The Wall Street Journal reports today that Verizon is planning to offer unlimited data plans to its iPhone users, and will start selling the iPhone later this month.
Verizon Wireless has been beefing up its network and believes it will have no problem handling iPhone-type loads, a claim that could be put to the test this year if the carrier signs up millions of subscribers using the Apple Inc. device.
Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest wireless carrier, is confident enough in its network that it will offer unlimited data-use plans when it starts selling the iPhone around the end of this month, a person familiar with the matter said. Such plans would provide a key means of distinguishing its service from rival AT&T Inc., which limits how much Internet data such as videos and photos its customers may use each month.
I’m going to go ahead and treat the Verizon iPhone announcement tomorrow as an absolute given now, just as many other sites seem to be doing. Offering an unlimited data plan would really be swinging for the fences in terms of attracting disgruntled AT&T users. I wonder if the Verizon network really can handle the load that iPhone users create if, as expected, they sell many millions of iPhones in a short number of months this year.
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