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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

[merge with T-Mobile exec story?]

Verizon has raised its phone upgrade fee [arstechnica.com] to "cover increased cost" of providing a 4G LTE network, despite its latest earnings report showing decreases in wireless capital expenditures. Verizon later "clarified" that it was referring to "ongoing costs to maintain and enhance the network".

Additionally, Verizon Wireless customers with grandfathered-in unlimited data plans will be disconnected or forced to switch to a limited plan [arstechnica.com] if they use more than 200 GB of data a month on average. The company stopped offering the unlimited data plans in 2011. During Verizon's last purge, customers using more than 500 GB of data per month were targeted.

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