Verizon to Phase Out Most Existing Phone Plans

Reblogged from Business & Money:

NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone company, is phasing out nearly all of its existing phone plans and replacing them with pricing schemes that encourage customers to connect their non-phone devices, like tablets and PCs, to the Verizon network.

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Verizon is making a massive change to their plans allowing a single data plan to cover multiple devices. This should save families money with multiple phones, and will also encourage those considering wi-fi only devices to make the jump to pricier 4G models. So in some way or another they hope to attract more customers who spend just as much, if not more than they currently do by adding on the data plans to their cellular services. How will AT&T and other services follow?
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BYOD: The downside is beginning to show

Reblogged from VentureBeat:

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The bring-your-own-device trend has taken off, based largely on the popularity of iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. If there was ever a clear example of the consumerization of business technology, this is it, as witnessed by the sheer news coverage of the trend.

But the freedom associated with allowing employees to choose their devices comes at a price. Companies have opened up a Pandora’s box of potential technical issues, only some of which have come to light.

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