Verizon kills off unlimited data plans (1 Viewer)

[mattCR]

http://gizmodo.com/5910903/verizon-planning-to-kill-grandfathered-unlimited-data-plans-when-you-upgrade-to-lte-this-is-bullshit

Unlimited data on Verizon is dead. The death rattle just wheezed out during Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo's dream-killing presentation at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. Everyone with a grandfathered unlimited data plan will be forced to switch to a tiered plan when they upgrade to LTE. It's absurd, warrantless, and sadly, typically, aggressively anti-consumer.

Killing unlimited—especially grandfathered plans—was always going to piss off, well, everyone, but Verizon thinks it has a good reason. "Everyone will be on data share," Shammo said. All customers will be forced onto Verizon's new shared data plans once their upgrade cycle comes around, which are in theory easier to manage for multi-device families. Except that doesn't really pass the smell test.

Transcript of the briefing is here:

http://www22.verizon.com/idc/groups/public/documents/adacct/jpm_vz_transcript.pdf

 

[Sam Posten]

What about those who have unlimited 4g now?

 

[mattCR]

They are going to end them, you'll be forced to move to a limited 5G plan.. they will no longer offer the product.