Sprint – New 4G Data Plans
Sprint has started trialling two new 4G only mobile broadband plans for customers in some of its sixty-nine 4G phone markets.
Sprint’s 4G Mobile Broadband Connect data plan costs $50 per month which is $10 less than its regular combined 3G / 4G monthly data plan. The plan can be used with the Sprint U1901 USB modem in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Greensboro, N.C., Houston, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Seattle.
There’s also a 4G Desktop Modem Connection Plan – meant as a replacement for fixed line broadband connections – for $45 per month. Users can also share their 4G connection throughout their home or office by using the CPEi25150 desktop modem as a broadband router.
Verizon 4G Data Plans (True Costs?)
Coming hot on the heels of Verizon CFO John Killian’s statement that cellphone “customers will pay for quality and premium service and premium speed”, a leading analyst in the mobile industry has said he thinks Verizon will price its 4G data plans at an extra $10-$15 per month.
Berge Ayvazian of Heavy Reading said, “I expect Verizon to charge a $10 to $15 premium for 4G LTE service over straight EVDO”.
Verizon is due to launch it upcoming 4G phone network in the first half of next year with cities such as
Philadelphia and San Francisco likely to be among the first markets to be switched on.
No Unlimited Data Plans for Verizon 4G
When Verizon’s 4G network is finally rolled out it plans to charge phone users differently for its 4G services.
Instead of offering unlimited mobile data plans or per minute voice plans, Verizon is likely to use a system of data “buckets”. These are designed, Verizon says, to make more sense of the huge growth in 4G smartphone related traffic that’s expected as more 4G phones access the mobile networks more often.
Verizon plans to offer 4G in 30 – 40 markets by the end of the year with a complete national 4G network in place by 2013.
