Verizon Data Plan Charges

Verizon is missing a business opportunity by not introducing 2-tier data plan pricing.  I would get a smart phone if they had a lower price for customers who would use low data rates, such as ATT has introduced.  I do not need to download much data and therefore cannot justify their $30 monthly data plan fee currently required for smart phones.  Therefore, I will not get a smart phone and Verizon is losing the potential additional income which they would get from me if they had a lower tier data plan at ~$15 per month.
kriegerrb

kriegerrb wrote:
Verizon is missing a business opportunity by not introducing 2-tier data plan pricing.  I would get a smart phone if they had a lower price for customers who would use low data rates, such as ATT has introduced.  I do not need to download much data and therefore cannot justify their $30 monthly data plan fee currently required for smart phones.  Therefore, I will not get a smart phone and Verizon is losing the potential additional income which they would get from me if they had a lower tier data plan at ~$15 per month.
kriegerrb
They are going tiered, ya have to wait til LTE is released, or maybe the holiday season.
Understand though your they are not missing your $15  by the way the plans are currently set.

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