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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / February 2004LG VX600 & VX4400B Ringtones and Wallpapers
I just switched to verizon from cingular and i have the lg vx6000 and my wife has the lg vx4400b. We do not have the link cable for either, yet. Is there anyway or anywhere i can get free ringtones and wallpapers? I plan on getting the link cables for both phones in the future whenever i can scrape up some extra cash and i already have the bitpim prog downloaded. I just wanted to know if there is anything i can do until i get the cables? Any help would be appreciated. Thanx. I'm trying to find free ringtones for my vx6000 too. can someone pleas tell us where to get some from. Than - ablasia have you tried the Get It Now program fromVerizon >have you tried the Get It Now program fromVerizon Have you seen the prices for things under GetItNow??? Expression "highway robbery" readily comes to mind! Some time around Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:56:25 -0500 (give or take a month), someone who says they are named Andrew White <nospamers@allowed.at.all.net> fired up the tubes on the teletype and rambled on about: >>have you tried the Get It Now program fromVerizon > >Have you seen the prices for things under GetItNow??? Expression >"highway robbery" readily comes to mind! I didn't care that my 4400B didn't come with games... until I was stuck at the airport. I downloaded some games and still use them so it was worth it to me. I have not used get it now for wallpapers or ringers. -W >Some time around Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:56:25 -0500 (give or take a month), someone who says they are >named Andrew White <nospamers@allowed.at.all.net> fired up the tubes on the teletype and rambled on [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >downloaded some games and still use them so it was worth it to me. I have not used get it now for >wallpapers or ringers. I very much dislike the fact that my 4400B came without games precisely because of the type of situations that you described: airport, doctor's office, ride on a bus, etc. I used games on my previous phone all the time. The reason the phone comes with no games is that Verizon wants to charge customers extra for them. It's not enough that the phone prices at Verizon are higher than any of its competitors, and that their monthly fees are higher as well, they have to squeeze a bunch of extra money for what should've been provided with the phone! > charge customers extra for them. It's not enough that the phone prices > at Verizon are higher than any of its competitors, and that their > monthly fees are higher as well, The thing I can't figure out is howcome Verizon has the lowest ARPU. See bottom graph on http://nordicgroup.us/ssub/4q2003.htm Are the other carriers that much better at nickel and diming people? Roger >> charge customers extra for them. It's not enough that the phone prices >> at Verizon are higher than any of its competitors, and that their [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Are the other carriers that much better at nickel and diming people? Other carriers are not bloated baby-Bell bureaucracies like Verizon! Changing a name is not the same as changing the business model. Er, isn't Cingular a joint venture of some sort between BellSouth and SBC (formerly Southwestern Bell)? Two of the biggest "Baby Bells" out there. Verizon's heritage is only half-Bell (Bell Atlantic + GTE (one of Bell's first competitors, wasn't it?)).... And AT&T (of "AT&T Wireless"), of course, used to be Ma Bell herself! Maybe Sprint is a relative newcomer (if one can be nearly 30 years old and still be a "newcomer"), but FWIW I'd argue that all the "bigs" in the cellular world are well-established bureaucracies, and there are some with even closer ties to to Ma Bell and/or Baby Bells than Verizon.... L. > >> charge customers extra for them. It's not enough that the phone prices > >> at Verizon are higher than any of its competitors, and that their [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Other carriers are not bloated baby-Bell bureaucracies like Verizon! > Changing a name is not the same as changing the business model. Almost correct, Verizon is a marriage of Bell Atlantic and New York Bell. > Er, isn't Cingular a joint venture of some sort between BellSouth and SBC > (formerly Southwestern Bell)? Two of the biggest "Baby Bells" out there. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Other carriers are not bloated baby-Bell bureaucracies like Verizon! > > Changing a name is not the same as changing the business model. Sorry, I maintain that Verizon is GTE + Bell Atlantic. Here's one reference: From http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000630S0004, Verizon Becomes Official June 30, 2000 (3:00 a.m. EST) By Margie Semilof, CRN Two old names in the telecommunications industry became history Friday with the completion of the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. The New York-based carrier will now be known as Verizon Communications. The merger was marked by the spinoff of GTE's Internet division, GTE Internetworking, into a separate company, now known as Genuity. Genuity (stock: GENU) launched its own initialpublic offering this week. "In '84, the Bells fought to retain the Bell name," said Peter Bernstein, president of Infonautics Consulting, Ramsey, N.J. "Now, with just Bell South, we've jettisoned all the Bell names and the telephony associations." Verizon's management includes Charles Lee, former GTE CEO and now Verizon chairman and co-CEO, and Ivan Seidenberg, former Bell Atlantic CEO and now Verizon president and co-CEO. L. > Almost correct, Verizon is a marriage of Bell Atlantic and New York Bell. > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > Other carriers are not bloated baby-Bell bureaucracies like Verizon! > > > Changing a name is not the same as changing the business model. > Almost correct, Verizon is a marriage of Bell Atlantic and New York Bell. Nope. You missed two steps. Verizon was formed from GTE and Bell Atlantic, as stated earlier (I worked for GTE at the time, so this part I experienced directly). Bell Atlantic had earlier absorbed NYNEX, which in turn was a merger of New England Telephone & Telegraph and New York Telephone. Hey, Wasn't the original post for this discussion asking for ringtones for VX6000 and VX4400b. Seems like everybody discussed everything BUT what was originally requested. What about the ringtones? > > Almost correct, Verizon is a marriage of Bell Atlantic and New York Bell. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > NYNEX, which in turn was a merger of New England Telephone & Telegraph > and New York Telephone. > > The thing I can't figure out is howcome Verizon has the lowest ARPU. > > See bottom graph on http://nordicgroup.us/ssub/4q2003.htm [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Other carriers are not bloated baby-Bell bureaucracies like Verizon! > Changing a name is not the same as changing the business model. Ok, you have me confused. Given Verizon has the most expensive plans, yet the lowest ARPU, that implies they do very little to make up the difference. On the other hand, carriers with lower priced plans yet higher ARPUs must be doing it through some form of nickel and diming. I can't understand the relevance of your comment. We are not talking about profit per user, or why plans are more expensive. I actually see VZW doing very little nickle and diming. About the main way they do it is the GIN stuff. But BitPim has negated people incurring charges for common things suck as ringtones and wallpapers, they they otherwise would have done via GIN, certainly at least the phones in this thread. Roger |
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