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Verizon Customizes Data Plans

Posted by Kallan Dahn Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Verizon Wireless has been dropping hints that they would be moving to a tiered data package for their smart phones and PDA's, and have finally release some juicy tid-bits.  Verizon believes that the new pricing will offer more flexibility to their customers to allow their phones to work for them without breaking their bank.  Pricing is as follows:
Smartphones - $15/ month for 150 MB of data with overage at $0.10/Mb or $29.99 for unlimited.
Tablet Plans - $20 1GB / $35 3GB / $50 5GB  Overage will be charged at $10/GB. (all fees are monthly)
Mifi/Five Spot/Notebook Plans - $50 5 GB / $80 10 GB Overage  $10/GB
*** The Mifi and Five Spot will have access to the tablet plans as well.
Standard USB modems will remain unchanged, and features phones will still have the $1.99/day pay-per-day option.
The $9.99 option for advanced multi-media devices is going to be eliminated at the same time these new plans are ushered in. 
The changes are expected to fall in place October 28th to coincide with the release of the iPad on Verizon.

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The Great 4th Generation Data Face Off

Posted by Kallan Dahn Wednesday, July 2, 2008 0 comments

There is alot of confusion reguarding data. Here is an article that I wrote about the new 4th generation data technologies titled. The Great 4th Generation Data face Off.

Wireless companies are really heating up a battle for subscribers, revenue, and unique offerings. The newest battle that is set to begin comes in the form of high speed wireless data. There are three weapons to win this battle; each is going to be wielded by companies of very different stature. Here is the tale of the tape.

LTE (long term evolution) is built on top of the 3G technology UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system). The stinging end of this weapon is the blazing 100mbps download, 50mbps upload, and very low latency.LTE is considered the expected migration of GSM operators. The expected release of this technology is in 2010 making it the last 4G technology to hit the market. Verizon has announced their intention to roll out LTE when it becomes available.

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