Bring back unlimited data.
Seems kind of ironic to sell these super smartphones only for them to cap @ 4g?!!! LOL
4g's covers about a week of pandora @ work.
This is a joke.
Thank you.
Do you have wifi where you work?
There's no "cap".
You can purchase more data allowance.
Doubtful that "unlimited" is ever coming back for the very reason stated in the OP.
It'll come back. The problem is... The amount of growth wasn't planned for. In less than 2 years data usage grew 4 fold. Now the backbone needs to get faster and updated. So they have to plan for this data increase and then some more. LTEA will help with aggregate demand, and better prioritizing. Probably won't see it until 2017-18 at the earliest. The smaller carriers are not as saturated and I am willing to bet if the roles were flipped the smaller carriers would drop unlimited themselves. To update the network takes more than overnight.
Also carriers don't own the backbones. They pay out in tiers from landline providers(where they don't have their landlines of their own). They pay out overages. This is why Sprint themselves says it isn't sustainable yet offer unlimited. If they gained 50M customers they'd change their plans.
Tidbits wrote:It'll come back.
Tidbits wrote:
It'll come back.
I agree, somewhat. I believe it will either come back at an increased price from $30/month OR the cost/GB on the metered data plans will drop significantly. Hopefully if/when it comes back Verizon will not discontinue shared data plans.
The problem is that you have 2 types of users. Those on single plan who don't want to have a shared data plan with other users AND those who have multiple lines who find it ridiculous to pay for an individual data plan on each of their multiple lines. Verizon needs to allow you to choose which type of plan you would prefer!
If they are going to charge $40 per smartphone I expect the data if unlimited to be at least $50. We just have to wait and see.
Sure once AWS is rolled out everywhere and LTE-A is rolled out. And Verizon acquires and rolls out any 600 MHz spectrum they win in those auction( auctions scheduled for 2015 ) adds mini towers( currently less than 10% of areas have these ) and converts both 3G and 1X spectrum to LTE( currently planed for 2021 ). So sure unlimited data might come back but not for at least 7 years.
ttipgem wrote:There's no "cap".You can purchase more data allowance.Doubtful that "unlimited" is ever coming back for the very reason stated in the OP.
ttipgem wrote:
If it came back people like the OP would use it that way and the network would slow down to a crawl if one could even access it then people like the OP will be back mad asking "Why is my connection so slow". Apparently mobile internet is magical and works on pixie dust and unicorn blood. With unlimited data why bother to see if apps are constantly updating unnecessarily or constantly running in the background? You know things that will affect the network. Hey let's let my Pandora run all night even why I'm sleeping, I have unlimited data. Who cares if I'm wasting bandwidth.
I wish I did, it's for management only. :smileysad:
Still I think it's ironic to sell these smartphones (I have the NOTE 2) bloated with apps that you cannot remove. Yeah I understand that there will be people out there using their phones for internet but by all means, no phone is going to replace a desktop computer with broadband --> prospective fiber optic (Can't wait! ). They had an extra fee to use your phone as a wifi hub and even charged for that by the gb I'm okay with that and people knew what they were signing up for when they got it. So why are we being billed for basic data plans for phones all of a sudden? I'm paying $120 a month for 4gb when my girlfriend is paying 70 for unlimited with T-Mobile and does not have any problems.. In the end it's only money that matters to Verizon. It's all a huge gimmick... blame the land lines they were working fine the past decade and Verizon boasts about their "coverage area" in their commercials that can't even sustain it's own products. :S /endrant
Oh and sorry for the double post just got this on the way home. :S
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Like I said earlier. T-Mobile is in a less saturated network. If they gained 30-40M more users they'll change their tune quickly. Sprint already went on record about this as well. Right now they have the ability to, but once that saturation happens it'll change.
Yeah when landline providers had the capability at the time and Verizon could offer it. Landlines didn't think usage would sky rocket 400% in the past 10 years. LTEA can handle all of it if the back end does. Now it's up to landline providers to move tech forward. If they don't unlimited on mobile devices will be a thing of the past.
