With Unlimited Data Gone, Verizon Touts Data Monitoring

[kdarling]

Absolutely, data charges are subjective. I am basing my understanding of what seems "fair" upon anecdotal pricing from international service providers...from what I hear, Europeans pay much less for those services.

You know what I'm looking forward to, out of all this mess?

The rumors that AT&T and Verizon are going to switch to "data buckets", where any device we own can use data from a shared amount, just as we already have for shared minutes.

I cannot justify buying a data plan for each person in my family, especially since some would use so little each month.

However, I can certainly justify buying a shared data pool. Heck, it'd be cheaper for me than having a bunch of individual data plans, even if the price of that single shared plan goes up.

Thanks for the great comment, stay well friend

Same to you!

 

[shareef777]

You know what I'm looking forward to, out of all this mess?

The rumors that AT&T and Verizon are going to switch to "data buckets", where any device we own can use data from a shared amount, just as we already have for shared minutes.

I cannot justify buying a data plan for each person in my family, especially since some would use so little each month.

However, I can certainly justify buying a shared data pool. Heck, it'd be cheaper for me than having a bunch of individual data plans, even if the price of that single shared plan goes up.



Same to you!

Until you realize a 2GB 'bucket' is $40 a month

 

[oheckyeah]

I think their sales will be about the same, since all iphone carriers have tiered data now.

Only android and blackberry users will switch to Sprint/T-Mobile

Only? Android/blackberry accounts for over half the market share. iPhone isn't that popular...

 

[winston1236]

Screw Verizon and screw the iPhone.

you must be a windows phone att all star!

 

[pdjudd]

You know what I'm looking forward to, out of all this mess?

The rumors that AT&T and Verizon are going to switch to "data buckets", where any device we own can use data from a shared amount, just as we already have for shared minutes.

My understanding is that this would really only benefit people who own multiple devices or have a family plan. It wouldn't help people who just own one device. That point would be negated if the pricing didn't change and the cost for an individual would be the same as the bucket, but I have my suspicions that it won't. It might even mean giving up on an unlimited plan if you still had one (I hope they don't require that!)

 

[mlmwalt]

The wireless carriers complaining about smartphones using up all of their resources/bandwidth and trying to get the manufacturers to chip in on the infrastructure upgrades is like big oil asking the auto-makers to chip in for drilling... Regardless, the customer always pays the cost. Always.

If you don't like to be on the wrong end of the equation, buy shares in the company.

 

[tigres]

Until you realize a 2GB 'bucket' is $40 a month

And if you want to tether it will be capped at 1.5gb, and be 60.

 

[powers74]

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At least AT&T has an app.

 

[KnightsChivalry]

It looks like the best idea would be to get the 75mb per month for 10$ and pay the 10$ overcharge for the gb you will use extra. Anyone hardly uses more then a gb of data a month

 

[unlimitedx]

It looks like the best idea would be to get the 75mb per month for 10$ and pay the 10$ overcharge for the gb you will use extra. Anyone hardly uses more then a gb of data a month

$10 data plan isn't offered for the iPhone, only feature (featureless) phones

 

[pubwvj]

Nasty

Part of what is nasty about this is that we don't have control over our data usage. People send spam, large photos, files, etc that I don't want. It adds up to a lot of data every day that is just junk mail but makes the telephone company profits.

The "Data Calculator" is bogus because it fails to take into account the incoming emails which far, far outweigh my outgoing emails by two orders of magnitude in count and by about seven orders of magnitude in data usage. Scam alert!

Imagine if we had to pay the incoming postage to the US Post Office to receive junk mail in our postal mail box? That would get outlawed pretty fast. Well, the phone companies are doing this too and getting away with it.

 

[Dkrogh]

these data caps are rather generous today, but say in 6 mo to one year, these will be seen as really small since the rollout of icloud with lion and the streaming or whaterver it is with itunes to your iphone and also the rollout of spotify into the us. Other internet streaming like pandora etc. has only started to touch the iceberg and will really grow and take-off further in the next year I think.

 

[Boeing747]

If this next iPhone isn't lte capable(which I imagine it won't be) it will be a very hard sell for Verizon. At&t has cheaper plans and faster 3g.
I pray that Verizon reconsiders. Otherwise they are guaranteed to loose my business.

ummmmm......
this picture demonstrates at&t 's 3g
it's terrible.

 

[hexonxonx]

ummmmm......
this picture demonstrates at&t 's 3g
it's terrible.

How does that demonstrate it? I have got to be missing something here. I can make my iPhone 4 drop to zero bars by holding the band on the side. That doesn't mean that the 3G sucks.

 

[gregorypierce]

As an AT&T customer with an unlimited plan, Verizon no longer has any tangible way to convince me to switch to their network - it would be an extremely costly proposition. Thus for as long as AT&T keeps their unlimited plan, I'm with them.

 

[wordoflife]

Carriers in the US suck.
I will add though, that while AT&T gives a 15% discount on service, Verizon gives an 18% discount. (to me). I think Verizon in general gives greater FAN discounts

 

[goodcow]

Carriers in the US suck.
I will add though, that while AT&T gives a 15% discount on service, Verizon gives an 18% discount. (to me). I think Verizon in general gives greater FAN discounts

Verizon gives me 19% off voice and 20% off data. AT&T gives me 18% off both.

When I first switched to AT&T they screwed up my FAN discount and it was 28%!

 

[carlgo]

In the current political climate the pro-carrier, anti-government powers will be able to stop any regulation of the carriers, so you can bet they will make hay while they can.

Watch them ratchet up their rates. Watch the CEOs make billions. Watch the ads trumpet various technologies that never quite make it to your phone or your area of the country.

 

[jaarso]

As an AT&T customer with an unlimited plan, Verizon no longer has any tangible way to convince me to switch to their network - it would be an extremely costly proposition. Thus for as long as AT&T keeps their unlimited plan, I'm with them.

AT&T no longer has an unlimited plan either. You (and I) still have the AT&T unlimited plan under the grandfather clause. Maybe you meant to say as long as AT&T allows us to keep our grandfathered unlimited plans..............

 

[scaredpoet]

Carriers in the US suck.
I will add though, that while AT&T gives a 15% discount on service, Verizon gives an 18% discount. (to me). I think Verizon in general gives greater FAN discounts

Not always true. Where I work, Verizon gives us a 15% discount, while AT&T gives us 20%. Coverage for both carriers in my neck of the woods is pretty much equal.