Droid X Users are Data Hogs
It’s not as if the Motorola Droid X is the first smartphone to roll through Verizon, but apparently it’s enough of an upgrade over previous devices to warrant a significant increase in data usage.
“On Droid X, we’re seeing something like 5x the data usage of any other device,” said Jennifer Byrne, a business development executive director at Verizon.
What makes this even more remarkable is that the Droid X has only officially been on the market for a week. This also could be the final in the coffin for Verizon’s unlimited data plan, which earlier in the year Verizon CTO Dick Lynch hinted might be coming to an end.
“The problem we have today with flat-based usage is that you are trying to encourage customers to be efficient in use and applications but you are getting some people who are bandwidth hogs using gigabytes a month and they are paying something like megabytes a month,” Lynch said. “That isn’t long-term sustainable. Why should customers using an average amount of bandwidth be subsidizing bandwidth hogs?”
More recently, reports began to surface that Verizon plans to move to a tiered pricing plan similar to AT&T’s starting on July 29, though it’s unclear how closely Verizon’s will stack up.
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- MaximumPc.com
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