Verizon Wireless Lowers Data Prices

Good news – well, sort of good news – for heavy data users. Verizon Wireless today lowered their rates for everyone using their broadband network with PCs, whether you’ve got a cellular modem, a MiFi or one of their new netbooks. (MiFi owners actually already got the lower rates.)

For folks on Verizon’s $59.99, 5 GB plan, they’ve cut the data overage fee from $250/GB to a mere $50/GB. That’s still fearsome, and it’ll prevent you from using your cellular line as a primary home connection, but at least it’s a fifth of what it used to be.

Verizon also now offers a $39.99 plan with 250 MB/month and a $100/GB overage fee.

If you want to use your phone as a modem, you can save $10 over having a dedicated PC modem. Verizon’s 5 GB Broadband Connect phone-as-modem plan costs $49.99 with a voice plan, though oddly it gets more expensive for smart phone users – if you have a $29.99 data plan, the modem feature costs $30, bringing your total price up to $59.99.

These high rates still prevent mobile broadband from penetrating to the masses, but that probably makes Verizon happy; wireless carriers are worried about the network overloads that would happen if too many people started streaming Hulu on their PCs over cellular connections at once.

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