Verizon’s tiered data plans go live, including $30 for a smartphone buffet or $15 for 150MB
It's October 28th, and Verizon's full suite of data plans have changed just as foretold -- if you want to save a few bucks, you can revise your megabyte-munching lifestyle right now. There's no need to fear for unlimited 3G smartphone data, as it's still available for the usual $29.99, but that plan's no longer required when buying a new Droid, as you can opt for a new $14.99 plan if you can bare to live with just 150 megabytes.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 28th, Data Plan, dataplan, droid, lifestyle, longer-required, mifi, plans, smartphone-data, tiered data, vzw
MetroPCS turns attention away from unlimited momentarily, launches Walmart-exclusive bucket plans
A quick check of MetroPCS' site reminds us what these guys are all about -- unlimited voice, data, and messaging for less than you'd pay with any of the big guys -- but it looks like they might be exploring a shift in strategy with a handful of new prepaid packages that have launched exclusively through Walmart stores. For $20 you can get 500 minutes and 500MB of data, while moving up to $30 gets you 1,000 minutes and just 100MB of data -- both plans include unlimited messaging -- while a third plan for just $10 nets 200 voice minutes and unlimited incoming texts. Unsurprisingly, the packages aren't available with either MetroPCS' smartphones nor with the Craft , its just-launched LTE handset -- but considering how modern phones of both the smart and not-so-smart variety are emphasizing data and text features over voice, we wouldn't be surprised to see the regionals start to experiment more and more with interesting buckets
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: buckets, data, Data Plan, features, guys, handful, messaging plan, mobile, Packages, regionals, stores, turns-attention, voice, voiceplan, walmart
Verizon’s tiered data plans hitting October 28, smartphones still getting unlimited option?
We'd told you back in July that Verizon would migrate away from unlimited data and toward a tiered model very quickly; turns out it wasn't quite as quickly as we'd thought, but as Ivan Seidenberg said last month , it's still going down. We've now been tipped that the switchover is expected on October 28, and this is how it all shakes out: Smartphone owners will choose between $15 for 150MB with $0.10 / MB overage, or $29.99 for unlimited access.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Data Plan, data plans, dataplans, entry, ivan, result, still-getting, switchover, tiered data, verizon
T-Mobile to intro $10 data plan for smartphone data lightweights?
It's getting pretty clear that T-Mobile is rethinking its mobile data strategy, what with all the prepaid plans , data throttling and WiFi calling going on, and TmoNews says it isn't done shaking things up -- the carrier will reportedly introduce a 200MB data plan specifically for smartphone owners at $10 a month. Before you voice your hatred of tiered data pricing, know that Magenta will reportedly retain the existing $30 unlimited data plan, unlike its blue-and-white rival , and customers who pick the cheaper option will apparently be able to upgrade on the fly.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: data, Data Plan, engadget, fly, getting-pretty, hatred, option, rumor, rumors, says-it-isn, tieredpricing, uns
Verizon CEO confirms plans for tiered data pricing
We told you so . The Wall Street Journal has updated its recent article detailing disclosures from Verizon Wireless chief Ivan Seidenberg, and the latest news is as bad as it is predictable: VZW plans to consign unlimited data plans to the annals of history over the next four to six months, to be replaced by tiered, consumption-based pricing
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: confirms-plans, data, Data Plan, data-pricing, disclosures, history-over, ivan, journal, latest, mobile-internet, the-competition, tiered, verizon-wireless
Virgin Mobile USA fortells unlimited prepaid mobile broadband for $40 a month
Whereas AT&T's move to tiered smartphone data pricing signaled "the end of unlimited" to some, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA has just defied that notion with an all-you-can-eat broadband buffet priced at $40 per month.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, Data Plan, data plans, data-pricing, facebook, network-packets, plans, totally-sweet, unlimited, unlimited-data, virgin mobile usa, virgin-mobile
Unlimited data option disappears from iPads, AT&T tells grandfathered customers not to worry
Even though AT&T's $30 unlimited data plan technically went the way of the dodo back on June 7 , the company had assured 3G iPad owners that they'd be entitled to one last hurrah -- buy an iPad prior to the 7th and you'd be allowed to grandfather into the old plan , even if you didn't receive your purchase by the deadline. Problem is, the unlimited plan option finally disappeared off AT&T-connected iPads for the first time today, leaving some of these eligible folks who haven't yet signed up for 3G data in the lurch
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 3g ipad, att, Data Plan, dataplan, ipad, ipad 3g, Purchase, the-unlimited, these-eligible, unlimited-data, went-the-way, words
UK’s O2 to impose 3G data limits for iPhone 4 users
It seems like the entire United Kingdom (at least those who aren't out partying it up with Patsy Kensit at the Met Bar) has emailed us in the last two minutes to clue us in on the fact that O2 has posted its new iPhone 4 pricing. It looks like your beloved "unlimited 3G" plans of are a thing of the past -- instead, you'll be paying for up to 1GB of data of month. As you approach the limit, a text message will notify you and let you purchase an 500MB for
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, clue, Data Plan, dataplan, entry, iphone 4, iphone4, kensit, like-the-entire, limit, out-partying, patsy, patsy-kensit, will-notify
AT&T users can keep $30 unlimited data when upgrading phones… unless they want tethering
There's naturally been a ton of feedback in the past few hours on AT&T's new data pricing strategy , and the company has been responding to comments all morning over on its Facebook page; one of the key tidbits that's come out of the discussion so far is that folks on the current $30 smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan when upgrading hardware. Translation: yes, you'll be able to get a new iPhone without switching to the $25 / 2GB DataPro plan if you so choose. What you won't be able to do, though, is keep the $30 plan and add on the $20 tethering option -- tethering specifically requires DataPro, so your hopes and dreams of a soft 5GB cap are quashed (unless you want to pay $30 for 3GB of overage, of course)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, att, Data Plan, iphone, naturally-been, over-on-its, unlimited-data, upgrade
T-Mobile drops some overage charges in favor of bandwidth throttling
Well, it looks like T-Mobile has some good news and some bad news for customers using its 5GB webConnect data plan.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bandwidth cap, bandwidththrottling, charges, Data Plan, making-the-5gb, monthly-plan, overage, overage fee, overage-charges, overagecharges, the-standard, used-on-top