http://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-ditch-phone-plans-shared-120639203.html
Wow, those price tags are reidculous. $50 per 1 gB of data? really?
Wow, those price tags are reidculous. $50 per 1 gB of data? really?
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The data allowances start at $50 per month for 1 gigabyte. That's enough for prudent two-smartphone users who use Wi-Fi a lot, but Verizon recommends getting 2 gigabytes for $60. After that, each additional 2 gigabytes cost an extra $10 per month.
60 base + 10-30 for each device you add, so it likely won't save you money.
$50 for 1gb? i wouldnt even have a data plan then. would just rely on wifi.
The Share Everything Plan includes unlimited voice minutes, unlimited text, video, and picture messaging, and a single data allowance starting at 1GB for $50 a month
I kept hearing bad things about this today but after looking into it, it doesnt seem to bad after all.
So right now its $39.99 for 450 minutes, $10 for 1000 txt or $20 for unlimited, then another $30 for 2GB
If anything for basic users that don't abuse their data, 1-2GB should be enough, so for $60? maybe $70? they will get unlimited talk, txt, picture txt, video message, and 2GB data.
Sounds like a win to me unless I'm missing something.
The good news: $40 will now buy you an unlimited amount of voice calls and text messages. That is $10 less than you were paying for your voice and text plans combined before, so even if you don’t plan on increasing your voice calling or texting you come out ahead.
The bad news: you might need those voice minutes and text messages because data just got a lot more expensive. The cheapest data option will let you pay $50 for 1 GB of data (according to Verizon's calculations, that's about 30 minutes of streaming video for the month). To replicate the amount of data you can buy today you need to pay $60 for 2 GB (which will give you an hour of streaming video, but then you can't use your phone for anything else until the next month).
Where does that leave you? The cheapest option Verizon now offers smartphone customers is $90 for half as much data as $80 buys you today. And in less than 12 months $30 has gone from buying you unlimited data to not even covering 1 GB.