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U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year
An anonymous reader sends this news from the NY Times Bits Blog:
"Two big shifts happened in the American cellphone industry over the past year: Cellular networks got faster, and smartphone screens got bigger. In the United States, consumers used an average of 1.2 gigabytes a month over cellular networks this year, up from 690 megabytes a month in 2012, according to Chetan Sharma, a consultant for wireless carriers, who published a new report on industry trends on Monday. Worldwide, the average consumption was 240 megabytes a month this year, up from 140 megabytes last year, he said."
You don't have to do business with Verizon, there are other cellular carriers
In a lot of places, it's either Verizon, no signal, no signal, or no signal.
You don't have to do business with Verizon, there are other cellular carriers
In a lot of places, it's either Verizon, no signal, no signal, or no signal.
You don't need to use Verizon to use Verizon towers. this page lists 9 companies which basically resell Verizon service. Many of these don't have Verizon's "hard" data cap. Many sell "unlimited" service with a "soft" cap. After the cap you are limited to 56k->ISDN type speeds, which sounds bad, until you realize that unless you stream music or video, a lot of what you would do on a phone would be passing only small amounts of data around.