nikecar, I see both your point and darrick04's...but these prices seem like Verizon wants to drive sales towards larger data packages, and punish those who choose smaller ones. From a sales/revenue point of view, that's logical, but they're moving people off unlimited because they themselves don't have "unlimited" data. So from an infrastructure point of view, they should discourage the bigger data packages, right? I dunno, I don't think I'll ever understand: why not just do a straight, per-gigabyte price structure, say $10 or $15? After all, they're going to charge $15 per gb for overages, right? Why not just take actual usage each month and multiply by $15? Simple, fair, and they make their money.
Let's say you take the price per gigabyte for each level (50, 30, 17.5, 13.33, 11.25, and 10)...the average of those is around $22. Why not just charge a flat $20 per gigabyte? Of course, I'm sure they considered that, and have a good business reason for not charging a flat rate. Who knows?