I edited my post with a screen shot, those are plans that I am available to change to, so they are still available for me to choose.
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Verizon Drops Many Data Plan Prices by $10 Per Month
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Correct me if I am wrong but from what I can tell, Verizon does not charge any interest or premium for phones purchased through EDGE. For instance, 64GB iPhone 6 under EDGE costs $31.24 for 24 months, or $749.76 total. Purchasing the phone outright costs $749.99, which does not qualify for $15-25/month EDGE discount.
I suppose EDGE is designed to lock customers into Verizon so one may argue that's what's in it for Verizon. But since a customer can pay the remaining balance and switch to other carriers at anytime, I am not sure how strong that argument holds.
If you buy they phone outright and thus you are not on contract or on an EDGE agreement you are basically on a month-to-month agreement and can get a month-to-month discount for such a line which is basically the same as the EDGE discount as far as how much it is. (Although it might take a call to Verizon to get that discount applied as it's not something that's just simply available automatically or online it seems, at least as far as I can recall, which is kind of unfortunate and different in that way from AT&T it would seem.)
Ahhh. Maybe I should have thought about how much I pay. I was on a 4GB Share Everything, but then I DID switch to a 10GB Share Everything for $80 a month when they had the promotion. Sorry!
I just talked to Verizon CSR (the website doesn't let me get the pricing info unless I have Verizon's SIM card already).
And I stand corrected. I can get the same EDGE discount if I bring my own phones.
There has been a promotion on the 10 GB (and 15 GB) plans over the last couple of months. Seems like that promotion is ending today and a new one with cheaper lower data plans is starting tomorrow.
Are you talking 8-16 GB for a family plan? Because that much data sounds completely crazy for a single user. I have a 3 GB plan and rarely exceed that even when playing a *lot* of Ingress.
Because that's what AT&T does. BYOD is $15/mo under Mobile Share Value Plan. Buy a used phone on CL or a deal on Amazon, bring it in, add to your account for $15/mo, no activation fee either.
Buy a phone on AT&T NEXT (similar to Verizon Edge) and it's also reduced to $15/mo instead of $40.
Competition is the reason.
I've been really happen with Verizon. Since I upgraded my iPhone in September they gave me a free 1GB, then they doubled my regular 3GB plan to 6GB for a total of 7GB per month for $60. Then they dropped my bill either $10 or $15/mo since my wife isn't under contract any more (they called me to ask if they could lower my bill), then when I called them recently to turn off LTE data on my wife's Mini 2, they gave us free LTE data on the iPad for the next year. I'm nothing but happy with them. They've always been a little pricier, but their customer service kicks the crap out of AT&T (only other carrier I've ever had) and their coverage is excellent. You also get free tethering, but that's mostly because they were forced after buying that huge block (C?) of spectrum from the government back in the day to deploy their LTE.
1gb of SHARED data for $30
Think about that for a second. That's like one movie - between two devices, for $30.
I'm so glad I moved from Verizon to T-Mobile.
Think about that for a second. That's like one movie - between two devices, for $30.
I'm so glad I moved from Verizon to T-Mobile.
People on 1GB plans don't waste their data on watching movies. They're the "only email and browsing" users.
I was actually hoping that 3GB plan would be on part with ATT cost wise, but I guess it is still $10 more expensive.
Were currently at $70/8GB month shared data (they recently gave us a free upgrade, same price, but double the data).
Were also not on a contract, so $15/device discount. At one point I was going to upgrade to 10GB month, because the plan price was $10 more, but the per device discount wouldve been $10 more _each_ device, resulting in a net additional $10 savings - but it looks like the 10GB plan went up?
Geez, I cant keep up with the constant plan gyrations ...
Were also not on a contract, so $15/device discount. At one point I was going to upgrade to 10GB month, because the plan price was $10 more, but the per device discount wouldve been $10 more _each_ device, resulting in a net additional $10 savings - but it looks like the 10GB plan went up?
Geez, I cant keep up with the constant plan gyrations ...
Well, free is never going to happen unless the US government starts allow EBT to be used to pay for your cell service, otherwise, the carriers aren't in the business of giving things for free. You're paying for a service, not just the data. It's a convenience you're paying for.
At the end of the day, though, I agree that $30 for 1GB is no value.
Doubt it. Most folks use one phone. I have two phones and two tablets and I rarely break 6gb. Maybe if you have a family with two teenagers in it then you get into the 10 to 12gb range. But that is a lot of data. I think only streaming music will get you into that type of usage levels. Streaming video as well would, but you are most likely to do that at home when on wifi. So no issue there.
We only use half of our shared 1 gb data (2 phones). We do not allow cellular on any data hog apps. Our Verizon bills are very reasonable.
10 GB (and 15 GB) are still cheaper today I believe it's tomorow that the promos will be changing and the new one that is being discussed in this thread will be going into effect. So you should still have a few hours to make that change if you want to.
