Verizon Launches New 'Customizable' Smartphone Plans That Charge $10 Per Perk

[AF_APPLETALK]

MVNO's are great when trying to save a buck. But to be blunt you become a second class citizen when you go MVNO. Your traffic takes a back seat when volume is high, you get lower tier access to customer support, etc.

Switching from Verizon unlimited to visible actually improved my service. I was getting throttled extremely hard on Verizon for some reason (I WFH and obviously have my phone on WIFI for probably 18 hours out of the day). Switched to visible, and all the sudden places where I couldn't load a webpage started working.

 

[michaelscarn]

I'm a T-Mobile customer, while you're just a lowly, fill in the blank, customer. Got it...

Crazy, right? 😂

But these people do exist, and I suspect that's one of the reasons behind the useless Verizon credit card (which this person got immediately after it was announced, of course)

I don't want to understand the mentality of someone whose phone carrier has become part of their identity. Like for real, what's wrong with you??

 

[FattiesGoneWild]

Crazy, right? 😂

But these people do exist, and I suspect that's one of the reasons behind the useless Verizon credit card (which this person got immediately after it was announced, of course)

I don't want to understand the mentality of someone whose phone carrier has become part of their identity. Like for real, what's wrong with you??

😆 Verizon fine dining while T-Mobile is McDonald’s.

 

[bobenhaus]

Cricket Wireless is the best for the Price. no Complaints here.

 

[anselpela]

but then they eventually increase the price of each and you're now spending more than you ever have.

This is the only thing that anyone needs to know about this. It is the oldest trick in the book, and has ruined streaming.

 

[spinedoc77]

Hmm I don't know how this will work.

Current
3x lines @ $45, 1x line @ $35, 2x watches @ $5 each = $180

Assuming I still get the same multi phone discount:
3x lines @ $45, 1x line @ $35, 2x watches @ $10 each (assuming I don't get the plan perks of 50% off), 2x disney/hulu @$10, 1x Apple arcade $10, 1x google play $10 = $230 ?!?!

Shouldn't the bare plans, with no addons, go down in price to make this cost effective, or at least make it break even with the old plans? What am I missing here? I'd have switched to T-mobile a long time ago if their service wasn't so awful in NJ. No ATT at my house either so I'm stuck with Verizon.

Edit: so new plans for 4 lines would be $45 unlimited plus and $30 unlimited welcome. What this does is free me from having to have a Play More/Do More for the perks, now I can simply choose $45 for my wife and my lines, and $30 for the kids lines and just add disney/hulu as it's the only perk I care about. The unlimited plus keeps the 50% connected device discount. So $170 versus $180, nothing great but it's better than paying more.

 

[burgman]

I'm living/working in the Philly area and I can attest to this. Verizon used to be THE company with coverage in the Philly metro area. Most of the time I can't make a decent phone call from my second story office that's within view of the major Interstate carrying auto traffic from DC-NYC. And data? Forget it. Terrible, just terrible. I'm really NOT happy with Verizon. It's been a long time, but I'm considering T-Mobile or Firstnet through AT&T. A lot of people I work with have Firstnet and seem to have had a good experience with it. I currently get my emergency connectivity for phone calls through GETS/WPS



MVNO's are great when trying to save a buck. But to be blunt you become a second class citizen when you go MVNO. Your traffic takes a back seat when volume is high, you get lower tier access to customer support, etc.

Unfortunately I've required interacting with Verizon postpaid customer service lately. It's defiantly a crap shoot if you will get US based or not, or someone who knows anything about the issue you called about.

 

[LoggerMN]

I had the same experience w Visible. Ping times made it unusable, unfortunately.

That must be very locale dependent. I use Visible+, $35/mo, I frequently tether to it from my computer for remote work over VNC, as XFinity is so unreliable.

That said, when I’m at the office, I have 1 bar at best, and have to make calls from WI-FI. But it works very well for my use case.

 

[burgman]

Crazy, right? 😂

But these people do exist, and I suspect that's one of the reasons behind the useless Verizon credit card (which this person got immediately after it was announced, of course)

I don't want to understand the mentality of someone whose phone carrier has become part of their identity. Like for real, what's wrong with you??

Some people get that tingle down their leg cheering for a multinational companies, I agree WTF. Tmobile bragged about their social media little monesters in the Legere years.😊

 

[FoxyKaye]

The only "perk" I want from any US cellular provider is not getting completely screwed when I travel internationally, which then drives me to local SIM cards and all the fun and games that engenders.

 

[compwiz1202]

Unfortunately I've required interacting with Verizon postpaid customer service lately. It's defiantly a crap shoot if you will get US based or not, or someone who knows anything about the issue you called about.

I usually know more but just don't have the systems to fix it.

 

[crisss1205]

No, I believe it’s going through the end of this year. Our water meters are read by a 3rd party and just this month we switched from 3G to 5G antennas. All the previous months have been 3G.

Nope. I can assure you that it has been shut down already as of December 31st. Also most IoT will be 4G not 5G.

 

[mrow]

It’s wild what you all pay for phone plans in the US. I currently pay 20 Euro 😅

Only fools pay these prices. You can get unlimited 5G from Verizon’s prepaid service called Visible for $25 a month, and it includes unlimited hotspot (though capped at 5Mbps).

 

[compwiz1202]

I was looking at this on my phone this morning, and when I tried to switch from Get More to Unlimited Welcome, it said I would lose a discount, but didn't say which. Do you not get the AP discount. I didn't get a warning trying to switch the other three from Starter to Welcome. And you need to watch too because it doesn't cancel perks you had, it makes them paid, and you need to manually cancel. I need to check it again tonight on the laptop where it's easier to read and has more content on the screen at once.

 

[Premium1]

Gotta get their plans set up before next launch. Verizon will make everyone sign up or switch to their newest plan to get any phone incentives.

I mean that's a bold strategy for Verizon but seeing as how their last few quarters have been abysmal with subscriber gains/losses, that's not going to help, especially if Tmo and att pull the "everyone gets the same deals when upgrading" in the commercials like they have been doing.

 

[bobcomer]

It will be interesting to see what happens to Verizon’s coverage next year when 3G is permanently switched off… 🤞🏻

They already turned off 3G here, and Verizon has the best 4G coverage by far. 5G, now that's a problem.

I just moved one of my lines from Verizon to Boost, they have 5G (not the mmwave, but it's still faster than 4G) and is a heck of a lot cheaper. $25 a month unlimited. (but not unlimited at the fastest speeds)

Verizon, of course, messed up my account, they made the watch the primary number to log in and it can't receive texts for 2factor auth from it's number since it's number shared with my other number. They are such a pain sometimes.

 

[Momof2.1107]

Only fools pay these prices. You can get unlimited 5G from Verizon’s prepaid service called Visible for $25 a month, and it includes unlimited hotspot (though capped at 5Mbps).

I already tried Visible and the service was horrible since post paid is prioritized over Visible. Also the hotspot was slow so I went to Verizon’s postpaid and have had zero complaints. I have service where I didn’t with Visible.

 

[mrow]

I already tried Visible and the service was horrible since post paid is prioritized over Visible. Also the hotspot was slow so I went to Verizon’s postpaid and have had zero complaints. I have service where I didn’t with Visible.

That’s the old Visible. Verizon completely revamped it a few months ago. It now runs on the same network and servers as Verizon’s main network, not the ‘cloud’ like the old Visible network. The better of the two plans they now offer, for $35 a month, offers 50GB of priority data on 5G, the same priority as post-paid plans. No joke. You should check them out again.

 

[cardfan]

From the “play more” or “do more” you lose 50gb of premium 5g before throttling. With new ones there’s no 50gb listed.

Still I took wife’s line and added apple one family for 17.50 and canceled it on phone that was 32 a month or so.

Otherwise the old plans look better.

 

[Momof2.1107]

That’s the old Visible. Verizon completely revamped it a few months ago. It now runs on the same network and servers as Verizon’s main network, not the ‘cloud’ like the old Visible network. The better of the two plans they now offer, for $35 a month, offers 50GB of priority data on 5G, the same priority as post-paid plans. No joke. You should check them out again.

I think I’m going to stick with Verizon. The perks I get outweighs the cheaper cost of Visible. My family and I use the perks which has saved us money in the long run.