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Bill Police Launches New Website

We asked. You Answered. We Acted.

Recently, we used a great Market Research firm, Good Run Research (GRR), headquartered in our own Richmond, VA. GRR is led by strategic savant, Stacy Thompson who, with her team, interviewed participants to better understand the landscape and how Bill Police could rocket into the 2020s.

We also had the help of Wythe Ave Consulting with Stacy Buchanan and her team to help hone the messaging. Apparently, if your name is Stacy you are meant to be a marketer.

As a result, in 6 months time, Bill Police has revamped its website and its entire portal offering.

Check out our new look at billpolice.com

Bill Police Launches New Portal

We are excited to announce our new Bill Police Analytics portal! We have been honing our wireless analytics for some time and officially launched our new portal in first quarter 2021.

We have received great feedback from the launch and hope it provides users with easy access to a “one touch” experience that can provide lots of relative data at a glance.

You can get to a demo of the portal from our website at www.billpolice.com and click on the “Request a Demo” button.

And we are….still Protecting Your Wireless Rights….especially for Eric today.

Protecting your Wireless Rights – Popular Mechanics and Bill Police

Because our motto is “Protecting your Wireless Rights:  Right Plan.  Right Price.  Right Result.”,  we love Popular Mechanics for recently publishing an article by Alexander George, The IT Guy titled “Know your (Phone) Rights”.  We are all about Protecting your Rights by Protecting and Serving our customers.

 

What are the issues? 

  1. Unreasonable phone data search and seizure Rights
  2. “Unlimited Plans” and Throttling/Prioritizing Rights  (see also one of our blogs about “Unlimited plans?  Depends….”

You can see this article in Popular Mechanics November 2018

 

What do need to know about Unreasonable Search and Seizure

1. Our Data tied to our names in data centers is protected from unreasonable search and seizure per the Supreme Court 2014 in Riley vs. California

2. Lock your device: “when locked, the information becomes illegal unless the phone is properly unlocked” says George.

3. Encrypt your data

  • Android:  Android encryption is already in place for any devices S7 or later.   Devices can be encrypted at direct boot or using credentialed encryption and you can find out more details here:  https://developer.android.com/training/articles/direct-boot
  • Apple In fact, most modern Apple devices encrypt their contents by default, with various levels of protection. But to protect against someone obtaining your data by physically stealing your device, you need to tie that encryption code that only you know. Get more details here: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-encrypt-your-iphone 

 

What do i need to know about Unlimited Phone Plan Rights? 

1.Know your plan and what to do in an Emergency.

  • Know if your plan is Throttled or Prioritized and at what cutoff point.  Here’s a primer.  
  • Know your usage each month as it relates to this cutoff point
  • If you are a first responder, apply for WPS:   WPS provides Emergency services personnel priority access and prioritized processing in all nationwide and several regional cellular networks.  Here’s more information on it: Wireless Priority Information

 

What else? 

George states….”[It’s] 2019 and we’re still pretending that wireless communication is any less essential to life in the US than potable water or electricity”.

This means that we are so dependent on our devices that suppliers can take advantage of us and our companies by exploiting pricing, services and security because we will not stop using our technology.  

Lets get smart and Protect our Wireless Rights.  We can help because we are ………

…….STILL Protecting your wireless Rights:  Right Plan.  Right Price  Right Result.

What is Verizon Cloud? Here’s the scoop.

We have seen lots of bills this past month containing incorrect Billing for Verizon Cloud.

What is Verizon Cloud? 

Verizon Cloud is storage system offered by Verizon to back up and sync your contacts, photos, videos.

What’s it cost? 

While Contacts-only Verizon Cloud storage is free, 1 TB of storage is $9.99 per month and 500 GB storage is $5 per month after a free one month trial.

  • If you have an iPhone, you probably have iCloud backup.  When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you need more space, you can upgrade to a larger storage plan.
  • If you have an Android Phone, Google is offers the first 15 GB per month for free. and 1 TB of cloud storage available for just $10 per month. 

We like free….so if you are savvy  — we know you are!! — and have an Android or iPhone device, you can get more services for free than is offered with Verizon iCloud.    Our suggestion is get it off your bill and move to your platform storage options.

What else do i need to know?

  1. Our customers have also been receiving weird emails about Verizon Cloud for their iPhone or Android.  Here’s an example:

**It turns out that none of the employees listed in Verizon’s email even had Verizon Cloud and no data had been backed up to the Verizon Cloud.  Odd, huh!

2. We have also been seeing it show up mysteriously on Customer Bills.

  • If this is happening to you either a user has mistakenly click on “yes” to Verizon Cloud but it is unlikely they have stored backup data there unless you have a company policy to do so
  • Contact the user:  in every case we have investigated, no users have used this feature and we have been able to remove the feature and saved either the $5 or $10 per month per user.
  • If  we have said it once, we have said it a bazillon times, check your bill!!

Still protecting your Wireless Rights……especially for Kelly today……………………

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