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Verizon to Drop Unlimited iPhone Data Plans as Soon as This Summer

I will be keeping my unlimited AT&T data plan until they rip it from my dead cold hands.

In the next couple of years as wireless networks get more reliable and faster (although not holding my breath for that) and we consume more media on our devices having no cap on data will be key.
 
Not really surprised. This was going to happen for sure, regardless.

Anyone who didn't think Verizon was going to move to limited data plans was kidding themselves.

I suspect Verizon is letting it slip now trying to get people to switch to Verizon or upgrade to push up the iPhone sales as they might have been below expectations.

Letting people know this will go away and they will be able to keep it for at least an additional contract is likely to motivate more upgrades and sign ups for the iPhone in the short term.
 
Jeremy1026 said:
The carrier hasn't told their customers anything. There is speculation 6 months out that it will happen. Until an official statement is made by VZW they get no credit for forewarning.
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You are correct, but speculation coming from a statement made by the CFO is more than enough warning for me.
 
grandfathered?

My wife has the 3GS with an unlimited plan and I have the iPhone 4 with unlimited. Will we lose that if we upgrade to the iphone 5? If so, I doubt either of us will ever upgrade or own another iPhone until they have unlimited. 2GBs a month after unlimited for 3 years is rough.
 
It was announced from the get-go that the unlimited data was a limited time offer (most likely to get people to buy the iPhone 4 despite an updated handset due later this summer).
 
I'm sure they will do what ATT did last year with the iPhone 4. Any new iPhone customers getting an iPhone5 on Verizon in June/July can't get the unlimited plan any more. Any current customer on Verizon with an iPhone 4 can keep the unlimited plan until you get an iPhone6 which should be LTE and will have the tiered plans ultimately forcing you to give up the unlimited plan if you want to upgrade to the iPhone6.

Not surprising. I think we are in for tiered plans from here on out with major carriers. Hopefully they will adjust how much data you get over time at the same cost. So eventually a 2gb plan might be a 4gb plan down the road and so on
 
This is by no means a surprise. VZW has been hinting at this since before the release. It was the reason some went ahead and upgraded now instead of waiting for the iPhone5 becuase it was suspected that limited data plans would probibly arrive with that release.
 
mlpsponzischeme said:
My wife has the 3GS with an unlimited plan and I have the iPhone 4 with unlimited. Will we lose that if we upgrade to the iphone 5? If so, I doubt either of us will ever upgrade or own another iPhone until they have unlimited. 2GBs a month after unlimited for 3 years is rough.
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You are grandfathered into "unlimited 3g" data. As long as the next iPhone is a "3g" phone then you can upgrade to it. So far all indications point to this for the iPhone5. Now the iPhone6 next year (2012) that will be a different story. If that phone is a LTE phone "4g" then you will probably have to move to a tiered plan to get that phone. By that time maybe they will have different data plans like a 500mb & 5gb. Who knows.
 
I wouldn't mind tiered data plans so much if there were actually tiers instead of just two options, neither of which is particularly attractive.

13.5mb/$1 or ~100mb/$1 and I only average 200-400mb per month. So I'm stuck paying for much more data than I need. Just like minutes and text messages. Odd that. Must just be some random coincidence.

BUT THE MARKET! IT MAKES THINGS BETTER!!!
 
Or, they are hurting to get their numbers up before they report quarterly sales figures and they generate sales by making everything freak out and buy it now. Personally, I'll take the iPhone 5 with limited data. Maybe a $15/mo plan. Would be nice if they offered a cheaper monthly plan with less minutes too. I want an iPhone family plan for $69 with data included. Maybe with 500 combined minutes and 250MB of data.
 
Good thing to impose limits like that, otherwise we'd run out of internet :mad:.
 
Full of Win said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

Unlimited data is the lifeblood of future innovation.
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Improvement:
Free flow of information is the lifeblood of future innovation (and arguably a free society).

Things like unlimited data, online anonymity, and net neutrality enable this freedom of information.
 
Sucks for the NewComers.... When I got my Verizon iPhone on February 10th I was told my unlimited data would be "grandfathered" in and I also get a 22% discount on the plan..... so instead of paying $30 for the plan I pay less then the 2GB teared plan that's $25 on AT&T I pay $23.40. :)
 
edk99 said:
You are grandfathered into "unlimited 3g" data. As long as the next iPhone is a "3g" phone then you can upgrade to it.
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AT&T makes no distinction between 3G and 4G data plans at the moment.
That may change when LTE comes along, but they will allow you to buy and HSPA+ 4G phone (yes, we know it's not really 4G, but neither is LTE) and still keep your unlimited data plane.
 
wow. i just don't understand this. couldn't they raise the price on unlimited instead of getting rid of it completely? stupid phones. just a bunch of racket.
 
i guess the US major cellular providers are just ****** as the canadian ones.

im so glad i got rid of Robbers and went for an unlimited plan

callerid, call fwd, call waiting, etc,
Unlimited incoming and outgoing calls
unlimited text messages sent and recv
unlimited data
unlimited global text messaging
unlimited MMS

$45 + tax a month ($47.25 exactly)
 
ugahairydawgs said:
Who could have foreseen such an unpredictable set of circumstances?!?
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I lolled




even the dumbest Vegas bookie wouldn't have put odds on that one



and let me just say to whoever actually did not see that happening ............... a blind man, on a moonless night, with history's Greatest Snowstormtm coming down in the Heaviest Fog Evertm could see that coming from miles away.
 
Sounds to me like these companies are so set on financing LTE they don't want to pay for everyone to use 3G unlimitedly and they want to throw a cap on it so they get paid more and it works out when a customer goes over their plan and ends up costing the carrier more operating charges.
 
they gave the poor saps that actually bought the vPhone some time to play unrestricted.. that's cute. The rest of us with iPhone 5s will have to pay more to play. All good.. vPhone free right now.
 
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