Report: Verizon to Offer Unlimited iPhone Plans

From DailyTech: The Wall Street Journal reports that, unlike AT&T, Verizon is confident that it will offer unlimited data for iPhones when it begins carrying the device later this month.

An unnamed source told WSJ that the nation's largest carrier believes it will have no trouble supporting unlimited data for iPhone users, and could use that as a way to lure customers from AT&T who are unhappy with data caps and network performance.

But Verizon's assertion could be seriously put to the test if the carrier must bear a load of more than 13 million new iPhone users in 2011 -- a number John Hodulik, a UBS Securities analyst, predicts.

But Verizon executives are quick to point out that its network currently handles heavy laptop and Android data traffic without much stress. "Whether they are iPhones or Droids, they are smartphones," Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told WSJ. "Regardless of the mix, we are prepared to carry more data."

And the recent launch of Verizon's LTE-based 4G network should also help to offload some of the stress on its 3G network. "We added enormous capacity to the network in one fell swoop," Verizon CTO Anthony Melone told WSJ. "It is there waiting for us to grow into it. That will help me tremendously with my 3G network."

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