Verizon Wireless has overhauled its service plans to allow customers to use their data allotments across multiple devices.
Up until now, Verizon and its largest competitors have had to pay separate data charges for each device.
The nation's largest cell phone provider's new plans, which also change how customers pay for texting and phone calls, will go into effect on June 28.
"Today's move by Verizon ... is the most profound change to pricing the telecom industry has seen in 20 years," Craig Moffett, an analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a research note.
Chief rival AT&T could follow suit very soon, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal also put together a Q&A on what Verizon's "Share Everything" plan means for current customers. A couple highlights:
- Customers on a tiered data plan can stay on their current plan or switch to a new one. Customers on an unlimited data plan must switch when they buy a new phone at a discount.
- There is a monthly charge for each device on a data plan. The Q&A breaks it down.
So, how much will the new plan cost you? That depends on all sorts of factors, but Verizon Wireless has a calculator on its website to help figure that out.
New Verizon Share Everything plan is too complex for customers to grasp all at once, and it's too expensive, analyst says By Matt Hamblen June 13, 2012 01:01 PM ET25 Comments . What's this? Computerworld - Verizon Wireless botched the launch of its Share Everything voice, texting and data plans by making too many drastic and costly changes at once, analysts said Wednesday. "Big steps like [Share Everything], particularly when they come with sharp [price] increases, tend to scare the hell out of existing customers, and Verizon might actually lose a bunch as a result," said Rob Enderle, an analyst at Enderle Group. The widespread negative reaction by customers on various Web sites seen after Tuesday's announcement "is similar to the Netflix mistake last year that almost sunk that company," Enderle said. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228059/Verizon_s_botched_Share_Everything_launch_could_sink_carrier
We are on Long Island howcome I get better cell service Upstate in the middle of nowhere then here?
So they are hiding the fact that it will be mor eexpensive. I hope you are reading into your bill . Data overages will make your bill very very expensive.