Worst tiered data plans ever haha.. they call that tiered? you're pretty much FORCED to go "unlimited".
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Verizon's Tiered iPhone Data Plans to Debut on July 7th
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SERIOUSLY. Check your facts online. The 75MB plan does not work on smartphones like the iPhone. To be clear - the 75MB plan is for featurephones only.
fois freakin crawls where i live!! a budy of mine lives in a town were you can only use their phone and internet (crazy i know) he has fios and it is like dial up compared to comcast. i'll take the 250gb and super speed!! based on him i don't thinkhe could hit 250gb in a month!! i download like a crazy person and i do get close to the 250 sometimes but you can monitor it. i had a crazy month when i subscribed to usenet and did 2 TB i got shut off and an email. i called they turned it back on. now when i get close i log into my neighbor's unsecured wifi. yes its bad but it's never ben for more than a couple days.
sounds great but i'm sure they won't let people with unlimited plans tap into this multi-thing. i wish i bought an ipad 1 and the unlimited plan!! i alway have a messenger bag with me so i could have ditched my iphone and got vonage or skype on my ipad!!
This may be true today, but with the LTE rollout and continued introduction of video services (see: Netflix on Android phones with HDMI output), these caps will quickly become crippling.
Every day I get a little bit happier with my $30 6GB plan with Rogers in Canada, including tethering. It'll be years until any providers offer that again 
My wife and I went to activate my old Blackberry 2 weeks ago when I first heard they were ending unlimited data. She is eligible for and upgrade in August, and planning on moving to the next-gen iPhone (she'll wait until it comes out) from her ENV 2. The sales rep told us that if you switch platforms your unlimited plan wouldn't carry over. Thanks to you guys we called and found out that it does and the sales rep was misinformed. Now we'll be paying the same amount for unlimited as we would for the 2 GB plan. Thanks!
I thought I saw somewhere that the new pricing was for new members only, and that if you continue renewing your license that your old $30 unlimited plan will be grandfathered in. Has anyone else read this?
Verizon should have thought about these plans.
How are they going to convince anyone to get off their unlimited plan and drop to the 2GB plan for the same price
VZ data tiering plans are poop.
Seriously, they must have something up their sleeves with data sharing plans. These tiers are garbage compared to AT&T, which really aren't fantastic either.
That has been and continues to be reported everywhere. I think I've been reading something like even if you make another cell phone purchase you'll still be grandfathered into unlimited data.
Now whether that extends beyond the next purchase, or how long the policy will last, are unknown. I'd say it's a reasonable assumption that for the next few months to a year at least the grandfather rules will apply.
How do you figure? I'm paying $25/month for 500 megs with Fido (Rogers). It would be $30/month for 1 gig. Plus I'm locked into a 3-year contract.
Where do you get such crap? Seriously, explain to me HOW people going over are automatic streaming 24/7, etc...? Why do people keep exaggerating to such a thing when making a statement.
As shown by NUMEROUS posters here, people don't stream even REMOTELY 24/7 and hit the limit easily. With apps, products, etc....going online, data usage is CONTINUING to sky-rocket and those using GB's are increasing hourly.
How again is a grandmother who wants to watch several Netflix HD shows in a month....an abuser? Can someone explain that to me?
We have people on here claiming to use HUNDREDS of GB's per month....and then we have people using 10-15 and somehow being lumped in with them.
The actual people hitting HUNDREDS of GB's is low....but the actual number of people using multiple GB's and more is growing insanely in todays world.
So, no, those hitting the limit are not even remotely "24/7 streaming users" or even "abusers"
Tried to add a Samsung Convoy last night with a $30 data plan to be grandfathered. It will NOT work. So I ordered a Palm Pixi for overnight delivery this morning...
It clearly depends on people's usage habits. I am on a 500 meg a month plan and I was afraid I'd go over in no time, but it seems like I use around 250 megs a month on average. I'm currently one week into my monthly billing cycle and I've used 69 megs, which extrapolates to about 275-300 megs per month.
"Oh, he clearly doesn't use his iPhone much", you're thinking. But I do... I check Gmail, Twitter and Facebook practically every 10 minutes, day in and day out. I surf the web a bit, I use Google Maps. I buy and download new apps. I watch occasional YouTube videos, but not many.
300 megs seems to go a long way on an iPhone.
Why doesnt everyone just put a Straight Talk SIM card into their iPhones?
$45 unlimited talk/text & web
http://www.straighttalk.com/ServicePlans
$45 unlimited talk/text & web
http://www.straighttalk.com/ServicePlans
If I understand this correctly this is just stupid pricing again... and is NOT usage based billing so people should stop calling it that. This is punitive tiered billing since, and I'm assuming here, that like AT&T they are going to be billing 1GB of overage even if you only go over by 1Kb...
74MB = $10 ($0.135/MB)
76MB = $20 ($0.263/MB)
&
1074MB = $20 ($0.019/MB)
1076MB = $30 ($0.027/MB)
2000MB = $30 ($0.015/MB)
2001MB = $40 ($0.019/MB)
2999MB = $40 ($0.013/MB)
I really wish they'd adopt a true usage based model rather than trying to game the system to find tier price points that exploit users the was they have with cell phone minute packages. One that was priced like this:
Access fee: $10/month and $0.01/MB
Or Access fee: $10/month + tiered usage based rates
Data <500MB = $0.02/MB
Data >500MB = $0.01/MB
Data >1000MB = $0.005/MB
This actually works out to:
74MB = $10+$1.48=11.48
76MB = $10+$1.52=11.52
1074MB = $10+$10+$5+$0.37=25.37
1076MB = $10+$10+$5+$0.38=25.38
2000MB = $10+$10+$5+$5=$30
2999MB = $10+$10+$5+$9.95=34.95
(note the reference to a "usage based model" is in the linked article https://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/20/verizon-dropping-unlimited-data-plan-next-month/ )
74MB = $10 ($0.135/MB)
76MB = $20 ($0.263/MB)
&
1074MB = $20 ($0.019/MB)
1076MB = $30 ($0.027/MB)
2000MB = $30 ($0.015/MB)
2001MB = $40 ($0.019/MB)
2999MB = $40 ($0.013/MB)
I really wish they'd adopt a true usage based model rather than trying to game the system to find tier price points that exploit users the was they have with cell phone minute packages. One that was priced like this:
Access fee: $10/month and $0.01/MB
Or Access fee: $10/month + tiered usage based rates
Data <500MB = $0.02/MB
Data >500MB = $0.01/MB
Data >1000MB = $0.005/MB
This actually works out to:
74MB = $10+$1.48=11.48
76MB = $10+$1.52=11.52
1074MB = $10+$10+$5+$0.37=25.37
1076MB = $10+$10+$5+$0.38=25.38
2000MB = $10+$10+$5+$5=$30
2999MB = $10+$10+$5+$9.95=34.95
(note the reference to a "usage based model" is in the linked article https://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/20/verizon-dropping-unlimited-data-plan-next-month/ )
One way is to not offer a phone upgrade path. If you want the iPhone 5 or future phones you'll have to drop your grandfather clause would be my guess.
I would love to get one of these, however the closest participating store is still too far away. I'm not driving ten hours roundtrip for a SIM.
It doesn't help people who prefer Verizon's CDMA/EV-DO network though.
I'm not seeing the SIM in the online store. The "service card" appears to be an e-mailed PIN to add minutes, not a physical SIM card.
Edit: further research indicates that I would still need to acquire a ~$200 Smarttalk GSM handset for the SIM (the cheaper handsets run on Verizon's CDMA network, hence no SIM), then jailbreak and unlock the smartphone in question to hack it so the IMEI number matches that of the Smarttalk handset.
No thanks.
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