Robbo
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Verizon Wireless announced a fundamental change in the way it charges consumers for voice and data calls, a move that is likely to have far-reaching implications for the mobile industry.
The company will abandon its monthly voice and data plans in favour of “Share Everything” plans that emphasise data usage over voice minutes.
The move positions Verizon Wireless, and other operators that are likely to follow suit, to abandon the distinction between voice and data calls as voice becomes simply another application running over their 4G networks.
The new plans, which will be introduced on June 28 for new monthly subscribers, feature unlimited voice and SMS messaging and metered monthly data allowances that can be shared by up to 10 devices.
A new smartphone subscriber, for example, would pay a monthly access fee of $40 that includes unlimited calls and texts, and a fee of $60 for two gigabytes of data that could be shared between devices.
Each additional device would also pay a monthly access tariff of $10 for a PC tablet or $20 for a laptop.
Essentially intended to put a floor on voice and text revenue and drive further data rveenue by increased family smartphone and, esp, tablet revenue. US only, but EU operators likely to follow
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bubble
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Vodafone done this for years already with EBU. Shared tariffs across upto 100 ctns iirc.
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Robbo
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yes of course, commonplace in the business ector but the first time tis been attempted in consumer services 
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noshua
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Needed to happen a long time ago in the UK, data limits on mobile phones are a joke, when 4G finally comes I can see this being implemented here.
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bubble
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Be interesting to see how it takes off here as consumer ws normally ctns with separate bens on the bans.
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Rob_Quads
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Originally posted by noshua
Needed to happen a long time ago in the UK, data limits on mobile phones are a joke, when 4G finally comes I can see this being implemented here.
You do realise as a consumer its very unlikely your going to be getting any more MB for your money. They are not going to change the pricing model so you now get twice as much data.
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dannymccann
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How will this affect me? Atm I struggle to get 3G in Lincoln city centre, let alone HSDPA or even better, 4G 
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Sam
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Originally posted by bubble
Be interesting to see how it takes off here as consumer ws normally ctns with separate bens on the bans.
LOLWUT?!
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John
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He does that all the time.
Figures don't look very good to me, certainly not any better than what's available now.
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Rob_Quads
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I think the idea of having family plans is a good one although I can see when it involves childen that you could run into some problems. You almost need a family plan but still be able to restrict it per user otherwise son/daughter will spank it all on youtube
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bubble
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Originally posted by John
He does that all the time.
Figures don't look very good to me, certainly not any better than what's available now.
Yes John. I do that all the time. Out of the 6000 or so posts, nearly everyone of them has abbreviations in that only a select few people understand. Get a grip.
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John
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You do it deliberately because you think people won't understand them though.
We've had the same conversation more than once.
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bubble
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Originally posted by Sam
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Originally posted by bubble
Be interesting to see how it takes off here as consumer ws normally ctns with separate bens on the bans.
LOLWUT?!
Sorry Sam I do that all the time apparently.
As robbo knew what I would be talking about it was easier to use abbreviated names as he would understand them. I was saying it would be interesting how it works as normal ctns (consumer telephone numbers) have their own bens (billing entity numbers) on the bans (billing account numbers) so my point was its unlikely that a family of say 5 people would be happy to all pay a fee to gain access to data when the chances are someone in the family may use more than someone else. As it stands now with billing systems, you can have one account, with multiple numbers on, and assign different payment info to each number through use of a ben. When it comes to a share plan, like the new VZW plans it's split into fees, so not entirely fair for usage reasons.
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bubble
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Originally posted by John
You do it deliberately because you think people won't understand them though.
We've had the same conversation more than once.
As it was robbo who I was talking too, it made no difference.
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