Ina Fried in Mobile on December 27, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
The carrier still wants its users to rely on Wi-Fi, but says it won’t cut off those who use cellular networks too much.
Voices
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 17, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Wireless-phone customers will begin receiving real-time alerts next year if they are about to go over their monthly voice, data or text-message limits under new voluntary industry standards set to be announced on Monday.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT
Verizon’s ThunderBolt 4G cellphone is a speed demon, zipping past rival 4G phones’ cellular-data speeds and even past many home land-line Internet connections.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 4, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
The price of the iPad isn’t changing with Apple’s new tablet, but people are getting some additional options when it comes to wireless data plans. With the original, there were just a couple of options from AT&T, while the new version comes in both Verizon and AT&T models and there are a few additional options from AT&T that weren’t there the first time around.
For those who are confused, fret not. Mobilized has the skinny–and a handy chart breaking things down.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 9, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Dell’s Streak 7 is the least expensive tablet from a major manufacturer and claims to be the first capable of 4G cellular speeds, but the compromises made to get the price down make it impossible to recommend.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:55 pm PT
No surprises here: Worldwide mobile data traffic is exploding. But the degree to which it’s exploding is pretty remarkable. Between 2009 and 2010, mobile data traffic nearly tripled. And according to
Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Traffic Forecast, it will see a 26-fold increase by 2015. Staggering, though perhaps to be expected given the proliferation of data-intensive mobile devices. Cisco predicts that by 2015, there will be 7.1 billion of them slurping up 75 exabytes of data (an exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes). No wonder the unlimited data plan is being phased out.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 25, 2011 at 3:29 am PT
When the iPhone goes live on Verizon’s network on Feb. 10, the carrier will indeed offer it with an unlimited data plan, as I reported earlier this month. But not because of an exception it’s made for the iPhone–because it’s doing away with its tiered smartphone data plan entirely.
Voices
Roger Cheng, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 19, 2010 at 10:34 am PT
Verizon Wireless plans to introduce a less expensive, but restricted, data plan for smartphone customers next week, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a move that follows AT&T Inc.’s own capped offerings.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 2, 2010 at 11:20 am PT
The new iAds that Apple launched yesterday are interesting. But they had better be: You’re going to shell out part of your data budget to see them.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 2, 2010 at 11:20 am PT
The new iAds that Apple launched yesterday are interesting. But they had better be: You’re going to shell out part of your data budget to see them.
