Verizon's Shammo expects tiered data pricing to deliver future ARPU gains - FierceWireless
Reading that article makes my blood boil slightly. They keep touting the amazing things you can do with a smartphone such as Netflix, offering current LG Revolution buyers 3 months of free NetFlix. They know its data-intensive and want you to go over your caps and pay for overages or better yet, upgrade from the 2gb/$30 to the $50 and $80 plans. They claim all the wonderful things you can do and then saddle you with a 2gb measly minimum cap.
What Verizon and the other cell phone companies are doing is brilliantly evil. They want to get us hooked on mobile data, then swiftly take away unlimited plans and force us on tiered pricing and high overages to get them more money than they know what they can do with.
I will clutch onto my grandfathered unlimited plan for dear life. But it sounds like the way things are going, I'll have to go back to a feature-phone within a few years. I'm certainly hooked with my Droid Charge, watching YouTube all the time and such. I don't want to worry about going over my limit and then paying good old greedy Verizon more than they deserve.
To me, it feels a lot like getting customers hooked onto a drug and controlling them with that addiction. You see more more and more people are getting smartphones at a rapid pace and these wireless companies will bleed them dry. I know if I was a big fat VZW executive, I'd be rubbing my hands with glee right now.
Reading that article makes my blood boil slightly. They keep touting the amazing things you can do with a smartphone such as Netflix, offering current LG Revolution buyers 3 months of free NetFlix. They know its data-intensive and want you to go over your caps and pay for overages or better yet, upgrade from the 2gb/$30 to the $50 and $80 plans. They claim all the wonderful things you can do and then saddle you with a 2gb measly minimum cap.
What Verizon and the other cell phone companies are doing is brilliantly evil. They want to get us hooked on mobile data, then swiftly take away unlimited plans and force us on tiered pricing and high overages to get them more money than they know what they can do with.
I will clutch onto my grandfathered unlimited plan for dear life. But it sounds like the way things are going, I'll have to go back to a feature-phone within a few years. I'm certainly hooked with my Droid Charge, watching YouTube all the time and such. I don't want to worry about going over my limit and then paying good old greedy Verizon more than they deserve.
To me, it feels a lot like getting customers hooked onto a drug and controlling them with that addiction. You see more more and more people are getting smartphones at a rapid pace and these wireless companies will bleed them dry. I know if I was a big fat VZW executive, I'd be rubbing my hands with glee right now.