Verizon Confirms $30 Unlimited Plan for iPhone, Cuts $15 Option
Yeah, that's real smart
Here's a nickel's worth of free advice for Verizon 'don't let your mouth write a check that your butt can't cash'
This is suicide.
Your irrelevant reference to the well-publicized study that Droids use more data than iPhones isn't a valid point.
Let me save anyone else's time Googling:
"According to the study, average data consumption on Verizon smartphones is 421 MB as opposed to 338 MB on the iPhone."
Thank you, art23nscu for referencing the fact that the average Verizon user will be paying $5 more per month for unlimited data they don't need at slower speeds. You see, 421 MB is a lot less than 2GB. Just sayin'...
Thank you, drive through.
And if VZW announced a new data plan outside of unlimited you all would still be bitching. Bitch, bitch, bitch. PhoneScoop is more like PhoneBitch. Nobody wins, just the bitch.
You're spot on, in my opinion. That's the primary focus of this forum now. I remember the days when customers would come on here to get help from people inside the industry. Now it's primarily brandfans and insiders bitching about anything and everything they don't like. Customers don't come here much these days (which is good for PhoneCan [plug]).
An overwhelming majority of people who WANT unlimited have no use for it. So even if they use less than 2gb, they'll want unlimited data, even at the cost premium.
Yes, Verizon will get the data hogs, but it's pretty hard to use more than 10-12GB a month without tethering, and Verizon's contract reserves the right to cut you off if they catch you tethering, so they can keep those really heavy users in check (I've never heard of them cutting anyone off for consuming massive data on their device sans tethering though, even if it was 20gb)
It's actually a really smart move on Verizon's part, because it gets people to switch for unlimited, and then when they upgrade, they'...
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They would run the risk of losing the new influx of iPhone users and losing customers before LTE even has a chance to "Wow" them.
Making the switch at LTE will be easier, and people will have a physical difference in speed to help with the understanding of what that cost is for.
Verizon will be fine!!! That's why we're the Nation's largeset and most reliable network!!!
T Bone said:
Put a big sign that says 'data hogs welcome here', encourage all the people using 10,15, 20 GB a month to come to Verizon....then watch as they congest your network and bring it to its knees....
Here's a nickel's worth of free advice for Verizon 'don't let your mouth write a check that your butt can't cash'
This is suicide.
Implying that there is an overwhelming amount of customers using that much data. As a guy that has analyzed 1000's of customers accounts i can tell you that i can count the number of smartphone users that consistantly use more than 5gb on two hands.
The only way to accumulate more than 10gb (as menno previously stated) is to make your device tether outside of ...
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OrionsVantage said:
The only way to accumulate more than 10gb (as menno previously stated) is to make your device tether outside of Verizon Wireless's knowledge, which the iPhone may not be capable of doing.
I hope that if Big Red goes to tiered data pricing, they drop their tethering/mobile hotspot charges. I've been able to do wireless tethering on my Droid 1 since a week after launch when the first hacks started coming out. Give everyone 2-3 GB for $20-30, charge $10/GB for overage and let people go crazy.
What I'd also like to see is some sort of partnership with Netflix or Blockbuster where movie downloads and streams wouldn't charge against your data if you had the feature tied to your VZW account...
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Once 4G and the speeds associated with it become more mainstream, there will be a shift in mindset from subscribers. The faster a device has access to info, the quicker the individual can move on to the next command. Up until now, 3G has not been to a speed tolerable for individuals to want to initiate massive downloads through phones. It has been painstaking.Today's phones are now increasingly getting faster. Between fast phones, fast networks and the inception of new advances in...
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