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Leaked memos confirm Verizon's tiered data ambitions



In case you were not entirely convinced by previous reports on Verizon’s intent to give unlimited data plans the axe, look no further than this latest bit of proof.

The documents, obtained by AndroidCentral, confirm much of the previous speculation, which, all told, seems to be pretty bad news for consumers. Here are some of the important bits, many of which have been reported previously:

The pricing: $30 for 2GB, $50 for 5GB, $80 for 10GB. Overages will cost you $10 per GB.
Customers already signed up for Verizon’s $29.99 unlimited plan will be grand fathered in after the new changes are enforced. (But for how long?)
New Verizon customers that jump on board before July 7th will still have access to the unlimited plan. Anyone that signs up after will be out of luck.

With July 7th drawing near, this gives you two weeks to sign up with the current plans. Better get moving.

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetrevi...mbitions/25795

[Eh085zE7]

I know you need the 4g for business reasons. But for all those who have 4g just for the cool gadget, i have to ask how it feels to be the b1tch of a corporate *****.

I use Boost for a reason. There are several other "no contract" prepaid services.

[astonmartinrx371]

Well this may change of course but Verizon's decision to grandfather current users, EVEN ON RENEWED CONTRACTS*, at the current data rates. Is at least good business. *Assuming that part is true. Anyone with a current contract of course is grandfathered in for the length of the contract.

[wvbwxol]

WE shall see.

When i worked for TMobile they called about 10k customers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama to informed them that they would be cancelling their accounts. The cost of roaming vs the amount of money that was being made from those customers, TMobile decided it was better business to just cancel 10k customers with 3 weeks notice. When some asked how they could have prevented it, the only thing you could really suggest was to not roam so much.

They did the same thing to about 5000 prepaid customers. THey didn't spend enough, yet got to use the voicemail on the account because they never let their last 10 cents get used. A coworker of mine was one of them (we were actually outsourcers for TMo, and he was a wheelchair bound guy who was smart enough to beat their system for awhile).

The data misers at Verizon and ATT are going to make it all to easy for some savvy company to undercut them with unlimited data once again.

[marcusdexz]

WE shall see.

When i worked for TMobile they called about 10k customers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama to informed them that they would be cancelling their accounts. The cost of roaming vs the amount of money that was being made from those customers, TMobile decided it was better business to just cancel 10k customers with 3 weeks notice. When some asked how they could have prevented it, the only thing you could really suggest was to not roam so much.

They did the same thing to about 5000 prepaid customers. THey didn't spend enough, yet got to use the voicemail on the account because they never let their last 10 cents get used. A coworker of mine was one of them (we were actually outsourcers for TMo, and he was a wheelchair bound guy who was smart enough to beat their system for awhile).

The data misers at Verizon and ATT are going to make it all to easy for some savvy company to undercut them with unlimited data once again.

Except that the other companies USE the bigger nets as their backbone. If they get too heavy a load expect service to go down. On overloaded cell towers Sprint will route their customers first over Boost if push comes to shove. And Boost doesn't get the best phones either for the same reason. And Boost is owned by Sprint so in reality you are still dealing with sprint. You get what you pay for and for many that's just fine. My contract with Big Red will expire in April and I will of course be looking at other options.

[Pa33anger]

I use straighttalk - $45/mo unlimited talk text and internet. Ya I may not have a "cool" phone but I can call people, text people, and google something if I need to so I'm happy.

[mr.memo]

plan on leaving big red when my contract expires, maybe sooner. I liked Alltel better, but stuck around after Verizon bought them, wish I hadn't. No problems with service, but they cost so much and nothing works in your favor. With Alltel, if in the middle of the billing period you knew you would exceed your minutes or would be outside of the service area you could call them up and change plans and it would be retroactive to the beginning of the billing period. And change it back later no problem. Not so with Verizon, you can change but it is effective the next day, if you've already gone over, too bad. And they took friends and family away from some of the plans. Now you don't get that until you have more minutes, so many that I don't really need it.

Oh well.

Considering Virgin or Boost, but I am hooked on some of my android apps.

[Extipletape]

plan on leaving big red when my contract expires, maybe sooner. I liked Alltel better, but stuck around after Verizon bought them, wish I hadn't. No problems with service, but they cost so much and nothing works in your favor. With Alltel, if in the middle of the billing period you knew you would exceed your minutes or would be outside of the service area you could call them up and change plans and it would be retroactive to the beginning of the billing period. And change it back later no problem. Not so with Verizon, you can change but it is effective the next day, if you've already gone over, too bad. And they took friends and family away from some of the plans. Now you don't get that until you have more minutes, so many that I don't really need it.

Oh well.

Considering Virgin or Boost, but I am hooked on some of my android apps.

Boost has an Android phone

[KukkoDrukko]

Boost has an Android phone

Yeah but it is old tech so it might not run newer apps. Google updates it's map program all the time. That phone cannot run flash so many websites cannot be viewed properly, one of the reasons I'll never own an iPhone. I have a 2 year old Moto Droid and it's getting laggy, boost's phone while NEW is roughly the same tech level(though I can run flash on my phone but it is slooooow). Depending on which apps Bob has this phone might do fine for him. It might do fine for me but I'd sure like the option of something better. So you are still getting screwed by the cell phone companies, they are just picking a different way to do it. I'd pay $500 for a cell phone if I could take it to ANY network I choose.

[UMATURLIN]

Yeah but it is old tech so it might not run newer apps. Google updates it's map program all the time. That phone cannot run flash so many websites cannot be viewed properly, one of the reasons I'll never own an iPhone. I have a 2 year old Moto Droid and it's getting laggy, boost's phone while NEW is roughly the same tech level(though I can run flash on my phone but it is slooooow). Depending on which apps Bob has this phone might do fine for him. It might do fine for me but I'd sure like the option of something better. So you are still getting screwed by the cell phone companies, they are just picking a different way to do it. I'd pay $500 for a cell phone if I could take it to ANY network I choose.

Virgin has a new phone coming out in July that should be pretty good, Motorola Triumph, droid lineage, not as powerful as the top android phones but better than the low end ones, and it has to be better than my lowly Eris,though rooted and running gingerbread it just doesn't have the processing power. The Virign phone will also be stock android, no motoblur or sense. That's worth something. Will wait and see if this is a good phone.

[VomsVomaMew]

Best Buy is taking preorders for the Triumph, $300.

[Anykeylo]

Virgin has a new phone coming out in July that should be pretty good, Motorola Triumph, droid lineage, not as powerful as the top android phones but better than the low end ones, and it has to be better than my lowly Eris,though rooted and running gingerbread it just doesn't have the processing power. The Virign phone will also be stock android, no motoblur or sense. That's worth something. Will wait and see if this is a good phone.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/06...video-roundup/

Yep I've been reading up on that one too. It's like a Droid X but thinner. CPU is a bit slow but not bad and the size is good, camera is good, memory size also good not great. It has HDMI out and a front facing camera which is fantastic. SO yeah it is really good phone.

It is Virgin so that means it runs on Sprint network so it may not be the best phone if you leave the city. But I've heard several that say Sprint does better then there maps suggest at coverage.

[VQdeochratis]

I for one really appreciate y'all talking about this here as otherwise I'd have been in the dark about it all.

I'm another one that longs for Alltel to come back. Have the first verion of Droid on Verizon and cannot imagine going back to a plain cellphone ever. Especially not since my boss is finally coming around to thinking that working remotely isn't such a bad idea!

[womberte]

More info:

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/24...tay-unlimited/