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What does 250MB (250 megabytes) get me?

Verizon's new 250MB (250 megabyte) plan is $39.99/month and targets customers with minimal data usage per month. The plan requires a 1 or 2-year contract and only includes 250MB of total usage per month and has been available since May, 2009.

Some folks think that this plan would work for them since they consider themselves 'average' and all they do is 'routine' email and surf websites.

To help answer the question, here are some examples of what typical 'downloads' eat up in bandwidth:

According to nielsen-netratings.com, the average websurfer in the U.S. loads 1,500+ web pages per month. Many popular webpages are so loaded with files that each one accounts for 100-200KB of data downloaded. This means that on average, a typical user will download over 20MB of data just doing 'routine' web surfing.

Now let's elaborate on email, because you can't only count the ones you want to receive. Spam that makes it to your computer and ends up in your junk folder or spam filter has still taken up bandwidth that Verizon counts toward your quota. If you receive a lot of spam (many people receive 20-50 a day!) you're paying for bandwidth you don't even want!

We would be remiss to forget about major software updates for your computer. They don't happen daily, could easily be over 250MB all by themselves, and have been known to happen several times a month. If you use Verizon's 250mb plan to do your software updates, you are very likely to exceed the limit.

Its obvious that the activities which consume the most bandwidth involve music and video downloads. If you plan on downloading music or videos, you really should not consider the 250mb plan as a viable option.

It should be pretty clear by now: for the majority of people, its all too easy to reach the 250mb plan's limit in one month.

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