Long time lurker - Thanks for all the info and sorry for the long-ish post.
My wife, son, and I are current VZW customers. I have my own account and the wife and son share an account. The wife and I are both upgrade eligible and the son has had his 5S for 10 months. We use at most about 8GB of data per month. We also both get a small discount because of our employer.
The wife and I both plan on getting the 6+ with 64GB. We're not in a huge rush and can wait a bit to get the phones. We also tend to keep our phones for a long time (both using early 4S models).
The VZW site isn't much help when I try to price our options. From what I can see we have a few:
1) Buy the two phones outright for $1700 and get a data plan. I'm not sure how the son's phone would fit in with this approach. I also don't know if I'd be better off buying it from our local Apple Store (can they do employer discounts with VZW?).
2) Get the Edge plan, spread the cost of the phones out over 20 months, and share the data. It looks like there's a discount for getting a data plan of 10GB or more with Edge but the VZW site won't let me set it up with multiple phones. Do we own the phones outright after 20 months? Does the data plan cost go up after 20 months?
3) Get the More Everything plan and pay $800 up front for the two new phones. With the higher monthly data costs I'm not sure how this would work out if we keep our phones for an extended period of time (likely).
4) Blow up the model and go with AT&T. I really don't know much about that one but I'm reading that it may be cheaper, however, there's the son's remaining contract (~14 months) to consider.
Ideas?
My wife, son, and I are current VZW customers. I have my own account and the wife and son share an account. The wife and I are both upgrade eligible and the son has had his 5S for 10 months. We use at most about 8GB of data per month. We also both get a small discount because of our employer.
The wife and I both plan on getting the 6+ with 64GB. We're not in a huge rush and can wait a bit to get the phones. We also tend to keep our phones for a long time (both using early 4S models).
The VZW site isn't much help when I try to price our options. From what I can see we have a few:
1) Buy the two phones outright for $1700 and get a data plan. I'm not sure how the son's phone would fit in with this approach. I also don't know if I'd be better off buying it from our local Apple Store (can they do employer discounts with VZW?).
2) Get the Edge plan, spread the cost of the phones out over 20 months, and share the data. It looks like there's a discount for getting a data plan of 10GB or more with Edge but the VZW site won't let me set it up with multiple phones. Do we own the phones outright after 20 months? Does the data plan cost go up after 20 months?
3) Get the More Everything plan and pay $800 up front for the two new phones. With the higher monthly data costs I'm not sure how this would work out if we keep our phones for an extended period of time (likely).
4) Blow up the model and go with AT&T. I really don't know much about that one but I'm reading that it may be cheaper, however, there's the son's remaining contract (~14 months) to consider.
Ideas?