[Updated] Verizon To Officially Reveal Tiered Data Plans July 7th; Plans Leaked Below

[kptphalkon]

Yes a great point is that netflix matches the video quality with your internet speed. But considering the app checks your phone model, and not all phones can handle the same resolution, is it out of the question to assume Netflix will only provide the highest quality that your phone can handle before it stutters/lags?

Speculation....but still. Netflix seems like a pretty smart company and they took great time and pains before releasing the app. I think they'd only provide at most the resolution your phone natively supports.

 

[eagle1967]

yes

yeah i agree thats why they keep releasing the app with updated phone support. but i can see the difference in the pic depending on my connection so there is definatley not top res due to 3g speed (droid 1)
it will be a higher res on 4g and use more data.

 

[Cmking76]

well all these people who are claiming theses low data are sitting at home on wifi.why have a smartphone in the first place walk over to and fire up the computer.I'm a truck driver and use this to stay connected with the world and use at least 5gb a month without whatever. this teathering thing is.that was their selling point to me use this phone to make your life on the road easier. that's fine though when the time comes i will just switch to boost mobile android for 50$ unlimited everything. with out a doubt virizon is. the best out there but i will not be just handing my hard earned money over so some executive can buy a faster jet you all are free to do what you want

 

[czerdrill]

well all these people who are claiming theses low data are sitting at home on wifi.why have a smartphone in the first place walk over to and fire up the computer.I'm a truck driver and use this to stay connected with the world and use at least 5gb a month without whatever. this teathering thing is.that was their selling point to me use this phone to make your life on the road easier. that's fine though when the time comes i will just switch to boost mobile android for 50$ unlimited everything. with out a doubt virizon is. the best out there but i will not be just handing my hard earned money over so some executive can buy a faster jet you all are free to do what you want

Or they could be sitting in their office on wifi or any of the hundreds or thousands of places that have wifi in the united states. The "why have a smartphone?" ppl don't make sense. Is it a prerequisite of owning a smartphone that you must use your carriers network to get your data?

The truth is there are far more ppl that don't rack up even 750mb a month then ppl who "use their smartphone" to rack up even two gigs a month. Should all those people just not have smartphones?

 

[bplewis24]

To anyone who is royally peeved about this leaked announcement, don't voice your anger at Verizon.

Voice your anger towards the thousands of rooters who illegally tethered hundreds of thousands of GBs a month by running their home network through the Verizon data plan. Verizon didn't have to do this, but the incessant selfishness of the idiotic few completely forced their hands, and now we ALL have to pay for it.

So to you, the idiot abuser who streamed 200GB per month in data while using their phone as a router, PS3/XBox server, while downloading and uploading countless amounts of Torrents, I want to personally thank you for gouging our pockets in the future. You are awesome! Hope the Torrents of SpongeBob and the blazing speeds while playing Halo or Modern Warfare were totally worth it.

My sentiments exactly.

I've given thanks repeatedly to the selfish donkeys.

tethering had nothing to do with this. if it did they would stop tethering. if tethering caused their network to crash they wouldnt allow it. making another 20 bucks isnt going to change the bandwidth usage. this has nothing to do with tetherers its about money.
why offer these insane mobile sppeds if you are gonna make it so people cant use them. websites load fine on 3g. netflix works fine on 3g.
but with netflix it adjust res to speed. so 30 minutes of a show on 3g uses less data than on 4g because the resolutiuon wil be higher on the 4g network.
so next they will outlaw all streaming video. than youll say you can thank those that watched 5 movies a week instead of one those greedy bastards.

well i have to go im looking at this corvette its cool it goes 150 miles an hour. but dammit on june 20th they limited it to be able to only go 50 miles aday. last week i could of got the unlimited milage model. im always late.

Don't waste your time arguing with guys like UNC and Beardface. Let them believe what they want to.

Brandon

 

[kodiak799]

well all these people who are claiming theses low data are sitting at home on wifi.why have a smartphone in the first place

Because my home ISP isn't mobile. Home broadband plans are $50 or more (some slower are cheaper, but $50 comparable to LTE) and you think $30 is priced to do that?

Perhaps a better question is why do people have smartphones if they can't afford them?

 

[loki993]

I checked, I used 1.4 gigs last month and I dont stream music. Thats just surfing the web, email and downloads. Not heavy use at all. I dont have wifi at home, some people still dont have the best internet available to them.

Thats on 3g too. Im sure me like other people will do more on their phones once they get 4g. I know everyone says the downloads are faster, but there are things I dont do because the connection is slow. I would do more of those things with 4g.

Thing is why should I have to make sure my phones on wifi? Sure its fine if your somewhere youve been before and you have the connection set up. Also I keep my wifi turned off most of the time to save battery. So now I gotta keep my wifi on all the time. Then worry about going over my cap so every time Im somewhere new I gotta open up the settings find a network and connect to it?

Then on top of all that after 4g comes down I very well could be connecting to a much slower network than the one I would get over 4g. That seems counterproductive doesnt it?

 

[kodiak799]

Then on top of all that after 4g comes down I very well could be connecting to a much slower network than the one I would get over 4g. That seems counterproductive doesnt it?

True. And I think that's why VZW is going to tiers because it's easier than policing tethering. The point you just made is precisely the concern - a lot of people don't tether because the speeds in most places aren't tolerable. But with LTE, you have a viable replacement to home broadband and many more people would start tethering a lot more (back in the day, that was my hope to drop the ISP with LTE and save $50 a month).

 

[jseah]

3 weeks into my billing, I've used 0.033 GB of data. Why do I care if they limit me to 2 gb, I don't even use 1?

And how much of your data usage is WiFi versus the cellular network? I pretty much check weather, email, download the occasional free app of the day from the Amazon Appstore, and check the news and I average between 750 MB to 1 GB per month. Although I don't "take advantage" of unlimited data, I like not having to worry about making sure I am using WiFi.

I don't see how that is possible. I stream music from the internet over 3G for probably 12 hours per week, and rarely reach 1GB. If I only did email and web browsing, it would be more like 200MB.

Brandon

Are you using WiFi at all? I don't. I am syncing three email addresses, and one of those three gets a lot of full html emails. I also use the NY Daily News widget, have background data enabled, and have backup assistant enabled (don't know if I really need this one).

My daughter uses her Incredible to Facebook (a lot), Twitter, text and email, and sometimes Youtube, and she goes through 1.5 GB a month (that was her usage on our last bill).

 

[Cmking76]

trust I'm a truck driver i can afford it. i just want what i bought. if you bought a Corvette and a year later they came back and took it and gave you a neon but charged you more you wouldn't. be happy.phone internet is not closeto even dial up so stop withthe comparesion.your here just to stir things up so for head and be proud your paying more for less.call me i got some stuff I'd love to sell YOU

 

[moset]

It seems to me that more effective use of cache would help more than anything.
Why do I need to download the same data over and over? Maps for example, do roads change from day to day? I have significant space on my SD card. I know for example that google maps caches map data so if I drive into a no signal area the map data has been saved so I don't have to download it again, but it's not real efficient.
I sometimes visit the same web site more than once in a short time frame. Most of what is on that page if not all is not changed, and a good deal of it is from advertisers.
Why not just store it and only update what changes.
And this cloud thing, why should I download a song every time I want to listen, save it on my device until my local storage is full then dump if I need to store more.
I have wifi but it also comes from
VZW. I wonder how much of this problem has to do with iphone?
last month I updated my where's ios. It failed to complete several times after sucking down about 500mgb each try. VZW did help me out by bumping me to 10Gig free for that month. 500 meg for a firmware update? Apple is a data hog.
Who should pay for failed downloads?
Just random thoughts.
Sent from my Droid using DroidForums

 

[jseah]

I checked, I used 1.4 gigs last month and I dont stream music. Thats just surfing the web, email and downloads. Not heavy use at all. I dont have wifi at home, some people still dont have the best internet available to them.

Thats on 3g too. Im sure me like other people will do more on their phones once they get 4g. I know everyone says the downloads are faster, but there are things I dont do because the connection is slow. I would do more of those things with 4g.

Thing is why should I have to make sure my phones on wifi? Sure its fine if your somewhere youve been before and you have the connection set up. Also I keep my wifi turned off most of the time to save battery. So now I gotta keep my wifi on all the time. Then worry about going over my cap so every time Im somewhere new I gotta open up the settings find a network and connect to it?

Then on top of all that after 4g comes down I very well could be connecting to a much slower network than the one I would get over 4g. That seems counterproductive doesnt it?

That is my thoughts exactly.

 

[huskur]

I checked, I used 1.4 gigs last month and I dont stream music. Thats just surfing the web, email and downloads. Not heavy use at all. I dont have wifi at home, some people still dont have the best internet available to them.

Thats on 3g too. Im sure me like other people will do more on their phones once they get 4g. I know everyone says the downloads are faster, but there are things I dont do because the connection is slow. I would do more of those things with 4g.

Thing is why should I have to make sure my phones on wifi? Sure its fine if your somewhere youve been before and you have the connection set up. Also I keep my wifi turned off most of the time to save battery. So now I gotta keep my wifi on all the time. Then worry about going over my cap so every time Im somewhere new I gotta open up the settings find a network and connect to it?

Then on top of all that after 4g comes down I very well could be connecting to a much slower network than the one I would get over 4g. That seems counterproductive doesnt it?

That is my thoughts exactly.

You mean there are 3 of us with the exact same thought process

 

[Cmking76]

so at 30 for 2gb you actually paying way more than your computer to which your phone cannot come colder to.no Verizon is coming to a town near you're and I prison movie.......,
.. and guess what they're fresh out of lube.so lets stand and shoulder to shoulder with the people who are happy and break out the champagne

 

[loki993]

Then on top of all that after 4g comes down I very well could be connecting to a much slower network than the one I would get over 4g. That seems counterproductive doesnt it?

True. And I think that's why VZW is going to tiers because it's easier than policing tethering. The point you just made is precisely the concern - a lot of people don't tether because the speeds in most places aren't tolerable. But with LTE, you have a viable replacement to home broadband and many more people would start tethering a lot more (back in the day, that was my hope to drop the ISP with LTE and save $50 a month).

Well I guess I just feel they should find a better way to identify the people tethering and charge them accordingly instead of punishing us all for it. Even though thats how the world works generally, we all pay the price for the few that want to abuse the system. I guess we really shouldnt be suprised about it.