{"id":582284,"date":"2010-05-27T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/27\/verizon-plans-to-implement-tiered-lte-data-plans-lte-voice-by-2012\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T16:55:00","slug":"verizon-plans-to-implement-tiered-lte-data-plans-lte-voice-by-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582284","title":{"rendered":"Verizon plans to implement tiered LTE data plans, LTE voice by 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/106713-lte.jpg\" alt=\"LTE logo\" width=\"399\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While speaking at the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media &amp; Technology conference in New York this week, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam discussed everything affecting his network, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/26\/htc-droid-incredible-back-on-verizon-site-ships-june-16th\/\" >shortage of DROID Incredibles<\/a>.&nbsp; McAdam also covered LTE and how Verizon plans to implement data plans once its 4G network goes live.&nbsp; Rather than continue on with plans that include a 5 GB cap that exist now, Verizon will roll out tiered, non-unlimited plans that offer different sizes of &#8220;buckets&#8221; of megabytes.&nbsp; This should come as good news for users who have smartphones but rarely come near the 5 GB cap as they will likely be able to choose cheaper plans that better suit their needs. <\/p>\n<p>Continuing with LTE, McAdam said that Verizon plans to move to using LTE for voice transmission by 2012, not long after the first LTE-capable phones are expected to land in 2011.&nbsp; He went on to say that those very same LTE phones will be shown off at CES 2011, so we&#8217;ll get some hands on time with Verizon&#8217;s first 4G handsets next year.&nbsp; Are you excited about Verizon&#8217;s move to LTE?&nbsp; What are your thoughts on Verizon&#8217;s tiered data plans?&nbsp; Share your opinions with us!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/05\/27\/verizon-looking-at-non-unlimited-plans-for-4g-data-will-use-lte\/\" >Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iBjtzgG6D_VbDEZOhIjYdaYSe_Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iBjtzgG6D_VbDEZOhIjYdaYSe_Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iBjtzgG6D_VbDEZOhIjYdaYSe_Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iBjtzgG6D_VbDEZOhIjYdaYSe_Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/0w9J3G_Robs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While speaking at the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media &amp; Technology conference in New York this week, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam discussed everything affecting his network, including the shortage of DROID Incredibles.&nbsp; McAdam also covered LTE and how Verizon plans to implement data plans once its 4G network goes live.&nbsp; Rather than continue on with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}