Verizon to End Unlimited Data Thursday

I knew this day was com­ing. AT&T did it last year and Ver­i­zon was hold­ing on as long as they could. Unlim­it­ed Data plans for new cus­tomers on the Ver­i­zon net­work will van­ish this Thurs­day, July 7^th. The Ver­i­zon net­work is very strong and does not have the drop call prob­lem AT&T had with many of their smart­phones. So, if you are look­ing at switch­ing to Ver­i­zon, I’d def­i­nite­ly do it in the next 1 ¹⁄₂ days. Smart­phones for your busi­ness is a fan­tas­tic idea, even for some of your employ­ees. You can shoot and post videos and pho­tos to the web right from your phone. After Thurs­day, the data will be lim­it­ed. Most like­ly Ver­i­zon will set the lim­it to 2GB as the start­ing point of their data plan ($30 a month). To be hon­est, that is actu­al­ly plen­ty of data. The only rea­son you’d go over that is if you ​“teth­er” your phone to a lap­top or decide on watch­ing a Net­flix film! If you want to watch a movie on your phone, make sure you are con­nect­ed to a wifi and DON’T use the 3 or 4G net­work. Final­ly, the only down­side to this lim­it­ed data (for new­bies) is that they can’t skype or do video con­fer­enc­ing in the field. This too will burn up data usage in no time. What car­ri­er do you cur­rent­ly use? Do you use a smart­phone for your busi­ness or any type of device? To read more about the new plan, vis­it the WSJ arti­cle. Side note about AT&T: If you are with AT&T…one rea­son to stay with them vs. Ver­i­zon is that you can search the web and talk on the phone at the same time. That is a good fea­ture if you need web access while you are doing a busi­ness meet­ing. Ver­i­zon web search only works when you are not talk­ing on the phone or are con­nect­ed to a wifi. spot. This is because AT&T uses GSM radios and Ver­i­zon uses CDMA radios. I believe Sprint is the same as Verizon.