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Cancel Cell Phone Data plans??
#1
Verizon has some ideas about how to fight bandwidth hogs: charge them for it.

At an investor conference yesterday, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo said Verizon Wireless' upcoming tiered pricing plans would essentially force customers who consumed copious amounts of mobile data to pay for it, prompting customers to rein in their data use.

"The user who wants to use a lot will pay for it," Shammo said Tuesday at the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media and Technology Conference. "So from an unlimited perspective, you won't have somebody using a ton of network capacity but still only paying $30 a month... people who are going to be using a lot are going to be paying an awful lot as well."

Verizon Wireless has said it will scrap its unlimited plans this summer for plans that charge tiered rates for increased levels of data use. Shammo declined to provide an exact date for the company's introduction of tiered pricing, but confirmed that its unlimited plans would end this summer.

"I'm not going to go into exactly what we are going to launch in the summertime, but we actually will be going to tiered pricing. The unlimited pricing will be taken off the table," Shammo said.

Verizon introduced a $30 unlimited data plan for its feature phone and smartphone users in January to entice customers to pick its service for the iPhone over AT&T, which had stopped offering unlimited data last summer.

The wireless industry has been moving away from unlimited pricing in an effort to combat skyrocketing, network-clogging data use by their smartphone and USB modem customers.

AT&T was the first to move to tiered pricing and scrapped its unlimited plan in June 2010. T-Mobile markets its data plans as unlimited, but the company throttles back speeds after users hit a pre-set data cap. Sprint still offers unlimited data plans, a benefit of the capacity provided by Clearwire's WiMAX network, but has not completely ruled out a move to tiered pricing.
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#2
Ya Ill cancel my data. I'm not playing this game with these companies. I can go without data on my phone. In fact it might just be better to go back to the old flip phone and learn to keep a personal organizer like we did before the so called smart phone was invented. Smart phone?? Guess it means the companies are smart since they keep figuring out a way to sucker people out of more money.

My email can wait til I get to a computer and Ive never had text messaging with my Droid. If you cant call me I don't need to talk to you anyway!
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#3
How to catch wild pigs:

Step 1 - Begin by throwing out grain in a set area at set times.

Step 2 - Fence only one side of said area, continue throwing grain.

Step 3 - Fence second side of said area, continue throwing grain.

Step 4 - Fence thrid side of said area, continue throwing gain.

Step 5 - Fence fourth side with entrance opened, continue throwing grain.

Step 6 - Close gate, eat pigs.

I wonder what these companies are up to?
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#4
Based on past experience with my Verizon on similar issues, if you already have an unlimited data plan on your contract they will not take it away. You can't buy the family plan anymore that we have had for 5 or 6 years. The new ones cost more for less minutes, but Verizon has not canceled it yet. So if you want an unlimited data plan probably should buy it now to save bucks later on a tiered plan.
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#5
Verizon will be taking unlimited plans this year, even from current customers. As soon as your 2 year plan runs out.
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