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Verizon Says It Knows You Don't Need Unlimited Data (digitaltrends.com)
Ed Oswald, writing for DigitalTrends: While the wireless industry is moving back to unlimited data, one carrier is not. Verizon chief financial officer Fred Shammo told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York on Thursday that his company doesn't think you need it, and slammed current offerings. "At the end of the day, people don't need unlimited plans," Shammo said. While this is not the first time he's said this -- in March he claimed unlimited data "doesn't work in an LTE environment," and in 2011 he helped Verizon move away from unlimited plans -- it's now an entirely different market.
Nobody needs unlimited data, because nobody can use infinite amounts of data, they just need as much data as they use.
The problem is, nobody knows how much they need, because it's impossible for the average person to gauge data usage.
How much data does going to facebooks website take? Will I get the regular version of the site or the mobile version? Do I have a lot of pictures posted on my wall this time or not? How many times will I go there? Does my provider count facebook data against me or is it included in some fucked up social media exclusion promo? That's just one website. Throw in youtube, netflix, music streaming, mobile gaming, how is anyone supposed to fucking know what they need?
That's why everyone wants unlimited plans, so they don't have to worry about it.
That's how their plan works starting recently (if you convert to the new one). I ended up saving about $30 a month and have rollover data and if I use it all up I get throttled instead of charged. You complained about them not having their exact current plan.