is wrong, you get 500 meg included with the $45 prepaid plan. 4Meg is only one percent of that.

It even gets more insane if you look at the usage chart monitor on your phone it states in real small type under it....

that the 'actual' usage may differ from what your phone provider states. :R:R

Things appear smaller in this mirror than they actually are. :B

D.E.Bishop wrote:
What rockhillmanor said. I had my new Moto G and the prepaid $45 Verizon Plan and on the third day I got a note from Verizon to add more data. I didn't even know how to answer a call yet. Went to BB and they showed me how to disable data all together. Never used any data and over 4Meg was gone.

Something is wrong, you get 500 meg included with the $45 prepaid plan. 4Meg is only one percent of that.

What rockhillmanor said. I had my new Moto G and the prepaid $45 Verizon Plan and on the third day I got a note from Verizon to add more data. I didn't even know how to answer a call yet. Went to BB and they showed me how to disable data all together. Never used any data and over 4Meg was gone.

OK, I found these maps, and Tom appears to be correct.

Prepaid

Contract

If you open them in new tabs, and click back and forth between them, at least in my browser the maps are in the exact same spot on the screen so you can start to see the differences. Out west it's harder to pinpoint the difference but they are there. In the east the differences seem to be minimal. Midcontinent, there are some for sure.

Snowman9000 wrote:

TomG2 wrote:
Prepaid Verizon coverage is not the same as Contract coverage. The native Verizon coverage is the same, but contract users benefit from partnership agreements that provide roaming coverage in areas where Verizon itself does not have great coverage. Compare them in Missouri and Oklahoma for instance.

I have prepaid and appreciate it despite this difference.

Tom, are we talking voice, data, or both?

Not sure, but voice for sure. Apparently they have some roaming agreements that supplement their contract coverage. Where I winter and summer, I have native Verizon service, so Prepaid works for me.

TomG2 wrote:
Prepaid Verizon coverage is not the same as Contract coverage. The native Verizon coverage is the same, but contract users benefit from partnership agreements that provide roaming coverage in areas where Verizon itself does not have great coverage. Compare them in Missouri and Oklahoma for instance.

I have prepaid and appreciate it despite this difference.

Tom, are we talking voice, data, or both?

Prepaid Verizon coverage is not the same as Contract coverage. The native Verizon coverage is the same, but contract users benefit from partnership agreements that provide roaming coverage in areas where Verizon itself does not have great coverage. Compare them in Missouri and Oklahoma for instance.

I have prepaid and appreciate it despite this difference.

Regarding the data on Straight Talk.

You can monitor your data usage on these phones and I highly suggest you check it as soon as you activate your phone because data is being constantly used and you are not using it!

I do NOT use the data at all on my phone and after only one week I had reached their 'so-called' threshold for throttling and I never used any data!

Straight Talk is heavily all hooked up with google. There were all these programs running in the background eating up all your data. I went in and disabled as many as I could that they hadn't hooked up with the actual phone usage so you couldn't disable them. :R
And btw they run even if you shut off the data tab.

Go to:
1. Settings
2. Data Usage
3. Scroll down and see all what is running eating data and they actually show you how much
4. You can go into some of them and disable them completely and others you only can disable the background usage.