Verizon Could Move to Family Data Plans in 2012
Verizon Could Move to Family Data Plans in 2012
Posted 12/07/2011 at 3:43pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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While not offering any specifics, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has again raised the issue of family data pricing. Consumers have been begging for a carrier to move in this direction for years, and McAdam seems at least open to the idea. According to the CEO, a family data plan for multiple devices could arrive in 2012.
The basic premise is that users already have family plans for cell phone minutes, so why not let them share a large bucket of data as well? McAdam acknowledged the problem explaining that consumers should not have to deal with separate data plans for each screen in the home. He went on to claim that Verizon has been working to get to account-level pricing for a few years.
There was quite an uproar when Verizon moved to a tiered data plan setup earlier this year. Some users find themselves stuck on higher tiers due to high data usage. At least if family data pricing happens, some users could catch a break in situations where one or more people never approache existing caps.
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Holly Golightly
December 07, 2011 at 6:49pm
Oh gosh no. The fact that I each member has to count how many kilobytes they use... Now we can bundle that up by having everyone in the family count each other's kilobyte usage. Nice try Verizon, but Clearwire is the future. Consumers don't want to count how many kilobytes an advertisement takes up. You can't treat broadband the same way you treat cellphones. But what am I talking about? These guys ARE a cellphone company. So it seems rather inevitable that they would do such metering.
Mark210
December 08, 2011 at 4:10am
Came across this site. http://clearwiresucks.com/blog/ Many unhappy customers.
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