You’ll Fritter away Your Verizon LTE Data Allowance In barely Half an Hour [Data Plans]

Verizon’s LTE is coming, and it’s fast ! Fast enough to burn through the complete 5GB monthly data quota in 32 minutes, according to PC Mag . How much were those overage charges, again?

Of course, you’d really should make a concerted effort to chew up that much data in that little time-but it surely’s easier than you would think, especially at the 21Mbps speeds PC Mag saw. Generally, though, on Verizon’s plan that you could watch about 7 hours of Netflix in standard def, say. Or two hours of BitTorrent downloads. After that: poof. Your monthly allowance is gone. $10 per GB thereafter, please.

The low caps make LTE a conundrum for heavy users. You’ve finally got the speeds to beat the net (or as a minimum watch quite a lot of goofy videos) but a potentially severe financial penalty for actually doing so. It’s early days, though, and Verizon’s indicated that data plans could evolve at the side of networks. We’ll never come again to the days of the all-you-can-download buffet . But hopefully we’ll have the ability to use our shiny new toys without paying throughout the nose. [ PC Mag ]

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