Verizon Wireless to offer family data plans

Verizon Wireless will offer family plans for data services, supporting multiple devices including smartphones and tablet computers. The launch date of the new plans is not known yet, but according to Reuters, Verizon wants first to remove smartphone plans that allow unlimited Web access for a flat fee. Instead, it will offer tiered pricing that forces heavy data users to pay more for mobile data.

Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo comments the new plans:

"We had individual minutes for individual users. Then we eventually got to what we call family share where everyone in the family shares the same minutes. I think it's safe to assume that at some point you are going to have mega-plans (for data) and people are going to share that mega-plan based on the number of devices within their family. That's just a logical progression".

Read the full Reuters story -here-