{"id":12891,"date":"2011-06-21T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/06\/21\/verizon-tiered-data\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:34:00","slug":"verizon-unlimited-data-getting-the-axe-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12891","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Unlimited Data Getting the Axe in July?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 8px 10px 5px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Verizon Shifts to Tiered Data Plans for Smartphones?\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Verizon Shifts to Tiered Data Plans for Smartphones?\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/image3.png\" width=\"281\" height=\"172\" \/>So, it seems Verizon Wireless will join AT&amp;T next month in killing off unlimited data plans for smartphones.&#160; According to&#160; tech sites <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20110620\/if-you-want-that-verizon-unlimited-data-plan-you-really-need-to-hurry\/\">AllThingsD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2011\/06\/20\/exclusive-tiered-data-plans-headed-to-verizon-july-7-packages-start-at-30-for-2gb\/\">Droid Life<\/a>, starting in early July (possibly as soon as July 7) Verizon will shift to tiered data plans for devices starting at $30 for 2GB of wireless data.<\/p>\n<p>2GB of 3G\/4G smartphone data is more than enough for most Android, iPhone and Windows Phone users, but this shift is yet another nail in the coffin of all-you-can-eat wireless carrier data.&#160; If true, this move would leave T-Mobile and Sprint as the only two service providers in the U.S. offering unlimited smartphone data; and if T-Mobile is absorbed by AT&amp;T it\u2019s not difficult to imagine Sprint being the last man standing \u2013 and they may go wobbly fast.<\/p>\n<p>Existing Verizon customers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2011\/06\/21\/current-verizon-customers-wont-be-affected-by-tiered-data-only-new-customers-and-lines\/\">appear to be safe<\/a>; as long as they continue service without changing plans, it looks like they can keep their $30\/month unlimited smartphone data plan.&#160; So if you want to move to Verizon &#8211; or upgrade to a smartphone as an existing Verizon customer &#8211; and want to lock-in unlimited data, you\u2019d better move fast.<\/p>\n<h6 align=\"right\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\">MobileCrunch<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it seems Verizon Wireless will join AT&#38;T next month in killing off unlimited data plans for smartphones.&#160; According to&#160; tech sites AllThingsD and Droid Life, starting in early July (possibly as soon as July 7) Verizon will shift to tiered data plans for devices starting at $30 for 2GB of wireless data. 2GB of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12891\">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-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","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=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}