During an investorâs conference, Chief Financial Officer, Fran Shammo of Verizon said that âcustomers donât need unlimited plansâ, not only shutting the door for a chance to see unlimited plans come back to Big Red, but also slammed a bar in front of it and locking up with chains.
Just a few short years ago, carriers had already done away with unlimited data and began using tiered plans, even T-Mobile. But that was when T-Mobile shook up the US carrier market with its âUncarrierâ campaign, which is thanks to many changes that benefit customers.
Today, both T-Mobile and Sprint offer new unlimited plans available to all customers, as well as AT&T, though you need to be an existing DirecTV subscriber to take advantage of They do have some caveats though, such as âoptimizedâ video quality and heavily throttled tethering, which caps off for T-Mobile at about 1/2 Mbps.
In its most recent ad campaigns, Verizon touts its 20GB of âlimitlessâ monthly (shared between 4 lines) data for $160 a month, trying to poke at the other carriers (specifically, T-Mobile) who throttle video streams or tethering. While itâs true that you do need to pay more with T-Mobileâs One Plan if you need to tether or would like to stream HD video, but if you donât need to, then why pay for it?
Verizon believes the âsimplicity of its plansâ are âmore user-friendlyâ. Shammo also says that âUnlimited users tend to be abusiveâ, so in the eyes of Verizon and its investors, there is no way giving free data can be profitable.
What do you think? Is Verizon being stingy with its data plans or is it right for sticking to its guns and keeping its bandwidth open for those who paid for it?
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