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Verizon may also be killing Unlimited Data
Brandon Davenport
As you may have heard, AT&T is dropping support for unlimited data plans - and Verizon isn’t planning to sit back and watch. A variety of Verizon smartphone customers generally use between 600 to 800 megabytes a month, according to the company’s CFO John Killian. What’s interesting is Verizon is predicting the use of smartphones to rise by almost 450%, and with that rise comes “explosions in data traffic” according to Killian.
Knowing that there is going to be an overwhelming flood of data hungry users, AT&T has moved from the flat-fee Unlimited plan, to two new plans — $15/mo (200MB) and $25/mo (2GB) — which has a lot of users upset, but whats worse is that Verizon, along with Sprint and other carriers, may be moving along the same path. Cellphone carriers have been known for being un-fair, but are they planning to just rip us off — or is this a bigger picture?
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