LEAKED: VERIZON LAUNCHING TIERED DATA

We reported about a month ago that Verizon was going to introduce tiered data plans for their 3G smartphones.  Those plans are set to launch on October 28th.  There will be two tiers with the lower tier costing $15 for 150MB/month and 0.10/MB overage charge.  The second tier is Verizon's standard unlimited plan for $29.99.  For those people that don't use a lot of data with their smartphones this may be a good thing.

Other data plans include tablets and the MiFi and FiveSpot customers.  For tablets, Verizon is offering:

• $20/1GB
• $35/3GB
• $50/5GB
• $80/10GB
• Overage will be $10/1GB

The MiFi and FiveSpot plans include:

• $50/5GB
• $80/8GB

The new smartphone data tiers only include 3G at this time, but it is expected Verizon will have different tiers for their 4G network once they get that up and running by years end. [Gizmodo]