Verizon Home 4G-LTE Broadband: Spendy
Verizon is offering a 4G LTE box for your house to access their network called HomeFusion.
In theory, you might think it’s another way to cut the cable cord but it’s priced like you’re staying at a hotel.
Average downlink data rates range from 5-12Mbps, and the uplink average is 2-5Mbps.
Service costs $60/month for 10 GB of data, $90/month for 20GB, or $120/month for 30 GB, with additional data usage costing $10 per 1GB.
So, unless you live out in sticks and you only currently have dialup or satellite, otherwise – most cable companies are $45-$65 for @250 GB and that’s mostly a soft cap (for most cable companies as long as you are watching Netflix and not downloading movies).
Plus the device costs $199.
A better deal seems to be to simply get a “normal” account with an iPad versus paying for yet another bill on top of all your other devices … unless of course, you have been bypassed via other outlets …
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3 May 2012
5 Comments
Verizon offers LTE in a lot of secondary markets now, but if you live in the sticks you probably don’t have it. Verizon is crushing all other carriers in LTE coverage though.
I am due for a phone upgrade in about a week, looking forward to LTE, especially since I am grandfathered in to an unlimited data plan! I have tried it on other people’s devices, it is wicked fast.
thankfully my fios 35/35 has no caps:)
4G LTE is only available in major markets right now. That means the only places that this box is any good is all the places that also have wired high speed internet. The scary thing is they are marketing this home use device with data caps. Verizon and all the other providers would like nothing more than to cap all of our data at home so they can put the squeeze on us.
Yeah, I concur
Way too much dough
Too pricey…