Verizon Tiered Data Plans Will Start at $30/2GB

[JMcEntegart]

If you're thinking of moving to Verizon, you might want to do it before July 7.

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[gmarsack]

What a massive rip...

 

[mayne92]

...I got in just in time. Hoping for grandfathered in

 

[bourgeoisdude]

No pre-2GB plans for under $30? Seriously, does Verizon WANT to be the most expensive carrier? Maybe they secretly love Sprint?

 

[velocityg4]

I don't mind the data pricing so much as the per device pricing. How about just selling the 2, 5, 10, 12 &c data blocks? After which it does not matter how many smart phones, tablets, laptops &c you have connected to that data connection or whether each has it's own individual connection or is tethered.

I could not see spending $30 per phone for internet for a family that is just ridiculous. Until that changes I'll stick with my unlocked iPhone on a regional GSM carrier with unlimited CDMA data for $10 per phone. Which is all the bandwidth I need to check e-mail, sync my contacts and calendar. Plus the occasional map or web search.

I can understand charging extra for tethering on an unlimited plan or per device on an unlimited plan but not on finite data blocks. Otherwise you'd get families of eight on an unlimited plan all using smartphones and tethering all their laptops and desktops to a 4g router.

 

[captainnemojr]

What a joke. I figured Verizon would want to compete with AT&T and maybe do 5GB for $30, but now it's 2GB for $30 while AT&T is $25. I doubt I'll be grandfathered in for life. Maybe the life of my phone, but as soon as I upgrade, then I get screwed. I hope Sprint wins its fight to stop the AT&T merger, because slowly but surely, we're all going to pay more for less.

 

[Guest]

still milking my AT&T plan for non smartphone data plan (last phone i had with them was my old v300) $20 month unlimited with my 3g htc bought it out of pocket online 5 ys ago.
it has also been tethering thought wifi, Bt and usb no extra charge.I saved over $2000
i will buy my next phone unlocked out of AT&T plan and continue 😉

 

[mdillenbeck]

Verizon Wireless introduced blazing speeds with LTE and the LG Revolution - an android 2.2 phone to stream videos from your favorite websites along with the Netflix app to stream your favorite movies. Now Verizon Wireless introduces a plan that will cost you more than a home mortgage if you actually use the phone as the multimedia streaming device we designed it to be.

*sigh* I know, just use wifi... but if I were to do that, then I would pull out my bloody laptop. Heck, odds are I am at home so I'd use my desktop computer. Guess they'll give me the boot for my grandfathered account when I actually use the phone to watch Netflix on the go.

Also, as velocityg4 stated, I don't mind paying for tethering on an unlimited plan - but if you are charging me for usage, then you shouldn't charge extra for tethering/hotspot. Also, if you are going to charge for LTE hotspots, then they better fix the bugs with the 3G/4G switching disconnections. (I don't have the Charge, but the Revolution and Thunderbolt have the same issue - use the hotspot and 4G cuts to 3G and kills your internet connection, but tether it with a USB cable and it works just fine.)

 

[ikefu]

Well, seeing as how AT&T is the devil and now Verizon wants to be the rich man's game...

Here we come Sprint! My buddy just switched from AT&T to Sprint and is paying way less for way more. Think I may be joining him when my VZW contract comes up even though I'm technically grandfathered in. Sprint seems to be the last of the national carriers that cares about not robbing its customers blind.

 

[lassik]

I'm from the UK and pay £5 (about $9) a month for 500mb (T-Mobile). This is waaaay more than enough if you've got a wireless network at home.
Though, all I do on my phone is check email/internet, look at Facebook every so often and download a few apps a week and I never even reach half my cap. I never even worry about using too much.

I couldn't imagine paying $30 for 2GB, to me, it's far too much money for something I'd never take advantage of.

 

[chronicbint]

So glad I am not in the US, I pay £12.50 a month for unlimited data(including tethering), 5000 minutes, 5000 texts. You get severely shafted over there.

 

[The Greater Good]

[citation][nom]chronicbint[/nom]So glad I am not in the US, I pay £12.50 a month for unlimited data(including tethering), 5000 minutes, 5000 texts. You get severely shafted over there.[/citation]

Yeah, but see... everything else is cheaper here in the States. Gas, Food, electronics... So yeah, we pay more for cell usage... but everything else cost less than it does in most parts of the world. One thing being more expensive vs. everything but that one thing. Which do I pick? Hummmmmm...

 

[anonymous32111]

Technology is becoming so advanced, new wireless frequency's made available for public use, graphene transistors and what not, new algorithims to speed up fiber optic data transfers to unbelievable speeds.. yet all these phone companies want to do is bend you over.

I swear one of these days im going to start my own corporation, put up graphene switches and superior wireless transmitters all over the us.. then eventually give the whole U.S at least gigabit internet.

After that.. free wireless phones and internet for everybody, screw these phone companies.. sad part is this is probably actually possible if people really wanted to make it happen. Oh well guess ill have to wait till the U.S upgrades from Pac-Bell system... oh too bad that's never ganna happen we will sell people terabit internet before we upgrade ours.

 

[dark_lord69]

"5GB – $50/month"
What a ripoff!!
I pay $50 a month and I can download 1,000,000 GB per month if I want to (unlimited).
Plus it's faster than Verizon.

I don't understand how they justify thier prices.

All these phone companies can suck my d***!!
(Except for Boost Mobile thier prices are acutually reasonable.)
You can get unlimited everything for as little at $35 a month with no contracts.

 

[Guest]

why the hell does it matter what I do with my data? This different pricing for tethered vs non tethered is crap

 

[hoof_hearted]

This charging extra for tethering is wrong. If I am paying for the data, then where I choose to utilize it is up to me. Once the data passes into my ip network, then whether I feed it directly to my eyes or feed it to another ip network then to my eyes should not invoke anther fee, especially since I am supplying the hardware and resources for the second network -- it has no effect on their ability to deliver it whatsoever, so why am I penalized?

And I disagreee with a tethering limitation even on an unlimited plan. If they want to market the word "unlimited", then by golly I wan unlimited. That should mean I can stream netflix 24/7 and not pay any extra. Raise the price for "unlimited" if need be, but don't penalize folks because they didn't follow your indirect crutch, that being them counting on you just using it sparsely or limiting yourself to the "small" device.

@dark_lord69 I have actually thought about going boost once my AT&T contract is up (either that or Sprint), just have to research a suitable android device to replace my iphone 3gs, which I currently have jailbroke, and can tether with without paying extra.

 

[masterasia]

$10 family data plan from AT&T for me on my Unlocked Android phone. That's awesome. Sucks to be you if you're with Verizon. Sucks to be me too cuz I'm with AT&T. Damnit...it just sucks to have a cell phone nowadays. My bill just keeps going up every year for stuff I don't need.

 

[Nakal]

In Other News:

Sprint sends Thank You letters to Verizon and AT&T.. lol

 

[kj3639]

Hahahaha I went with Sprint for a reason.

 

[TEAMSWITCHER]

I wish congress would get off their collective butts and do something bout these carriers. Right now $30.00 gets you unlimited gigabytes. With these new prices, $30.00 gets you only 2 gigabytes. This is by far the most egregious price increase in the history of mankind.

Consumers in the US are getting squeezed. I think that they should mandate smart phones without data-plans - voice only. That way people can have the Droids and iPhones they want, but still pass on the expensive monthly fees. That would provide more incentive to compete on the data plans.

Congress? How about doing something useful for a change.