![]() His e-mail address is more about mobile/wireless in Computerworld's Mobile/Wireless Topic Center. Follow Matt on Twitter at or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. ![]() Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. 23.īoth the Verizon and AT&T plans fix a monthly cost per device in addition to the shared data cost. While Raney, Sherman and others questioned whether many users would need 20GB in a month, that amount is relatively easy to hit if shared across 10 users.Īs an example, a single cellular download of a high definition full-length movie can use up more than 3GB of data - downloading the movie for 7 users would exceed the 20GB limit.ĪT&T evidently saw the probability of 10 users wanting 20 GB by including it as the top tier in its published Mobile Share plan, coming Aug. Theoretically, if a customer purchased 10GB for $100, then used an added 10 GB without arranging for it in advance, the overage would be $150, for a total monthly data charge of $250. ![]() Verizon also has an overage charge of $15 per 1GB of data for exceeding a plan's allowance. To get to 20 GB - or 12GB, 14GB, 16GB or 18GB - a customer must arrange with customer service to get that allotment as part of a monthly plan, Raney said. 5G Unlimited plans: 10/mo account discount applied to single line 25/mo account discount applied to 2-3 lines 20/mo account discount applied to 4+ lines. Raney said that customers needing more than 10GB in a given month can buy 2GB for $10 by logging into their account on the tab "My Verizon" at However, she said that capability only applies to purchasing one allotment of 2GB of extra data per month, not multiple ones. In the traditional world of contract-based cell phone carriers, plans are doled out based on data usage, offering plans from as little as 5GB of data with unlimited talk and text to 20GB of hotspot data and 100GB of cloud storage. Sherman derived the Verizon 20GB charge by noticing a footnote on its Web site that says Verizon will charge $10/month for 2GB if a customer needs more than 10GB of data. Sherman noticed that Verizon's charge of $150 for 20 GB would be $50 less than AT&T's $200 monthly charge for sharing 20 GB across 10 users. Computerworld contacted Verizon about the upper tiers after a reader, Bryan Sherman, commented on a Computerworld story that compared Verizon's shared data costs with those of AT&T's coming Mobile Share plans.
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