Verizon Wireless today revealed how much it will charge iPhone 4 users for voice, text and data service.
• 450 minutes for $40/month
• 900 minutes for $60/month
• Unlimited minutes for $70/month
• Unlimited data for $30/month (temporary offer)
• 2 GB of data for tethering or hot-spotting for $20/month.
• 250 messages for $5/month
• 500 messages for $10/month
• Pay-per-use for 20 cents/text
• Unlimited messages for $20/month
Verizon Wireless will charge $199.99 for the 16GB model and $299.99 for the 32GB model with a new two year customer agreement.
iPhone 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10. Qualified Verizon Wireless customers will be given the exclusive opportunity to pre-order iPhone 4 online on February 3 at 3am ET, ahead of general availability.
Source: Verizon Wireless
@ ken1w:
I may end up doing the same, these monthly fees are getting out of hand.
I hope the iPhone 5 adds T-Mobile or Sprint radio support.
Verizon, then Sprint and T-mobile will be selling the iPhone. Competition for subscribers will result in lower rates.
Apple have already changed the landscape for mobile phones. First the relationship with the cellular carrier. The next thing will be changing the price structure. It will take a bit longer but competition will lower the costs.
@DogGone: I sure hope so. My Verizon family plan for 4 vanilla phones costs me $150 a month, and that is with a 22% discount. I can’t imagine adding the $30 iphone data plan and $20 hotspot charge per month on top of that. I have enough other expenses in my life, I can’t justify that.
If I do anything, it would be to get a Virgin Mobile Mifi for $40 per month with no contract, and use my iPod touch as a poor man’s iPhone. And be able to connect four other devices to it when necessary.
All the complaints about how “these companies rape us.”
Ummm, you don’t have to buy their product.
Those prices, especially the voice minutes seem pretty steep. I was under the assumption that more competition would mean attractive prices.
Also, why does one have to pay additionally for tethering/hotspotting if one is already on an unlimited plan.
The extra cost for the unlimited plan should be the same as for tethering/hotspotting, i.e., just $10 of $15 above a limited data plan.
I bet AT&T will be very happy with those prices.
Also why isn’t there a plan with only few minutes and ample data?
Verizon hasn’t seen that some people mainly use a smartphone for its “smart” functions.
@Michael
I could see T-mobile in the sometime near future getting the iPhone, but I don’t see it with Sprint. Why? Simply because of how Sprint has decided to do 4G. Verizon, At&t, and T-mobile all are going with LTE, meanwhile, Sprint has gone Wi-max. Wi-max allowed Sprint to get out the gate as the first “4G” provider (I say “4G” because really, even now, no company has true 4G or will for a little while), but they suffer because they are not using the standard. For Apple to consider doing a Sprint phone, they would need to use yet another chip in their phone that would support Wi-max. Not only would that be battery draining and take up valuable space, it would also mean Apple make a product that can only be used on one carrier worldwide, and a slowly dying one at that
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For once it looks like Canada has a better cell phone option. Tethering is free here I believe with all the providers, but the price for plans is still retarted.
What a rip off company!!!!