Timeless wireless?

Verizon followed by AT&T and T-Mobile announce a $ 99.99 "unlimited" wireless plan

Today with AT&T, $ 39.99 a month buys you 450 minutes a month for use weekdays 6 am to 9 pm.  Nights and weekends are free. For $ 5.99 a month you can stretch the nights to start at 7 pm and end 7 am, so potentially another 3,600 minutes a month. Mobile to Mobile calls within AT&T network are free. You can rollover unused minutes for up to 12 months. For most folks, that's more than enough. So the "unlimited" plan seems overpriced other than for a few heavy users. And Verizon also moved to meter data usage. AT&T for now is sticking with unlimited data access, though is is said to monitor excessive usage.

Not exactly a "price war", though as Larry Dignan indicates it may be the start of one. In some areas, MetroPCS offers an unlimited plan for $ 35 a month. For folks who do not roam much outside their home area that plan or others from Sprint are better.

As I have written before, with other economic worries not sure people can sustain their mobile device as the likely 3rd most expensive purchase after their home and car. Verizon and AT&T will have to do better in many parts of their plans.