Verizon Wireless nixing unlimited data

Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile operator in the country, get rid of their unlimited data plan for the new smartphone customers starting Thursday, shifting instead of the limited data plans, which allow users from 2 to 10 gigabytes of data per month.
With the change, Verizon joins the company of compatriots carriers AT & T Inc. and T-Mobile USA, which have both set limits on monthly data usage. Sprint Nextel Corp, the third largest carrier of the country continues to offer unlimited plan.
By getting rid of all of you-can-eat data plans, carriers are trying to move users from the expectation that they may have as much data as they want for one price, and with respect to pay for what they actually use - that can more importance as carriers invest in the deployment of high-speed "4G", or fourth-generation data networks.
"Let's be honest: we are the way for the long term," spokeswoman Brenda Raney Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday. "But it gives customers more control of how they want to spend their discretionary dollars on wireless communications."
Later this week, the new Verizon wireless smartphone users to choose between paying $ 30 for 2GB, $ 50 for 5 gigabytes or 80 dollars for 10 gigabytes of monthly usage data. Customers who use more than their allocation are charged $ 10 for each additional gigabyte.
Rival AT & T charges $ 25 a month for 2 gigabytes of data, and $ 45 for 4GB. Excessive fees the same.
The current unlimited plan Verizon Wireless "cost existing users $ 30 a month. And while it sounds tempting to have an unlimited data usage by 95 percent of Verizon Wireless customers to use less than 2 gigabytes per month.
Verizon Wireless customers who already have unlimited data plan you can save it, whether or not they have a long-term contract with the company. But existing customers who want to trade up to a smartphone from a standard cell phone - often referred to as a feature of the phone - will not be able to get the unlimited tariff plan, beginning Thursday. Plan for the users of your phone, which gives them 75 megabytes of data usage per month will cost $ 10.
AT & T introduced the limited data plans a year ago and T-Mobile has changed its unlimited plan in May. T-Mobile does not charge any fees excessive, but it is slow the rate at which customers can send and receive data when they hit their monthly allotment.