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I have been a Verizon customer for about 4 years since the iPhone 5 came out. My data usage sometimes varies a great deal depending if I'm out of town or not. I

I have been a Verizon customer for about 4 years since the iPhone 5 came out. My data usage sometimes varies a great deal depending if I'm out of town or not. I always check a couple of days before the end of my billing cycle and I can increase the plan for that month. Now the plans have larger bin sizes and it easier keeping to one plan. Because of my methods I would frequently receiving "over data" text messages as a warning. Also if one installs the Verizon iPhone app you can use a widget so I see my usage daily when checking the weather and schedule and so on. I also recommend buying the omnistat app that shows you data consumed real time.

matwood 10y ago
I would recommend not using Verizon.
- function_seven 10y ago
  I've tried T-Mobile and AT&T. Both carriers were substantially worse than VZ for mobile data speeds and dropped calls. Not just a little. Tremendously worse. The LTE on them was slower and more intermittent than VZ's 3G coverage. The switch back to VZ from AT&T (after just 3 months) cost me hundreds of dollars, and was still worth it. (Thankfully T-Mobile had a weeklong trial program that saved me from going through with that switch) VZ gets away with higher pricing and abusive customer support because their network is unmatched in my opinion. My experience is obviously anecdata, and I don't live in a densely populated city, so that may be worth noting.
  - matwood 10y ago
    Cell phone service is a conversation where anecdata matters. The carrier you have must work in the places you visit. Unfortunately for you, that only seems to be the most customer unfriendly one, Verzion. Where I live TMO data speeds are much faster than both ATT and Verizon (we have tested in the office with people on different carriers). TMO service is also better than Verizon where I live, and if you travel overseas at all nothing beats TMO. The best part of this is that all of the big carriers are improving their networks like never before. Hopefully sooner rather than later, network coverage will not be a competing point.
  - davidf18 10y ago
    In my market, NYC, VZ is by far the best provider. It has far more spectrum than AT&T, which esp for Manhattan is really important because of the density of people. Moreover, we have many large steel and concrete buildings and VZ gets the strongest signal. Data usage has grown dramatically and the spectrum availability in your market can make a difference. VZ, AT&T, and others have purchased AWS-3 Band 66 spectrum which they are brining on-line but the iPhone 7 and Galaxy 7 chips don't support it. It is 10 AM ET and I just ran a Speedtest in Upper West Side Manhattan and have 41 Mbits/sec down and 6.5 up on iPhone 7+. On iPhones, install the VZ App, install the widget, get the Omnistat app and that should help with knowing your data usage.

matwood 10y ago

I would recommend not using Verizon.

function_seven 10y ago
I've tried T-Mobile and AT&T. Both carriers were substantially worse than VZ for mobile data speeds and dropped calls. Not just a little. Tremendously worse. The LTE on them was slower and more intermittent than VZ's 3G coverage. The switch back to VZ from AT&T (after just 3 months) cost me hundreds of dollars, and was still worth it. (Thankfully T-Mobile had a weeklong trial program that saved me from going through with that switch) VZ gets away with higher pricing and abusive customer support because their network is unmatched in my opinion. My experience is obviously anecdata, and I don't live in a densely populated city, so that may be worth noting.
- matwood 10y ago
  Cell phone service is a conversation where anecdata matters. The carrier you have must work in the places you visit. Unfortunately for you, that only seems to be the most customer unfriendly one, Verzion. Where I live TMO data speeds are much faster than both ATT and Verizon (we have tested in the office with people on different carriers). TMO service is also better than Verizon where I live, and if you travel overseas at all nothing beats TMO. The best part of this is that all of the big carriers are improving their networks like never before. Hopefully sooner rather than later, network coverage will not be a competing point.
- davidf18 10y ago
  In my market, NYC, VZ is by far the best provider. It has far more spectrum than AT&T, which esp for Manhattan is really important because of the density of people. Moreover, we have many large steel and concrete buildings and VZ gets the strongest signal. Data usage has grown dramatically and the spectrum availability in your market can make a difference. VZ, AT&T, and others have purchased AWS-3 Band 66 spectrum which they are brining on-line but the iPhone 7 and Galaxy 7 chips don't support it. It is 10 AM ET and I just ran a Speedtest in Upper West Side Manhattan and have 41 Mbits/sec down and 6.5 up on iPhone 7+. On iPhones, install the VZ App, install the widget, get the Omnistat app and that should help with knowing your data usage.