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Verizon to end unlimited data plan. They let people keep theirs even if you switch from 3G to 4G. Now, switching will mean you lose unlimited. So, go upgrade now.
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May 17th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Cell phone service in the US is already double the price of Europe, and they’re trying to get their customers to pay even more? One day their buisness model is going to crash down on them really hard.
May 17th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Or go with someone else, if you can. There’s a reason I will never deal with Verizon ever again.
On a related note, I’m perfectly happy with Sprint and my Unlimited Data plan that’s actually, y’know, unlimited.
May 17th, 2012 at 10:11 am
Drake, did you read this? I warned you.
May 17th, 2012 at 10:15 am
I pay for internet at home.. no need to pay for it everywhere else. Im sticking with a pre-3G smartphone until I can get one that I dont have to subscribe to a data plan.
Paying $60 extra on top of an already $170 a month bill is absurd.
May 17th, 2012 at 10:22 am
Jake: Isn’t Sprint’s plan limited to that fake stuff like ringtone downloads, and not the real internet?
May 17th, 2012 at 10:46 am
HL: fine asshole I will get there shortly.
May 17th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Divemedic:
No.
May 17th, 2012 at 11:46 am
Just a note amid the flames: in January, I shut down my old VZW net book, and got a 4G tablet (Xoom). The 3G plan for the net book had been $60 + 10 for 5 gigs and the phone line. I get by on 2 gigs now for $30. The tablet doesn’t hog bandwidth like the Windoze net book did. With 4G, I’ve seen speeds as high as 33 gb down and 9 gb up, and the tablet runs faster than the old Gateway LT2016 did, anyway.
The last device I had unlimited bandwidth on was a Samsung sch-I-760, back in ’09. I don’t think VZW is pulling a fast one here, if you kept your $60 unlimited plan to now, it means you haven’t upgraded devices in 4 or 5 years.
May 17th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Even if you upgrade now, you’ll be forced into a tierd plan as you cycle through the next two years:
CEO – “So, as you come through an upgrade cycle and you upgrade in the future, you will have to go on to the data share plan. And moving away from, if you will, the unlimited world and moving everyone into a tiered structure data share plan.”
Everyone. Including unlimited 4G LTE grandfathered customers. Sucks, but I have a feeling they’ll listen to their customers once the proverbial shit hitteth the fanneth.
May 17th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Divemedic: Nope. Full, real interwebs. I frequently even read this blog on my phone.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Mu: The best part is that available data says they’re still, even with those prices, losing money on their networks – in the sense that the return on investment is negative on broadband build-out.
The problem with “Europe” comparisons is that the US is a lot bigger than Europe. (My favorite comparison being that the drive from Portland, OR to Phoenix is the same distance as London to Moscow.)
It would be shocking if a national broadband wireless network wasn’t more expensive in the US than in Europe.
Jake: I wouldn’t hold my breath on Sprint’s “really unlimited” plans remaining that way over time – precisely for the reasons above, and especially as usage by high-consumption users increases, which it doubly will if anyone cares enough to switch to Sprint to consume really-unlimited broadband.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
(Mea culpa on the failed tag closure. I’d edit it, but I can’t.)
May 17th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
The exponential demand for bandwidth means carriers have to spend exponentially more money to build out networks to support it.
Why people think they shouldn’t have to pay more money to get exponentially more useful phones than what we had a few years ago escapes me.
May 17th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Just a phone: $15. Android phone with unlimited plan $55. I _AM_ paying more for a more useful phone.
No cell phone at all: $0.
I lived for decades without a cell phone let alone having the internet at my fingertips. I can live without them again, what Verizon can’t do is live with me living without if many of us bail.
The problem isn’t so much that their going to tiered plans it’s that the $30 I am paying for unlimited is the same $30 for the bottom rung of the tier. I never use that bottom rung’s worth of data so changing wouldn’t hurt me; but where’s my damn incentive to change? Making that bottom rung $15 would have had me changing and keeping the phone. Now I will likely change to just a phone and the lost $35 a month from me.
May 17th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Yes, but does that phone become useless if the data plan is off? No. Much like your laptop, if you take it down the street with you, without your home internet, can still be a useful tool.
So smart phone, and no internet plan, can still be a useful tool and entertainment machine (you know, when you are waiting for the wife to get done trying on the 50th identical shirt in some-shade-of-color-my-eyes-cant perceive-because-I-have-a-penis)
May 17th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I wonder if “Occupy” agrees with you?
May 18th, 2012 at 7:14 am
A bit like medical care in that respect, eh?