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Verizon Drops Many Data Plan Prices by $10 Per Month
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Wow never seen so much complaining when a company DROPPED their price. They could have gone up $10 a month. They just dropped it $10 already a few months ago and now done it again. I will gladly take the $20 a month discount. Plus they gave away 1GB free for 2 yrs with each new iPhone 6. Would I like $50, $80? Sure but good grief people. If it were $5 then that's better than going up $5. Gas goes down $.25 and folks are ecstatic. But cellular providers drop $10 and folks are grumping about it. LOL
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Compare that to gas prices or prices of various other goods and services that differ throughout the world.
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Agreed. Too bad the prices of 10 GB and up (I guess aside from 20 GB) are increasing though, but that's the nature of promotions.
Changed the plan today. very happy about it. Since I started with my 2GB plan over a year ago, my original bill was $107.70, then Verizon dropped the 2GB plan by 10$ so my plan went down to $97.79. Now, my bill will drop again by another $10+ while still keeping the same data allowance 
Not the point though ....
The grumpiness is due to the fact that many of us have been irritated for many YEARS at Verizon's high prices. Even with this $10/month price cut, plus an earlier price cut, they're not yet in the range of "attractive/competitive pricing". That's pretty sad.....
I get that Verizon has the best data coverage in the U.S. of all of the providers. But even so, you can pull up their coverage map and see a lot of "white spaces" where they don't yet have coverage. In 2015, it seems like the "#1 carrier" would manage to get you a signal ANYWHERE you went in the U.S. - short of being down in a mine shaft or something.
And their customer service? Some people love it, but I know just as many people who will never use Verizon again after some horrible experiences. So I'm not convinced that's really worth paying them hundreds of dollars a year extra for either. (How often do you interact with customer service anyway?)
The grumpiness is due to the fact that many of us have been irritated for many YEARS at Verizon's high prices. Even with this $10/month price cut, plus an earlier price cut, they're not yet in the range of "attractive/competitive pricing". That's pretty sad.....
I get that Verizon has the best data coverage in the U.S. of all of the providers. But even so, you can pull up their coverage map and see a lot of "white spaces" where they don't yet have coverage. In 2015, it seems like the "#1 carrier" would manage to get you a signal ANYWHERE you went in the U.S. - short of being down in a mine shaft or something.
And their customer service? Some people love it, but I know just as many people who will never use Verizon again after some horrible experiences. So I'm not convinced that's really worth paying them hundreds of dollars a year extra for either. (How often do you interact with customer service anyway?)
OK but most have other choices. If you want the best it may cost you a little more. I had sprint for about 2 days back several years ago and promptly went back to Alltel/Verizon when I found myself roaming in the middle of a major city. My son tried StraightTalk (on sprint I think it was) a year or so ago and could never get coverage most places he went and had to have it for work. No issue when he went back to Verizon. He said may as well not pay the $45 if he can never get service anywhere. Have a few friends on ATT and again their service is sketchy. So again you CAN get cheaper service but it is really worth it? And are you really getting a better deal? Maybe but maybe not. So when the provider that DOES work well drops their price just for the hell of it I appreciate taking it!
It's incredible the prices you pay in the US for mobile plans.
I have unlimited data, texts and 5,000 minutes for £30 per month ($45). That's including the phone price.
Without it I would get the same deal for £15/$22.50.
I have unlimited data, texts and 5,000 minutes for £30 per month ($45). That's including the phone price.
Without it I would get the same deal for £15/$22.50.
While the prices can be better and should really be better, they do seem to be "in the range" when compared to companies like it, namely AT&T (as T-Mobile and Sprint, while being larger carriers are still not in the same range that Verizon and AT&T are in enough aspects). Again, that's not to say that Verizon's (and AT&T's) prices couldn't or shouldn't be better. The up side to some degree is that at least they've finally started doing something about it over the past year or two, when they haven't been doing much in that respect for years prior to that.
As for customer service, take any large company and you'll have enough customers who will have problems with the service and customer care, no matter how many others might not. Nothing really new or unique about it.
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Some incredible prices for gas and various other services/goods that exist in Europe in comparison.
Glad to see pricing coming down, but doesn't really do anything for me. I'm right around $92/month with one of their legacy Nationwide Talk & Text plans of 450 minutes ($40 'access' fee), unlimited messaging (for $20) and 5 GB of data ($50). Because of how they apply employer discounts with the new MORE Everything plans, if I switched to one with only 4GB of data, it still comes out a few bucks more than what I currently pay. On my legacy plan, the employee discount of 23% yields a discount of $24 and change, while the way they apply them to the MORE plans I only get about $13 off. Seems that the employer discounts on the older plans apply to the total cost, where they only appear to apply to the data portion of the new plans.
But with the MORE plan unlimited text is included, so your cost for 6 GB would be about where you're at now: $53.90 ($70 - 23%), then $40 access fee brings you to $93.90 (plus tax, but you didn't include that above). That's $2 more for an extra GB, but you get unlimited minutes (if that matters).
Also, at the 6 GB threshold you'd qualify for EDGE discount of $25 on the $40 line access fee, but you'd have to switch to EDGE.
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I'm on the 10GB plan as well. I switched to it because of the promotion. I had thought I'd go out and change my plan to one of these newly priced ones, but I think I'll stay where I am. I think a 4GB plan was $60. I think I'll stick with paying $80 and getting another 6GB.
That is assuming we are grandfathered into the 10GB for $80 plan. This wasn't a limited time thing and the prices would get jacked up by $20 a couple months later??
The promo was for a limited time, but once you have the plan you are grandfathered and can keep it unless you decide to change to a different one (and would only be able to pick from what they are offering at that time) or something like that.
I'm on that 10 GB for $80/month as well. I was considering changing to 15 GB for $100/month last night before the promotion ended, but figured that 10 GB should be alright (given the $20/month savings).
It's worse than that. Because of employer discounts on the data portions of the plan and how these discounts apply to the various options, these are the relative prices on plans I'm offered:
1GB/mo = $30
2GB/mo = $32
3GB/mo = $40
... add this to the access prices for my devices which aren't discounted.
I have an iPhone and 3 iPads connected making my total bill:
1GB/mo = $100
2GB/mo = $102
3GB/mo = $110
So for an extra $2/mo, I get double the data allowance at the low end.
I like it, sounds like your needs are higher than the rest. Like I somehow don't need my service to work so I can just live with it. Just saying thats how you sound.
Except that's not what I was saying. Simply saying that there are enough people out there that find some issues with it as far as let's say another carrier that has worked better for them or works better for them. Sure there are many for whom T-Mobile works well, but there are many for whom it doesn't.
It's not to say it's some huge issue, but it's noticeable enough that there are more people who experience less coverage issues with the larger providers like AT&T and Verizon, for example, compared to T-Mobile (or Sprint).
Basically all that is to say it's not really just down to "this carrier is cheaper so everyone would be a fool for not being on it".
Oh, here's another Verizon tip to share. I really needed to upgrade early when my iPhone 5 died a few days after the 6 was released.
Long story short, they upgraded my iPad line and sent me a 6, now my line is out of contract and I'm paying $15/month for it as opposed to $40 under a contract. My iPad line is still just $10 a month and we had no intention of canceling it.
You could look at it as saving a net of$15/month, but like I said, $10/month is cheap, we had no intention of canceling the iPad line. So I saved $$450 on the phone by signing a contract and now another $600 (assuming I keep the phone for 24 months, 24 x $25/month savings, not including tax, even more savings). Total cost on the phone -$270.00 (our tax is nearly 10%).
Thanks Verizon!
Long story short, they upgraded my iPad line and sent me a 6, now my line is out of contract and I'm paying $15/month for it as opposed to $40 under a contract. My iPad line is still just $10 a month and we had no intention of canceling it.
You could look at it as saving a net of$15/month, but like I said, $10/month is cheap, we had no intention of canceling the iPad line. So I saved $$450 on the phone by signing a contract and now another $600 (assuming I keep the phone for 24 months, 24 x $25/month savings, not including tax, even more savings). Total cost on the phone -$270.00 (our tax is nearly 10%).
Thanks Verizon!
No love for iPad'ers.
If they went to 2GB/mo for $20 I'd probably keep the plan going, but at 1GB/mo I keep turning it off when it expires/runs out of data and I know I'm not going to be needing it for a while.
If they went to 2GB/mo for $20 I'd probably keep the plan going, but at 1GB/mo I keep turning it off when it expires/runs out of data and I know I'm not going to be needing it for a while.
Wrong. I'm using the actual numbers. For 4GB of data on the MORE plan, I come out a few bucks MORE than where I currently am because of how employer discounts are applied to the MORE plans. If I go to the 6GB MORE Everything plan, it's an additional $10 or so over what I currently pay for 5GB (which I never use up). I'm using the plan comparison tool, which shows me exact pricing before taxes and surcharges...and the $92 price I said I currently pay is AFTER taxes and surcharges. My current plan before taxes is $85 and change. The 4GB MORE plan is right at $87. The 6GB MORE plan comes to $94 and change. So like I was saying, I could pay a couple bucks more to get 1GB LESS on one of the current plans, or I could pay almost $10 more for an extra 1GB that I wouldn't use.
I don't personally see any benefit of going to an EDGE plan for myself, either. I'm still under contract, but when I am eligible for an upgrade I won't have difficulty coming up with $200-300 for a new subsidized phone. $15 discount per month when I'm adding another ~$32/month to pay for the phone on EDGE nets me a $17/month bill increase. What I see here is pay either $300 up front for a subsidized 32GB iPhone 6, or pay $306 over 18 months to be eligible for an upgrade on EDGE. You save 6 months of upgrade waiting that way, but my bill also went up $17 a month. I suppose the math may work for some people, but I'm just not seeing it.
So the 15GB/$100 plan we are currently signed up for no longer exists, to go up to the next tier would now be 16GB/$130 or 20GB for $140. Not seeing the "$10 per month" price drop...