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Verizon Says Unlimited Plans Will End When Getting A New Subsidized Device
Earlier this week, some news organizations incorrectly reported Verizon’s plans for ending unlimited data plans. Verizon said that customers with unlimited plans will be able to keep them. However when shared data plans become available, the unlimited data option will no longer be available to customers when they buy a new device at a subsidized price. This means that people will not be grandfathered into their unlimited data plans if they want a new phone with a lower price. Below is a statement from Verizon as sent to The New York Times:
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Verizon Plans To End Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
Verizon Wireless CFO Fran Shammo said today that they are planning to end unlimited data plans when customers switch to a 4G phone. Shammo made the announcement at a JPMorgan conference. Verizon Wireless does not currently offer unlimited data plans for new customers. Some of the older customers have unlimited data plans that were grandfathered into their existing plans. Most of the older customers with unlimited data plans have 3G devices. When the older customers buy a 4G phone, Verizon will force them to sign up for a shared family data plan or tiered individual data plans.
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Verizon Signs Partnership With Color
Color founder Bill Nguyen has described his startup as being “in the wilderness,” but this happened in the past with Lala, another company he founded and eventually sold to Apple. Color has now partnered with Verizon to help spread the life-streaming service app. The app will be packaged on Verizon phones to have a higher frame rate. This is what Nyugen said in a blog post:
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Verizon Announces $80 1GB Data, Unlimited Talk/Text Prepaid Plan, and MiFi Hotspot
Verizon Wireless has announced an $80 prepaid plan that includes unlimited calling and texting and 1GB of data. You will need to buy a Samsung Illusion for $169.99 to use with this plan and it will run on 3G data speeds. Not bad considering that Verizon’s current prepaid smartphone deal is $94.99 for unlimited talk and text plus another $30 for unlimited data.
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AT&T’s 4G and T-Mobile’s 3G Has The Fastest Wireless Services In The U.S.
The four major carriers in the U.S. have been tested for how fast they run. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile all have some kind of 4G technology whether it is LTE, WiMAX, or HSPA+. Each of these carriers claim that they have the fastest or most reliable, but who is being truthful. PCWorld conducted a test called “2012 Mobile Speed Test” and found that AT&T’s 4G LTE service is the fastest download speeds while Verizon’s 4G LTE network had the fastest upload speeds. The T-Mobile HSPA+ 21 network was the fastest 3G service. Sprint’s 3G ad WiMAX technology was behind all of their competition. The real-world speed tests were conducted in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Washington DC.
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HTC Trophy 8107 Update Arrives On Verizon
If you own an HTC Trophy 8107 on Verizon Wireless, you will notice that an update has been made available today. The update fixes security issues and fixes a bug where the keyboard disappears. To get the HTC Trophy 8107 update on your phone, plug in the device and connect to the Zune Desktop. Then you will receive a notification. Update OS 7740, OS 8107, and HTC Firmware. The numbers and update names might be different from phone-to-phone. [UberGizmo]
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Verizon Wireless To Charge $30 Upgrade Fee
Verizon Wireless has confirmed today that they will soon start charging subscribers $30 as part of an upgrade fee when buying a new wireless device on contract. Verizon is currently the only major phone company that does not charge customers a fee when upgrading their devices on a two-year contract. AT&T and Sprint charge customers $36 to upgrade to a new device on contract. T-Mobile charges $18 for the upgrade. The upgrade fee will start on April 22nd.
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Why Throttling Unlimited Data Plans Is Pointless
Validas has released a new study that claims that data throttling on wireless data plans does nothing to alleviate data congestion on the wireless network. AT&T and others have claimed that throttling is done on the top users of bandwidth on its network to ensure bandwidth is available for everyone. However Validas extracted data from 55,000 cell phone bills that belonged to AT&T and Verizon Wireless customers in 2011. The result of the bills is that throttling isn’t doing anything.
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FCC Investigating Verizon For $2 Fee
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating the $2 fee that Verizon Wireless will be charging consumers for “convenience.” Verizon was planning on setting up this fee on January 15th to charge people who would be paying for their bill with a credit card through their phone. “On behalf of American consumers, we’re concerned about Verizon’s actions and are looking into the matter,” stated the FCC. [New York Times]
Verizon Fixes Yesterday’s LTE Outage
Verizon Wireless has fixed the LTE outage that they suffered from yesterday. The 4G LTE issue was resolved overnight and 3G operated normally. Calling and texting was unaffected. LTE-enabled phones fell back to 3G, which meant that people needed to manually disable LTE to get any data service at all. This is the third time that Verizon suffered from a data outage this month alone. [The Verge]
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