Now Verizon Lowers Its Monthly Data Offering

Verizon Wireless quietly added one more option to its Share Everything phone plans. Verizon simplified its smartphone plans last year to 14 different options — all have unlimited voice and text; you select the monthly allotment of data starting from 1 GB, which costs $80 a month including a smartphone. Verizon added a lower-tier, a 500-megabyte data plan that is $10 cheaper with a smartphone. The move comes only days after AT&T introduced a 300 MB option that costs half as much as its 1 GB monthly data allotment.