Show of hands – how many of you thought that your use of the internet hotspot you were able to activate on your HTC ThunderBolt, DROID Charge, and LG Revolution was a limited time offer? Indeed this offer was supposed to be finished quite soon, (tomorrow, in fact), but has instead been pushed out until July 6th, 2011. What happens then, you might ask? You’ll have to start paying for that service you hold so dear. The note we’ve been passed by Verizon states that though a $20/GB plan had been in place, either a new offer will be sent or the Mobile Hotspot will be de-activated altogether. Harsh!
As you may already know, your humble narrator has been using the hotspot on the ThunderBolt for some time now, it having gotten him out of more than a couple jams where connections were smashing all alternate means of connecting. Have a look at the HTC ThunderBolt Three-Month Review for all the juicy details. Next let’s have a look at the message from Verizon:
Verizon Wireless has extended the Limited Time promotion for Mobile Hotspot and Mobile Broadband Connect on 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) Smartphones, ThunderBolt by HTC, DROID Charge by Samsung, and Revolution by LG. The following are the Unlimited Hotspot promotion details.
Limited Time promotion available through 7/6/2011 which allows customers unlimited 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot and Mobile Broadband Connect usage until July 6, 2011 with the purchase of a ThunderBolt by HTC, a DROID Charge by Samsung, or a Revolution by LG, with a voice plan and a data package $29.99 or higher.
The $20/GB (Gigabyte) plan will not be available on 4G LTE Smartphones. On July 6, 2011 a software update will remove the Mobile Hotspot offer. A message will be sent to the end user to contact their system administrator to subscribe to Mobile Hotspot.
So keep those hotspots hot! And make sure to note when that update comes through so we know if they’re going to totally de-activate the system or just update to a pay model that’s hereto unknown!
Source: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/15/verizon-is-making-changes-to-plans-on-june-26-family-data-sharing-a-possibility/
Source: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/15/verizon-is-making-changes-to-plans-on-june-26-family-data-sharing-a-possibility/
Nice of Verizon to extend the mobile hot spot, it’s the least they can do! Because you have people like myself who are suffering with the thunderbolts problems! My personal opinion is it should be a free service being that we have to pay $29.99 a month for unlimited data plan. It should be included in our plan! And we still don’t have that upgrade!
Nice of Verizon to extend the mobile hot spot, it’s the least they can do! Because you have people like myself who are suffering with the thunderbolts problems! My personal opinion is it should be a free service being that we have to pay $29.99 a month for unlimited data plan. It should be included in our plan! And we still don’t have that upgrade!
About that 4 g mobile hotspot it works good and what I found out because I work at safeway they give me a discount so I get the hot spot for free so if you like it and know anyone that works there tell them to.hook it up
So now to get a hotspot, I have to get rid of my unlimited data plan which is not available anymore and pay $100 a month for something I was paying $30 a month for. As much I disliked AT&T, I think I’m heading back.