Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo said in May at the Reuters' Global Technology Summit that its subsidiary, Verizon Wireless viewed eventual shared data in much the same way it did family plans that share minutes for voice calls that began with "individual minutes for individual users."
"I think it's safe to assume that at some point you are going to have mega-plans and people are going to share that mega-plan based on the number of devices within their family," said Shammo. "That's just a logical progression."
But that progression, logical as it may be, seems to be a slow one.
"We are still considering shared data plans as an option but we have nothing to announce in respect to those plans being available to customers," Verizon Wireless spokesman Brenda Raney told us on Wednesday.
While no U.S. carrier is currently offering shared data, wireless analyst Kirk Parsons of J.D. Power expects such plans to appear next year.
"It's a very big deal and would increase the usage of data/smartphone incidence," said Parsons. He said that when shared voice plans were introduced, "Those plan types took off and increased the overall household wireless incidence."
Family plans, like unlimited messaging plans, benefit carriers by stimulating usage and helping to bring a return on infrastructure investment, adds William Ho of Current Analysis.
"Shared smartphone or feature phone adoption allows customers to get their toes into the water without committing to individual data plans that lock each line in for the typical two years," said Ho. "Businesses already have 'pooled' voice and data plans so the concept isn't...
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