Comments on: Verizon’s Family Data Usage Calculator Spotted, Plans Almost Upon Us?

By: masiv

masiv — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:47:00 +0000

That calculator is ridiculous: I hit at least 50-100 web pages a day and come nowhere near 4.39GB of data a month…. Is the government making these estimates for VZW like they do for job creation?

By: snapp76

snapp76 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:52:00 +0000

In playing with the calculator directly. It def looks like 5GB is the minimum buy in…

http://www.verizonwireless.com/freedom/datacalculator.html

By: Jws224

Jws224 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:32:00 +0000

This is actually different, notice your link just says “Data Usage Calculator;” This new screen says “Family Data Usage Calculator.”

Here’s the proper link…

http://www.verizonwireless.com/freedom/datacalculator.html

By: feztheforeigner

feztheforeigner — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:09:00 +0000

Sharing infinite data across a couple of people is still infinite data. Verizon will not let you share an unlimited plan…

By: DougZ

DougZ — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Mystery solved. This isn’t part of a family data plan chart. It’s a “How much data do I use” calculator that went out with Verizon’s marketing emails today. here’s the link to the tool:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/datacalculatorPopup.jsp?email=Responsys&CMP=EMC-C-C-S-NL

By: KnightCrusader

KnightCrusader — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:00:00 +0000

Yeah. We get to keep it as long as we never get rid of unlimited. The promo code is good until 2038 or something like that.

You are correct El Big Chris, it’s pretty awesome. I only got an 8% discount from work, but altogether I have a 1400 minute with unlimited M2M, 10 F&F, unlimited text and data for a total of $225 a month after fees and taxes (that’s $45 per line, better than most prepaid unlimited plans)

By: Tyler Cameron

Tyler Cameron — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:16:00 +0000

What’s with everyone saying “I always have wifi around” Am I in the minority here?..
I never turn off WiFi unless I’m at home and absolutely need the speed, otherwise 4G is what I always keep it on. Iunno about you, but I don’t wanna screw with scanning for WiFi networks all day long, I sure as hell don’t wanna be on a public wifi network! And most important of all, Verizon LTE is almost always going to be faster than most WiFi networks you’ll run into. Sure, I take a battery life hit, but my Nexus never dips below 10 hours of battery use. That’s the whole day!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:51:00 +0000

i’d think they’d let us keep em and share em or make us pay 10 bucks more to share which would make sense

By: WCDave

WCDave — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen at all indirect stores. If only it did!

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Howard — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:52:00 +0000

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By: TheDude

TheDude — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:51:00 +0000

I did some research and this appears to have been some “select account” promotional garbage done via vzwshop.com (the Verizon site that reps don’t even know about). If you are lucky enough to get chosen by the Verizon gods you receive emails with details about special promotions only available to you. “Common-folk” reps are oblivious to this power and you must seek the hidden sect of VZWShop reps (if you are blessed with the aura of course).

Looks like you guys lucked out.

By: GCurry

GCurry — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:31:00 +0000

The real question is how they will “grandfather” in a family of “unlimited data” devices. Dollars to donuts there will be no “unlimited” family data plan.

By: moelsen8

moelsen8 — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:02:00 +0000

fair enough.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:01:00 +0000

I’m the only one on my family plan with data, so I’ll be staying with the unlimited. I can see how some people would like this, though.

By: hkklife

hkklife — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Yep, it’s all about your availability of wi-fi. I don’t have wi-fi at work and I am frequently out in the field for work, so I have to use my phone for everything and/or use the hotspot feature. Heck, when I visit my parents I’ll use my phone’s hotspot if I need to pull down some big files since it’s faster than their slow DSL connection.