According to Engadget, Verizon plans to eschew the "limited unlimited" type of plan and keep a $30 unlimited data package for smartphone users. These users are given choice "between $15 for 150MB with $0.10 / MB overage, or $29.99 for unlimited access." This is obviously a huge difference from the data plans that AT&T offers with their caps on data and steep overages on phone plans that blow past the soft cap. As a Verizon customer with the Droid 2, I constantly use the 3G network and have the unlimited data package to go with the phone.
The universally asked question with every move that Verizon makes is: How will this affect the iPhone coming to the network? This continuation of the unlimited data plan on Verizon says two things. One is that Verizon is more confident that their 3G network can hold the intense data draw that the iPhone would command. They plan to roll out their 4G network at the end of the year and perhaps push many of the existing data over to the 4G network. Keeping in mind that the current iPhone has no 4G capabilities, it would make it easier for Verizon's data systems to try to push phones to 4G and leave the iPhone to the 3G network. This also shows that Verizon is trying to cement its place as the number one phone carrier which will get one of the most critically acclaimed phones of this generation.
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