Unlimited Data

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sfsmadrush wrote:

Agree with Jim here.  I know I can live without it I just don't want to LOL.  My usage ranges all over the place...if I have to say an average it would probably be 5Gb, it's just certainly nice not to have to worry about usage.  If I happen to watch a few movies I can, or watch baseball, or whatever.  If I end up on a tiered plan (which I'm certain I will at some point), it just means I have to be careful about what I do.  I don't like it but "that's the way the cookie crumbles" (points for reference).

I know there's multiple reasons for the way it is (money making, technology limits, customer abuse, political pandering, etc, etc) but I keep dreaming that one day the whole tiered pricing model for everything goes away and I can pay a certain amount per month for a service regardless of how much I use it.  But like everything else, I'll just have to weigh it out as to whether it's worth the cost to keep it for as long as Verizon keeps their true unlimited available.

Ok, I'm done.  *goes back to listening to Pandora* LOL

Here's the thing even most wired internet is no longer unlimited and hasn't been for a long time. Sure the caps are higher and the overages are better but it's still not unlimited. And yet somehow wireless is supposed to offer BETTER than this? Wireless will never be a better option than wired. Call from an old fashioned POTS line to another POTS line and compare that quality to even the best mobile to mobile call. Night and day. Even VoLTE won't be better than POTS, but it will be close.

Yes something close to unlimited if not unlimited itself will come back. Perhaps in 8-10 years. By then Verizon will have 4G not only in the 700 MHz they have now but also the AWS spectrum( which they will be deploying later this year ) the 600 MHz spectrum they'll get from the OTA TV auctions and refarming of their 1X and 3G spectrum. Not to mention they will have upgraded to LTE Advanced by then. Plus there will probably be some other additional advances in bandwidth allocation. One again this will take the greater part of 8-10 years. That's not to say that caps won't go up in between, they will. just not enough to satisfy the "I want unlimited data" crowd.

[liars___]

Then why are you on here all day and night BRIAN68? Sure hope you do not work for Verizon. Their goal is to downsize employees. Moron

[#3]

Why are YOU here? You clearly hate Verizon thus one would think you would no longer be a customer and since this is a forum for Verizon customers and if you are not one then there really isn't a point to you being here. Also why are you stalking me?

[#4]

That's good.  Cost control is a good thing.

[Heretic1989]

Data Hogs? Abusers? Those words could be funny under a different context. In this case they're so untrue that it's not funny.

VZW, along with the other wireless carriers, made data usage, especially unlimited data usage, a selling a point. So what if someone uses 60gb a month watching a movie every day or night. So what if someone uses even more data streaming music and/or videos. Bottom line, so what if someone uses their smartphone for more than just making and receiving phone calls.

Unfortunately too many of my (our) fellow smartphone users have short attention spans. Or suffer from crs.

You see, i remember reading on the the countless tech websites how when vzw along with the other wireless carriers announced their unlimited data plan(s) were asked the question; Will you be able to handle the increased traffic (usage)?

Guess what their answer was?

[scarshapedstar]

It's because people can use data for all the things that Verizon used to charge for. Old plan was limited voice/text (charging for text is an outright scam, given that they just get tacked onto the phone's check-ins with the tower, btw) and all-you-can-eat data, but with a multitude of VOIP and messaging apps, the writing was on the wall and they had to find a new revenue stream - now you can call all you like but god help you if you try to actually use that 4G at capacity for more than one hour a month.

Now when Samsung boasts features like being able to go to a friend's house and stream movies to their TV from your own hard drive back home, Verizon sees great big dollar signs - which is why I'm never giving up my unlimited data. I'm not stupid. Let other people fall for the "the future is the past, dump your data" propaganda.

[#7]

Verizon no longer sells unlimited data plans.  This is all moot.

[scarshapedstar]

They do if you don't fall for the Share Everything trap. That $600 'savings' in the contract doesn't seem so hot when you multiply the cost of $20-$30 a month to have a non-trivial data plan by 24 months.

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Verizon no longer sells unlimited data plans, period.  You cannot renew your grandfathered unlimited data plan.  If you sign a new contract, you cannot get a new unlimited data plan.  All you can do is KEEP YOUR EXISTING GRANDFATHERED DATA PLAN by not signing a new contract and not buying a new subsidized phone.

[scarshapedstar]

Yeah, that's what I meant. Thanks for clarifying. But it's not exactly a moot point given that, I dunno, 90% of their customers had the option to go unsubsidized (though most probably didn't realize it).