Rumor: Verizon Wireless to unveil new tiered data plans July 7th?

If they do like AT&T did all existing customers on the unlimited plan where grandfathered in and had the option of keeping their unlimited plan , even when upgrading. If you ever changed the plan the unlimited was gone forever.

I'm sure VRZ will do the same with their existing customers currently on unlimited.

Me: "YOU WANT HOW MUCH ???.....Verizon...... You just made me rethink my move to you......

Verizon: "Sorry Sir, We are raising our prices to better serve you!, Our Customer"

Me: "You mean Take more of my HARD EARNED MONEY..... remember you can't get blood from a turnip"

............Slams Door...............

Sprint : "Oh Welcome Back.....I see You found out we were treating you right!"

Me: "Sprint.... Lets go to Family Therapy..... I think we haven't been communicating with each other like we should "

Sorry if this sounds like a newbie question but, how does the carrier know you're tethering to another device if you downloaded the S/W from another source ?

Also, does anyone have experience in the relative data consumption rates between OS6, IOS and Android ?

I'm curious to know if RIM is truly more efficient than the competition and by extension more cost effective when it comes to tiered data plans.

5 lines, all smartphones, all unlimited data, unlimited texting, and 1500 min with any mobile, any time and 7pm nights, and my phone bill is $201 with tax. Sprint is all I can afford! I mean Verizon would cost me $150 just for the smallest data plans for my 5 lines and that's before family texting oh AND minutes!! Haha. I bet my phone bill would be $300 at Verizon and I'd still not have unlimted data. We had ATT before and their are things I liked better about them than Sprint but not $100 a month better! I never drop calls or anything. I guess to each his own, but how can big families with lots of data hungry teens afford Verizon?

Let's see how this will work out at the end for real !

My largest month in the past six months has been 356,000KB. I used a conversion calculator online and that's only 0.33 GB. I'd have to go 2 million KB to even get close to going over 2GB. So given the plan is 2GB for $30, and I'm currently paying $30 for unlimited web and e-mail, I'm not going to see any changes once I renew my contract.

Some people may hate this because they use their phones differently, and I understand, but for me, this change will not affect me greatly.

T-Mo - free tethering, unlimited. I never ever get to the 'limit' - heavy user for work.

Verizon pricing is KRAZY........???? the highest in the land. Thats why I've stayed with SPRINT all these years and I have great service in my area and out of my area.

One reason I like VZW is the unlimited data plan. If they do this, than I might get an AT&T line and test it out and see which one comes out on top for me. I've been with VZW for a while but they might lose customers doing this.

Another day, another wireless company sticking it to the consumer. Why no 1 GB for $15? Why no .5 gb for $7.50? Come on Verizon if you want tiers you can't just start at $30. The pyramids in egypt aren't floating in midair you need to have a base.

Geez VZW is pricey.. I was gonna port my number over from sprint when my contract was up.. But damn I might est well stay with sprint... That's to much for 2gb $30 bucks damn!!

I envy you people !

i pay 40$ for 100mb a MONTH, thats 3.xx MB per DAY ! live with it .. and appreciate what you got.

I'd be pissed off if I was paying $30 a month for 2GB and only using 50MB (my maximum monthly usage on my BB). Rogers' $15/150MB plan is perfect for BB users who don't tether or stream.

So I'm an existing customer due for an upgrade / waiting for the new BlackBerry phones to be released but looks like I won't be able to in time before this "tier" stuff / but Question will I be able to keep my unlimited data when I go to upgrade or will they force me to pay for a tiered data plan?..

I'm a Canadian so it doesn't matter to me, but I pay $35 a month for 3GB that has no tethering charge. The tethering charge seems like a money grab.

This is real bad news if this tiered pricing happens. There's no need to go tiered pricing other than to fleece the paying customer.

This pricing sucks! I pay $30 now for unlimited / 5 GB the only industry that can call an actual amount 5GB unlimited!

They should have $10 for 1 GB $20 2 GB and for family plans you should be able to share the data so for $30 I would get 3 GB that I share among family members on my plan.

If they are going to tier the plans as long as I stay under the amount I am paying for I should be able to use the amount I paid for any way I need like tether or share it in a family plan. Family plans the only thing that is shared is minutes should be able to share texts, and data as well.

So $50 for 4GB with tethering. That's much better than my $55 for 1GB with tethering... And yet people will complain about THIS pricing...

Love my unlimited too and att granfathers cust in with what they currently got so...I will stay unlm! :)

I really like my "Unlimited" data plan.

I hope they don't mandate these new plans on existing customers updating their phones.

Nope, no change here. Will need to see what my data usage is now though so I can adjust. We don't tether so that won't be an issue.

And AT&T can have all the better pricing plans they want, they don't have the coverage in my area that Verizon does.

1st!!! Lame pricing, ATT pricing is better!