Verizon’s unlimited data plan to push up daises in July if you want 4G LTE
If you are a devout and long standing customer of Verizon, long enough that you are grandfathered and enjoying unlimited data for only $30 a month, if you want to move to 4G LTE you will have to give it up according to Verizon CFO Fran Shammo, who spoke about it at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference.
The ex post facto law as layed down by Verizon wireless is set to role out this July and in the following months, but there is some sort of reprieve in that once you move to 4G LTE service you will be on a shared data plan. This Shared Data Plan will allow users to share a single pool of data between multiple devices, as many devices as you like which may turn out advantageous for families.
AT&T also had some bad news for customers back on March 1st, 2012 from the Wall Street Journal where AT&T decided to implement a new policy whereby any smartphone user that exceeds a limit of 3gb and 5gb for 3G and 4G LTE respectively will be throttled, which was happening anyway, but now it’s in writing as policy. Let’s say you have 3 gb allotted per month, which is probably ok for the average user, but the cap not only stands for overall throughput but also your bandwidth or download/upload speed is throttled down. So 3gb may sound ok, but as reports flood in, things are taking longer to transfer for customers on AT&T wireless.
Most customers won’t notice this too much, but if your a Verizon or AT&T customer, hopefully better options to come down the road for anyone that relies on wireless mobile for their primary internet service. If your an avid user both AT&T and Verizon have been throttling your service anyway, but now you might have to pay for your overages with Verizon, we shall see.
Remember paying AOL by the minute when they charged as an ISP? I am still waiting for the day that mobile internet service is just available for everyone at a flat rate, paying by the mb is just crazy talk. No prices have been announced just yet but stay tuned to Pinstripe Magazine for more up to date info on unlimited data plan changes.
