{"id":163,"date":"2010-10-31T01:53:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T01:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-12-16T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T06:51:47","slug":"verizon-wireless-tiered-data-plans-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Wireless tiered data plans now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/verizon_wireless_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-165\" title=\"verizon_wireless_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/verizon_wireless_logo-150x66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"77\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verizon Wireless<\/strong> has started their tiered data plans for smartphones this week, giving users more options for their phone bandwidth needs.<\/p>\n<div>Subscribers will now have the chance to purchase 150MB a month for $15, or keep their unlimited plan for $30.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.&#8217; largest carrier has said in the past that 95 percent of  users don&#8217;t need unlimited plans as a good portion use under 100MB per  monthly cycle, especially BlackBerry users which tend to use the phone&#8217;s  data for email and quick browsing only.<\/p>\n<p>Five percent of smartphone users use about 50 percent of all data bandwidth, added Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>The $15 package is a &#8220;holiday promotion&#8221; but Verizon is likely to make it permanent.<\/p>\n<p>the asian times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Wireless has started their tiered data plans for smartphones this week, giving users more options for their phone bandwidth needs. Subscribers will now have the chance to purchase 150MB a month for $15, or keep their unlimited plan for $30. The U.S.&#8217; largest carrier has said in the past that 95 percent of users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}