The problem is... It sucks! Yeah big surprise here these new Data Plans really won't save you money. Turns out that instead of just charging you one lump sum for a certain amount of data, say 3 Gigs or so, you are still charged per device. Check out the chart below.
As you can see from the chart it is still a per device option so say for a smartphone it is still $40 per phone. now to ad the amount of shared data you want refer to step 2 which is $50. So basically if you were a small family with two smartphones you would be paying $80 for your line access and an extra $50 for the 1 Gig of shared data. So pay a total of $130. Now this may be about $10 cheaper than most people are paying now with Verizon, but look a little closer, you are also losing 1 gig of data. Yeah not a great deal if you are asking me.
So what is Verizon's intent on this? Well it is basically a redesign on how they do data plans and how much you would get charged for overages. Theoretically, if you say barely ever use any of your data per month and your spouse always goes over their limit then instead of getting dinged $10 each time you will get to share that data and hopefully avoid that overage fee. So yes there is one way of saving money but remember again you are getting 1 whole gig less data when you share so possibly its not going to save you much at all since you would probably need to bump yourselves to a higher data amount so then again there goes that money you saved.
Now AT&T says they were thinking of doing the shared data plans as well. Let's see how they end up doing it as well. This is would be a good time for them to come in and actually save people money without actually removing some of what they get. But that is in a perfect world and just like Verizon, AT&T wants the money.
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