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Verizon iPhone Wireless Hotspot to Cost an Additional $20/Month

I'm currently tethering for free with my rooted Droid X...you mad Verizon? :cool:

Come this summer, I'll be doing the same thing with my jailbroken iPhone 5.
 
Nothing you've said or cited JPhillips justifies what you've claimed. More to the point, you didn't just say it was a customer grab. You also said that Verizon has stopped offering unlimited data to all phones but the iPhone. Please acknowledge that you didn't know what you were talking about and couldn't be bothered to check.

Then you can make whatever editorial claims you want, your footing firm and in no way weakened by completely made-up crap. You were wrong. Why not just own up to it? It seems like your being called on it made you hate Verizon more.

I'm not being a fanboy. No carrier is perfect, nor right for everyone. I'm just a big fan of reality, and facts, and reasoned argument. You've been loose with all three, JPhillips.
 
Again i'm waiting on 1 tangible thing the verizon iphone can do AT&T's cant.



That's what i thought........ "can you hear me now" lol
 
Reaper0bot0 said:
Nothing you've said or cited JPhillips justifies what you've claimed. More to the point, you didn't just say it was a customer grab. You also said that Verizon has stopped offering unlimited data to all phones but the iPhone. Please acknowledge that you didn't know what you were talking about and couldn't be bothered to check.

Then you can make whatever editorial claims you want, your footing firm and in no way weakened by completely made-up crap. You were wrong. Why not just own up to it? It seems like your being called on it made you hate Verizon more.

I'm not being a fanboy. No carrier is perfect, nor right for everyone. I'm just a big fan of reality, and facts, and reasoned argument. You've been loose with all three, JPhillips.
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I was wrong about the current status of Verizons unlimited data plans.
 
Small White Car said:
Wireless hotspot. Haven't you been paying attention?
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WOW, someone needs to brush up on the difference between hardware & software.

When Apple releases IOS4.3 sometime in the next.... (my guess is 2-3 weeks) the mobile hotspot will be built into the devices OS. If AT&T wants to offer a plan to support that they can.

This is opinion:
Since AT&T already offers teethering its not a far stretch to offer mobile hotspot support. Secondly VZ is doing it so of course AT&T will, its just good buisness
 
Hey, at least they give you extra data for that 20 dollars. That's better than AT&T's paying for the right to tether (and you don't get extra data and you're stuck with at most a 2 GB plan for all your data needs, tethering and just using the phone). Even if you can only use the 2GB they give you for the hotspot (and any extra tethering you get charged), you still have unlimited on the phone where as AT&T you have to share the 2GB between phone and tethering.

Honestly, I would say Verizon is offering the better deal in general for those that will use the phone a lot (and don't have much wifi access). You can get unlimited + AT&T is better solely if you aren't going to use it much or have a lot of wi-fi access that you don't need the 3G much.

On the other hand, if this is what plans are going to be like when my plan runs out (that is almost 2 years away so anything can happen by then), there is absolutely nothing Verizon offers me that is worth bothering changing for. I have unlimited grandfathered and I don't need tethering/hotspots to justify paying extra for it. That's a relief for me honestly cause I don't particularly want to change and it makes it easier.
 
JPhillips173 said:
WOW, someone needs to brush up on the difference between hardware & software.
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Then you shouldn't have asked what the difference between AT&T's iPhone and Verizon's iPhone is. If that's not what you wanted to know then you should've made the question more specific. All I can do is answer the questions you ask, not the ones you wanted to ask.
 
MarkNY said:
Having to pay for stuff sucks. At&t and Verizon have spent billions building out their networks. How dare they ask us to pay for it. Frankly, I wouldn't want to be on a network that offered unlimited data -- too much opportunity for some leacher to soak up bandwidth and not leave any for me. I doubt At&t and Verizon will even be able to pay back the money they borrowed for the network build-out, let alone earn some type of obscene profits from us.

For those complaining, why don't you suggest a pricing scheme that will allow the networks to pay back their creditors AND satisfy you.

Personally, I'd like a pay-per-byte plan and eliminate double-dipping, but the networks think that would bring in less revenue...honestly, I think the networks are pretty much screwed regardless.
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Verizon just announced today that they made 4 billion dollars this quarter. They aren't hurting for cash.
 
GFLPraxis said:
Wait, what?

Isn't Verizon's plan unlimited?

Unlimited plan but 2 GB cap on tethered data?

I was about to say that Verizon charging to tether made sense since they are providing unlimited data, but...if they're capping it...
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Could be that they are offering unlimited data for just on the phone but you will only be able to use 2GB as a hotspot.
 
tjb1 said:
Verizon's 4G network isnt even going to be Nationwide until 2013 as stated by VERIZON. Why would they kill the unlimited data plan for a phone that doesn't support 4G/LTE and when the 4G/LTE network wont cover the current 3G network until 2013. Learn something, get it from the horse's mouth not the pig bloggers.


FORGOT THE PICTURE, here you are Mr.Jphillips
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That's a nice graph....
I'll stick with the quote directly from the horses mouth....

"Speaking with Bloomberg, Verizon Wireless CFO, John Killian stated that, “We [Verizon Wireless] will probably need to change the design of our pricing where it will not be totally unlimited, flat rate”
 
If it's a Verizon MiFi you can call in and have the plan changed to $35 for three gigs or $50 for five gigs. Just a thought.
 
stewart715 said:
This is exactly the same for all devices. This isn't news. Tethering of any sort has always been $20 for 2GB transfer.
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I had no idea. I've had a Droid Eris on Verizon for a year now, and I tether all the time to my netbook and iPad, and never paid $20 extra. I just use a (root-only) Android application that turns the phone into a hotspot. I presume this is what future Verizon iPhone users will do as well. I mean, has anyone actually ever paid AT&T's ransom?

Sidenote, texting... texts are just data, so I use Google Voice, which treats them as such. If I didn't have to have a voice plan, I'd only purchase data and use GV for everything.
 
My contract on the MiFi expires in 2 weeks. So, once that is up, I will either go with the $20 iPhone plan or pick up a Virgin Mobile MiFi for $40 a month and no contract.
 
JPhillips173 said:
That's a nice graph....
I'll stick with the quote directly from the horses mouth....

"Speaking with Bloomberg, Verizon Wireless CFO, John Killian stated that, “We [Verizon Wireless] will probably need to change the design of our pricing where it will not be totally unlimited, flat rate”
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So the Verizon website isnt good enough? Just like Activision charging for online gameplay. You fools will believe anything a blog says.

Heres my blog...

Today I spoke with Verizon Wireless CFO John Killian. During the interview he stated that, "We [Verizon Wireless] will be giving free upgrades to anyone who purchases the iPhone 4 between the release on our network [Verizon Wireless] and the release of the iPhone 5 on our network [Verizon Wireless]."

Eat it up.
 
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