My guess is convenience. Besides battery life, I've had trouble with keeping my hotspot connected when I tether my iPhone to my iPad or vise versa.
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Verizon Introduces 'Share Everything' Service Plan for Up to Ten Devices
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My guess is convenience. Besides battery life, I've had trouble with keeping my hotspot connected when I tether my iPhone to my iPad or vise versa.
Being that I'm on a individual plan and literally use at most 20 minutes a month, and have the minimal text plan since the majority of my friends have iPhones, this is pointless for me to get. I'm still on board to jump ship from VZW to Virgin Mobile once the iPhone is released on their network on June 29th.
How will adding your daughters iPhone be $10? it's 40 per device across the plan. I.E. 4 iPhones = 4x40 or 160.00 - Now add on your other fees/charges/ tariffs, taxes, blah blah.
Good you got your unlimited now. I wish I could do that. I "want" to be able to watch streaming movies on my phone......one day.......
Currently pay $238 per month
With the new plan, two others would probably get smartphones so:
$160+$80 (6GB to share)=$240.
Included in that is the hotspot feature.
Works for me, but I can see how others are getting screwed.
- 1400 nationwide share plan (last month we used 27 minutes)
- Unlimited text
- 2 iPhone's ($60 per month in data)
- 3 dumb phones ($29.97 per month in data)
With the new plan, two others would probably get smartphones so:
$160+$80 (6GB to share)=$240.
Included in that is the hotspot feature.
Works for me, but I can see how others are getting screwed.
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This type of plan could be good for people with cellular radio'd tablets.
We have a couple of tablets with 3G/4G capability that we just use over home WiFi right now because we don't want to pay for $15-$30 each tablet data plans.
Also, neither my daughter nor my wife have smartphones, so they couldn't tether the tablets that way.
However, with this plan I could enable cellular on those tablets for $10 each. They could take them to the nearby lake beach for use while sunning.
We have a couple of tablets with 3G/4G capability that we just use over home WiFi right now because we don't want to pay for $15-$30 each tablet data plans.
Also, neither my daughter nor my wife have smartphones, so they couldn't tether the tablets that way.
However, with this plan I could enable cellular on those tablets for $10 each. They could take them to the nearby lake beach for use while sunning.
Isn't this for "family plans only"? Or are they getting rid of single line plans?
From the looks of this, I will be saving money...a LOT of money....per month. This seems like a fair deal for 2 - 3 users that don't need crazy amounts of data. If they force single line users into these plans, that's when it becomes absurd. Let me indulge:
Current Family Plan w/ 2 lines
1400 minutes / Unlimited Text Family Plan = $120
Unlimited Data = $30 x 2 = $60
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Total = $180
Future Plan w/ 2 lines
Unlimited Minutes / Texts = $80 ($40 per smartphone)
4GB of Data = $70 (2GB per user)
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Total = $150
So.....I'd be saving $30 total, but losing my unlimited data. That seems like a fair trade off for most people (except power users). Everyone is so up in arms about this, but I was happy when I saw this. Am I missing something? Please let me know if I'm "not reading the fine print". This does not include taxes or other charges.
2gb/person may seem enough now, but how about 1, 2 or 5 years down the road? Remember not so long ago we were still using dial up Internet and look where we are now. Ideally Verizon wants everyone to get off the unlimited plan.
The plan really hurts iPhone "power users" and feature phone users. A feature phone is $30 a month in fees, but a smartphone is $40 in fees. A feature phone doesn't benefit from the data like a smartphone.
I pay $250 a month for:
700 mins (Used 345 on avg)
Unlimited Text
iPhone with Unlimited data.
iPhone with Unlimited data.
iPhone with Unlimited data.
iPhone with 2GB of Data.
Old Smatphone with 200mb of data.
Under this CON of a new plan our cost would go up to:
$290 and that would be for a limited 8 GB for 5 phones. And dont forget tax of that!!
I'm gonna look for new service. Over $3600 a year for 5 of any kinda phone is just stupid.
700 mins (Used 345 on avg)
Unlimited Text
iPhone with Unlimited data.
iPhone with Unlimited data.
iPhone with Unlimited data.
iPhone with 2GB of Data.
Old Smatphone with 200mb of data.
Under this CON of a new plan our cost would go up to:
$290 and that would be for a limited 8 GB for 5 phones. And dont forget tax of that!!
I'm gonna look for new service. Over $3600 a year for 5 of any kinda phone is just stupid.
Right, but don't these plans make it cheaper for a family to have smartphones? Maybe it only benefits me because I don't need much data. I use 2GB, mom uses less than 500MB and I don't anticipate the others using much either.
i would LOVE to stream moves to my 4g lte phone, the problem is 4g in buffalo sucks unless youre sitting under an lte tower. which are conveniently located only by verizon stores...that is when the towers are working. 4g went out across the country for over an hour as i was switching phones.
you should lower your voice plan, and just save money while you have the time, fwiw on that limited intel.
EXACTLY! With tethering part of the deal it makes zero sense to ever purchase a 3G/4G tablet again. Why pay $130 upfront and $10 per month to access data you already have access to as part of your share plan?
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Because we'll be deleting her $30 dumb phone and REPLACING it with a $40 smartphone, thus and additional $10/month. Basic math my friend, basic math.
It makes it silly to ever use a feature phone. $30 a month for a dumb phone that has an atrocious browser interface? Ridiculous. Overall, these plans make more sense, but I suppose we (maybe foolishly) didn't think the price on becoming part of this plan would be so out of this world.
EXACTLY! With tethering part of the deal it makes zero sense to ever purchase a 3G/4G tablet again. Why pay $130 upfront and $10 per month to access data you already have access to as part of your share plan?
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Because we'll be deleting her $30 dumb phone and REPLACING it with a $40 smartphone, thus and additional $10/month. Basic math my friend, basic math.
my bad, did not take "already" into account. I was a math major
I have something else very interesting to say about this service plan, and I shall 'share' this inspiring and informative message with anyone who wants to read it at no cost whatsoever! That's right, completely free of charge! What a deal, huh?
However, to access my amazingly insightful comment you will have to send me $40 (if you are over the age of 35), or $30 (if you like mushrooms in your food), or $10 (if your toothbrush is either blue or green). 'cos like, it makes a big difference to me, those things, honest.
So what if you're over 35, love mushrooms, and your toothbrush is blue?
(yes, I'm being completely cheeky)
Anybody know offhand if you could still add a dumbphone line (no data) for $9.95, just as many of us do on regular family plans?
Everything' Service Plan for Up to Ten Devices
No after the 28th you would pay $30 because you would be on the unlimited voice and text plan.
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It's rank, it stinks.
I just upgrade my phones and will upgrade my daughter before the 28th.
From now on I'll buy devices at full retail our off eBay.
I like unlimited data.
No after the 28th you would pay $30 because you would be on the unlimited voice and text plan.
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It's rank, it stinks.
I just upgrade my phones and will upgrade my daughter before the 28th.
From now on I'll buy devices at full retail our off eBay.
I like unlimited data.
I'm clearly in the minority here but I would save a good chunk of money. I have 4 iphones on my plan and an iPad with a different carrier. If I combined them all I am looking at a savings of almost $100 per month. Unlike most people on MR, I use a lot of minutes but very little data.
Is Unlimited worth nothing?
one thing I see in may of your stories is that your going from a unlimited plan to a caped plan and you have not allotted a cost to this. Do you think unlimited is worth nothing?
one thing I see in may of your stories is that your going from a unlimited plan to a caped plan and you have not allotted a cost to this. Do you think unlimited is worth nothing?
Can anyone confirm if corporate discounts will be honored?
I just got off the phone with VZW, and the rep said, "We just found out about this three hours ago." So, she wasn't up to speed. In fact, when I talked about the overage cost on data, she didn't know that they would add data in the case of overages at the cost of $10/1 GB. She "researched" it and confirmed that I was correct.
When I asked her whether we would be able to keep the 18% discount that we get because of my wife's job, she said that employer discounts don't currently apply to the unlimited talk plan so while she wasn't 100% sure about the applicability to the "Share Everything" plan, she didn't think employer discounts would apply to the new "Share Everything" plan since it's unlimited talk.
Can anyone confirm/deny this based on your experience/conversations with VZW? If we lose our 18% discount, that would be a bummer, but based on our data usage, it still looks like we'll save about $15 to $20 a month on the "Share Everything" plan even without the discount.
I just got off the phone with VZW, and the rep said, "We just found out about this three hours ago." So, she wasn't up to speed. In fact, when I talked about the overage cost on data, she didn't know that they would add data in the case of overages at the cost of $10/1 GB. She "researched" it and confirmed that I was correct.
When I asked her whether we would be able to keep the 18% discount that we get because of my wife's job, she said that employer discounts don't currently apply to the unlimited talk plan so while she wasn't 100% sure about the applicability to the "Share Everything" plan, she didn't think employer discounts would apply to the new "Share Everything" plan since it's unlimited talk.
Can anyone confirm/deny this based on your experience/conversations with VZW? If we lose our 18% discount, that would be a bummer, but based on our data usage, it still looks like we'll save about $15 to $20 a month on the "Share Everything" plan even without the discount.
I agree. It isn't about intelligence, it is about your brain rejecting BS.
Same thing with the tax code.
I guess the "net net" is they want to kill off the $10 dumb pones.
I was told the discount would work definitely for the first line but the VZW person I spoke to was going to check on the other lines and data for me and call me back. I still haven't heard a word back.
I saw a report earlier (can't remember where) that the discount would be applied to EACH line not just primary, but no discount on data. I don't expect concrete answers until this rolls out in a couple of weeks. But killing the discounts (ours being 20%) will surely make the math even less favorable.