Verizon confirms tiered pricing for LTE data

“won’t be as expensive as it sounds”

LOL… somebody get this guy a spot on Comedy Central

LTE will not be a replacement for Home internet services. Wireless bandwidth is too fragile to handle the amount of Data that wireline ISPs deal with.

Your living in a dream if you think an LTE will change that.

As long as I’m not paying $30 for less I’m fine with it. My wife loves her Eris but hardly uses 500 mb a month. I use a couple gigs (split time with wifi) and we pay $30 a month each. I also have a mifi (no other high speed options beside satellite where I live) which is another $60 a month. I’d be fine with $10-$15 a month for a gig or two.

Lolipop you think wireless internet in home is a dream? Comcast is using it already and its just wimax. Is it to futuristic to say that soon everything will be wireless? That’s where we have been going for the past 10 yrs I bet you thought WiFi was a crazy thought back in the day, replace the fiber backbone in cell towers with the fiber backbone ISP have and you can actually spread bandwidth… I’m sorry but I thought LTE meant LONG TERM Evolution. Pretty soon people are going to want their data from home EVERYWHERE they go, how do you purpose that will happen? Stop living in the 20th century

Anyone know of a list of current and upcoming areas where LTE will actually be available?

Look at their existing prepaid data: $50 for 1 GB over a month. Divide by 3 and that’s $16. That seems to be reasonable for say a netbook that I’d occasionally use.

Plain and simple. BOO! Cheaper network operating costs shouldn’t make for harder to understand plan options. Sorry. This is lame.

I like this a lot. What I am imagining is a plan that works for all my data consuming devices (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc) and having them all come from a single tiered bucket of minutes. Right now, I pay $40 for internet at home, $60 for an aircard or mifi, and $80 for my smartphone. What if I could instead pay $100 for all those devices and get a bucket of 10GB a month? That would work for me.

Of course there would probably be varying rates for wired connections vs wireless connections. I like this idea.

The nice thing about VoIP calls on LTE vs. cellular is the 700MHz LTE band will cover even further than the 850MHz cellular. That means better building penetration and more coverage from towers. With LTE, people are going to get used to seeing ’4G’ on their phone when there is no ’1X’ available

Well, ATT alluded to tiered pricing months ago. I am not entirely sure who everyone is kidding regarding these ‘surprise’ announcements. If you don’t believe that Ralph and Lowell talk alot then you really live in dream land.

Sprint is continuing to give away the farm just to stop the exodus. Notice though, Sprint is attaching a $10 fee for 4G access? Sprint is not as magnanimous as the sound. They are doing the same thing the other carriers do, only they are gradually greasing you up so get ready for Sprint to start with the same policies. Notice certain phones required ‘Simply Everything’ plans? Hmmm.

ATT and Verizon are almost identical in their pricing structures. For most basic voice and data services, they are identical. There are subtle differences with ATT coming in SLIGHTLY cheaper in a couple of areas but does that really matter if you get crap service?

TMobile is the odd man out and they definitely do march to the beat of their own drummer. It’s good to see them investing in their 3G network and expanding. But they are not quite there yet.

So, tiered plans are coming. Comcast does it with a 250 GB cap limit. Other providers do it. I think Verizon could create a sensible set of tiered data plans and make them work for customers. Hopefully they will take a leadership role and make insanely great offerings. We shall see. No information has been released so we have to take a wait and see approach.

I am usually not one to respond to these. I just get a kick out of reading all of ya’ll fussing about something. Keep in mind that I am just as guilty as the rest of you in using my smart phone anywhere and everywhere. My point is if we don’t like paying for things in tiers then we should all just stop using this feature and go back to the stone ages where we only did our web surfing at home. Not saying I will do this unless it just gets so out of hand that I can no longer afford to be apart of the tech world I love so much.

I’m glad this came out so everyone can shut the fuck up about Sprint charging $10 for uncapped data NOT 4G. Not only will other carriers charge for 4G, they will more than likely more CAPPED data. Although I’m sure Verizon enthusiasts will find someway to justify 4G pricing models.

The efficiency of LTE will have _NOTHING_TO_DO_ with Verizon’s pricing.

This is the company that had $1.99 data charges if you hit the wrong button on your dumbphone.

It will be based on what they can get away with, not their actual costs.

I don’t know what some of you are smoking but pulling up sprints site shows on data plans 4g is unlimited but 3g is still 5gig cap. Now it may be unlimited on phones but so is Verizon for smart phones.

Personally I’m not excepting it to be super cheap, but if I was 15-20 bucks for like 10GB (considering the speed increase, it would only make sense if the cap goes up), I wouldn’t mind. I don’t download large or massive quantities of items. I was to surf the web and check my emails at full at about the same speed as home, I want to check out a YouTube video without a 50 second buffering.

Texting + Data has gotten outta hand in terms of pricing to be honest. Google Voice is nice but realistically thats like having 2 numbers, and unfortunately there aren’t too many people who are tech savy and know how to send a text to your GV number. 30 bucks for data, and another 10-20 bucks if you want to text on top of your voice plan. I like Sprint’s plan, but shitty CS experience pulls me away from Sprint. 60 bucks, for what? 1000mins, data, and text? I wouldn’t mind paying 50-60 bucks for that, and they don’t need to include the unlimited to any mobile carrier and that would sound like a deal to me.

50+30+15+ almost 12% in taxes and fees is close to 100 bucks a month. Not to mention if you have a family plan thats another 9 bucks or 15 bucks.

Well I have 5 lines with ATT, and a family member that has 4 lines with verizon… 2 of the lines on my account are iPhones, 1 is a smart phone and the other two are just regular flip phones…. I have unlimited data on all 5 lines, unlimited texting, 2100 daytime mins, unlimited nights and weekends, unlimited mobile to mobile and A-List calling, and then there’s the ringback tones, insurance on phones and all that good stuff. And my bill is still cheaper every month than my family member, who by the way has no smart phones on there plan. Now, according to the plans we have we should be within about 15 dollars of each other every month… But food ole verizon always finds ways to screw them over…. I may not have ALL the coverage verizon does… But at least my bank account isn’t always sucked dry just so I can say I have a signal in the few places ATT doesn’t. If you don’t like capped data plans, don’t use data, if you don’t like paying 100 bucks a month for a phone buy a prepaid and shut the hell up! People always want something for nothing and then wonder why America is goin down the toilet.