Is there a data plan better than $80/10gig?

Question

I recently relocated to rural AR to take care of my mother following surgery. She is using Verizon wireless as her ISP and has the $80/10gig plan. Based on our now combined internet usage that cap is far, far too low. Is there a higher tier or unlimited plan available? If not I will look into other providers when her contract ends next month. The option to throttle back speed rather than pay for overages would also be acceptable but the plan cost and low data cap with charges for going over is simply not going to work for the eight month recovery period when I will be here.

Answer 1

Actually yes it is. It's certainly a second tier option you only choose when a hard line connection isn't available but it's the only internet solution for some rural areas and even areas that aren't truly rural just in a dead zone between two infrastructures.
Considering the limited applications where it makes sense to utilize this type of service in the manner we require not having higher tier packages even at an unreasonable price (which I already consider current capped plans to be) makes no sense. The number of people who would want, much less need the service is small and could not possibly come close to placing a strain of the network. Expecting wired speeds and unlimited data for a cost comparative to a wired connection is unreasonable. Desiring reasonable speeds (which to me would be as low as 1MB/s) with a datacap high enough to allow reasonable ability to utilize that speed in 2014 is not that out there. The ability to provide reasonably high data caps at a fair price to an extreme minority is both possible and profitable. When there is doubt about which is cheaper between renting a cheap apartment and paying for utilities and a wired connection v a 100GB data cap ($500-600 on the plans I could find) for rural internet alone something is wrong.  But my personal views on telcom pricing and exploitation of consumers aside my question was if there were other, unadvertised solutions available.