{"id":12877,"date":"2011-05-20T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/05\/20\/verizon-wireless-to-end-unlimited-data\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:24:00","slug":"verizon-wireless-to-end-unlimited-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12877","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Wireless to End Unlimited Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/verizon_wireless_logo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"verizon_wireless_logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"verizon_wireless_logo\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/verizon_wireless_logo_thumb.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>Reuters is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/05\/19\/us-summit-verizon-idUSTRE74I4NH20110519\">reporting<\/a> that sometime this summer Verizon Wireless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/iphone\/news\/2010\/06\/att-kills-unlimited-iphone-data-announces-new-plans-tethering\/\">will join AT&amp;T<\/a> in killing off unlimited data plans for all smartphones, including Windows Phone, Android, the iPhone 4 and upcoming iPhone 4S \/ 5.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>If true, the transition could go one of two ways: <\/p>\n<p>Verizon could, like AT&amp;T, offer two options, one relatively inexpensive with a ridiculously low data cap, and one basically the same cost as the previous unlimited plan but with a new 2GB monthly limit.&#160; Or, they could do something truly competitive and offer say 200MB for $5 per month with several tiered options up to a maximum limit of, say 4GB, that still costs less than the current $30 unlimited plan.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll let you guess which they\u2019ll choose.&#160; In any case, it looks like with this move by Verizon and AT&amp;T\u2019s purchase of T-Mobile, unlimited smartphone data will soon be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting that sometime this summer Verizon Wireless will join AT&#38;T in killing off unlimited data plans for all smartphones, including Windows Phone, Android, the iPhone 4 and upcoming iPhone 4S \/ 5.&#160; If true, the transition could go one of two ways: Verizon could, like AT&#38;T, offer two options, one relatively inexpensive with [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}