Comments on: Verizon Introducing Tiered Data Plans in 4-6 Months?

By: Bassmeiser

Bassmeiser — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:13:00 +0000

As I verizon employee, I dread this change.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:02:00 +0000

but whats the purpose of downloading that much or being on your phone or computer at all…at some point you have to come up for air or at least have a life and go to work or school etc….theres no reason for him or anyone else to be pulling more than 5 gb a month on a phone yes on a computer but not a phone. and i was in verizon about 4 months ago and ive mentioned this in another post on the tethering topic where a marine and his wife got billed 6300 for tethering bc of some package deal not allowing them to go over 5 gbs. and it was 25$ for every 1mb they when over that. and it was all from tethering.

and what do you do after the 2 year plan goes bye bye…and u have to renew and they force you into the tierd plans? what then? you jumpship like the guest said he was gonna do to sprint or tmobile?

all im saying is because of people breaking hidden rules and yes every thing has hidden rules that arent out right said, we get punished for it with these tierd plans

By: Frank Ortiz

Frank Ortiz — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:54:33 +0000

Well, like pros would say "that f*ing sucks!!." I use my data all day long!!
Listening to online radio throughout the day, browsing, and occasionally tethering my iPad. I can see how it makes standense from a business standpoint, but the consumer will suffer on this one.
I wonder if they will seperate the data "usage" between applications. Example; Online radio like Pandora will be unlimited, but browsing won't be unlimited. However, what will happen with apps like Facebook/Twitter, and other updating apps? We will have to set them as manual updating, which sucks, because it will make our "Smart Phones" stupid. What about email and automatically checking for new email?

Let's see... but I don't like it...

By: Armonpazouki

Armonpazouki — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:51:00 +0000

he didnt lie, he did say he was tethering. If you download that stuff on your phone, u’d be looking at a lot. And If you have a 2 year contract, they are not going to change anything, if they do, say bye bye verizon

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:16:00 +0000

or im a safe and smart pirate. Cliwat ur an idiot. and what you dl in blue ray i just get in normal old dvdrip. yea i cud download a whopping 400 gb a month but even uploading at 1kbps downloading that much wud put me in a red zone for uploadin… so ur not to intelligent and ur the reason why we are getting tierd plans u douche bag. now that u think about it im glad we are getting tiered plans so it can own DB’s like u who take and unneccessary advantage of something thats a gift. u twat

By: Apopj

Apopj — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:41:54 +0000

Hopefully, they will do as ATT did when I had my iPHONE. They changed the tiered structure but let those of us with unlimited data keep it. If not, I will simply send them my phone and they can take me to court for altering the contract without my approval

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:19:24 +0000

I'm with you on this one! Oh wait…actually give me until around 2012 because I'm locked into a contract at the moment.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:07:14 +0000

Well I'm really not looking forward to when might come about. I switched to the droid 1 in February because if I wanted to upgrade to any decent phone, I'd either have to pay $10 for 25mb on a "feature" phone- and that was not happening- or dish out the $30 to get the unlimited plan for droid, which "does everything". I have to admit that after having the droid, I'd never want anything to do with the other non-android phones Verizon offers now. But it's no question that when I can use my laptop's DSL at home, there's no point in trying to browse the internet on my droid.

The thing is, I used around 6gigs of data during some of the summer months, while I've been using less data recently. But to me, tiered data plans mean that I can forget about watching any videos I want to and I shouldn't even try to turn on the GPS for navigation. I'd also probably have to turn off any automatic syncing apps besides my gmail and google accounts. I'd pretty much have to say goodbye to "ruling the air". Another family member, on the other has a feature phone that she can use 25mb of data per month, and she doesn't go over it, but she may check her facebook on the phone three times in the whole month. In other words, she wouldn't even be paying the $10 extra for any data if it weren't required.

The only thing that I see fair to the customers would be to allow those of us who want our unlimited data to keep it. Those who'd like a tiered plan could have the option to pay less for less data- and let me just say that nobody should have to pay any amount monthly to be using even 50 or 100 megabytes. Plus, I personally can't see paying over $30 per month for any smartphone data plan.

Others have had the same idea on here, but it couldn't matter less to Verizon that this might be more "fair" to their customers. I'd like to see them prove me wrong, but I'm not counting on it.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:37:02 +0000

Oh like $30 wasn't enough? Money hungry vultures! I say let's go on strike!!!

By: imag

imag — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:30:43 +0000

I can't believe you don't call them out on their lies: http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/25/verizon-cfo-denies-tiered-3g-data-plans-are-imminent/

Corporations just lie outright nowadays, and when no one even calls them on it, they do it even more. It's despicable. It's sociopathic behavior - and you reinforce it when you don't care.

The only way we will have any ethics in this world is if the ethical *humans* enforce ethical behavior. Corporations won't do it. If you just give up, you are essentially telling companies that they are free to lie to you wherever and whenever they please.

By: OldManHart

OldManHart — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:14:13 +0000

Tier'd data plans make sense if done correctly. My wife can't afford/justify the full $30 data plan and this has kept the big V from getting more of her hard-earned money. If there was a lower priced option out there for her, then she would purchase a more expensive phone and sign up for a more expensive plan (although less than what I am currently paying). This would be a win/win – and I would feel better knowing that if she got lost she would have the nav on her shiny new droid to get her home again.

On the other side… one of the options MUST remain to have an unlimited plan. It is bad enough that the carriers nickle and dime us to death on the SMS fees – something that SHOULD have been included in the “unlimited” data option. But it is their cash cow – just like purchasing a soda at the movies.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:57:00 +0000

Don’t really care how much you use now, it’s unlimited. Let’s see how much you will use when it’s tiered .. I’m betting nowhere near that amount

By: Tj

Tj — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:53:00 +0000

any pirate laughs at only 8 gig per month i was laughing that avatar is 11 gigs just movie alone

By: Tj

Tj — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:49:00 +0000

juat gotta say 20 gigs last month alone

By: Woofhound

Woofhound — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:02:00 +0000

Data plans are there to be used. As time goes by, we will likely ALL be using our smartphones more and more. I already use my desktop PC a LOT less, now that I have my DX.