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Verizon Considers Plans Based On Speed, As Well As Data

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I knew Verizon was going to be evil about LTE

Jayshmay

Nov 17, 2010, 8:57 PM
Can someone tell me what the whole point is in having a fast network, and not use it for mutltimedia? That's what speed is for, video. It won't be much longer til the details of the LTE rate plans are announced, everyone will see what I mean.

When I was with Clear I was using 30-35gb's a month watching a lot of Hulu, news, and porn. And I didn't have to pay $80/mo for it neither!
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muchdrama

Nov 17, 2010, 10:43 PM
Jayshmay said:
Can someone tell me what the whole point is in having a fast network, and not use it for mutltimedia? That's what speed is for, video. It won't be much longer til the details of the LTE rate plans are announced, everyone will see what I mean.

When I was with Clear I was using 30-35gb's a month watching a lot of Hulu, news, and porn. And I didn't have to pay $80/mo for it neither!



When I was with Clear I was using 30-35gb's a month watching a lot of Hulu, news, and porn.

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CellStudent

Nov 17, 2010, 11:56 PM
Jayshmay said:
When I was with Clear I was using 30-35gb's a month...


Can't make any real judgments until actual pricing is leaked/announced, but I think what you'll find is that they will price the service such that it will draw reasonable users in from Tmo, Sprint and AT&T while simultaneously giving all the heavy, heavy users incentive to go with Clearwire and drive them deeper into debt/bankruptcy.

My bet is that we'll find the cost floor on the most cost-effective plans to bottom out at around $7.5/GB on the largest bundles and go up to around $10 - $12 per GB on the smaller bundles.

As for Clear, their business model is very different from Verizon's. Clear wants to sign up as many accounts a...
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