Mike Mercury
07-07-2011, 9:45am
Verizon Ending Unlimited Data Plans
Beginning July 7 Verizon Wireless will stop offering customers its $30-a-month unlimited data plan, and moved to tiered data usage plans: $30 a month for 2GB, $50 for 5GB and $80 for 10GB.
The decision moves Verizon in line with similar tiered offerings from competitors AT&T and T-Mobile.
An analysis by Consumer Reports shows few of Verizon’s customers will be affected by the change, since a majority don’t come close to using 2GB of data a month.
“Our past reporting, as well as other more recent reports from the likes of MSNBC, indicate that data usage, even by Verizon smartphone users, averages no more than about 500MB per month,” their analysis reads. “And many customers, of course, use far less than that — including owners of some regular phones.”
The Consumer Reports analysis notes that Verizon has not introduced a low-price tiered plan for users who only send and receive minimal amounts of data each month, unlike AT&T and T-Mobile.
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Motorola Droid 3 now available with Verizon Wireless
If you had been waiting for the Motorola Droid 3 to come available with Verizon, your wait is now over. The handset (along with the not so unlimited data plans for new customers) has come available on the Verizon Wireless website. The Droid 3 is priced at $199.99 on a two-year agreement and brings features to include a 4 inch qHD display, slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard, dual-core 1GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, microSD card slot and an 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus and 1080p video recording. And lastly, the Droid 3 is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
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Beginning July 7 Verizon Wireless will stop offering customers its $30-a-month unlimited data plan, and moved to tiered data usage plans: $30 a month for 2GB, $50 for 5GB and $80 for 10GB.
The decision moves Verizon in line with similar tiered offerings from competitors AT&T and T-Mobile.
An analysis by Consumer Reports shows few of Verizon’s customers will be affected by the change, since a majority don’t come close to using 2GB of data a month.
“Our past reporting, as well as other more recent reports from the likes of MSNBC, indicate that data usage, even by Verizon smartphone users, averages no more than about 500MB per month,” their analysis reads. “And many customers, of course, use far less than that — including owners of some regular phones.”
The Consumer Reports analysis notes that Verizon has not introduced a low-price tiered plan for users who only send and receive minimal amounts of data each month, unlike AT&T and T-Mobile.
http://img.ehowcdn.co.uk/article-page-main/ehow-uk/images/a07/vc/hs/sakar-kitty-text-messenger-instructions-800x800.jpg
Motorola Droid 3 now available with Verizon Wireless
If you had been waiting for the Motorola Droid 3 to come available with Verizon, your wait is now over. The handset (along with the not so unlimited data plans for new customers) has come available on the Verizon Wireless website. The Droid 3 is priced at $199.99 on a two-year agreement and brings features to include a 4 inch qHD display, slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard, dual-core 1GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage, microSD card slot and an 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus and 1080p video recording. And lastly, the Droid 3 is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
http://www.geekologie.com/2010/11/11/r2-boner2.jpg