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Verizon Revamps Plans With More Data, Carryover Data, Unlimited 2G, and Higher Prices
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Honesty when the carriers in the USA were subsidizing cell phones $400 or so PER LINE every 24 months. (Lines 2-5 only cost $9.99). It was a pretty good deal
A typical Verizon phone bill with 1400 minutes unlimited talk and text and true unlimited ($30/line) data for $250-275 or so a month was a pretty good ($250/5 lines) came out to around $50 a line or $60 line. Most also had discount 10-25% which discounted even the $30 data lines (I pay $24 still for true unlimited Verizon LtE data line)
That's the real truth.
So $50-60 a line a month PLUS getting a $400 subsidy every 24 months (worth roughly $18/month).
Now carriers in the USA have gotten rid of the subsidies which really jacked up the true cost of lines 2-5).
A typical Verizon phone bill with 1400 minutes unlimited talk and text and true unlimited ($30/line) data for $250-275 or so a month was a pretty good ($250/5 lines) came out to around $50 a line or $60 line. Most also had discount 10-25% which discounted even the $30 data lines (I pay $24 still for true unlimited Verizon LtE data line)
That's the real truth.
So $50-60 a line a month PLUS getting a $400 subsidy every 24 months (worth roughly $18/month).
Now carriers in the USA have gotten rid of the subsidies which really jacked up the true cost of lines 2-5).
And is the gas or something else that you pay more for loaded with diamonds as well since it costs more for you? Has this thread not addressed all of this sufficiently multiple times already, or people just want to post in threads, but not read them?
AT&T already did. This act by Verizon is the effect of it.
AT&T already had rollover and they increased unlimited grandfather plans by $5, from 5GB/month to 22GB/month, and eliminated $400 upgrade credit.
This is what is upsetting me about the "new plan"...
Here is a screen shot from an old email:
Note:
Now, they announce the The New Verizon Plan. I'm on vacation and notice that I'm reaching my 16GB prematurely, so i go online to switch to the XXL size for the rest of the month.
Surprise!:
I reached out to Verizon and they pretty much told me I'm better off paying the overage charges.
Here is a screen shot from an old email:
Note:
- For Life
- and the fine print: 2GB extra data applies as long as line remains active on The Verizon Plan XL size or larger.
Now, they announce the The New Verizon Plan. I'm on vacation and notice that I'm reaching my 16GB prematurely, so i go online to switch to the XXL size for the rest of the month.
Surprise!:
- The Verizon Plan XXL size is no longer available. I have to choose The New Verizon Plan XXL size.
- I also lose my 4GB of extra data. Since it is impossible to stay on any of the old plans and take advantage of the size switching option that's always been available.
- Next month, when I don't need the XXL size any more, I can return to the XL size of the New plan.
- But now I'm paying $10 more for the exact same 16GB.
I reached out to Verizon and they pretty much told me I'm better off paying the overage charges.
And that's great for you that T-Mobile works where you live. But clearly you've never been to the Midwest. I have Verizon, and my fiancé and several friends all have T-Mobile. Normally where we live outside of Kansas City, we all have decent service. However, as soon as you get anywhere truly rural (i.e. Not Kansas City, Topeka, or Wichita), T-Mobile loses service. I was at a Fourth of July party, and everyone with Verizon had service even during a thunderstorm which everyone with T-Mobile was SOL.
So again, great for you that you have service where you need it. But not everyone lives on the East or West Coast near a major city.
Depends on where in Oklahoma. Having driven through as recent as last year, there were stretches along I-35 where my fiancé did not have service on T-Mobile but I did on Verizon.
i clearly state i have service where i live & travel, i didnt say everywhere has service i actually have 0 when visiting my grandma in the woods of north carolina they only have sprint in her town. Also in my post i did state coverage maps are avail
This is not the complete picture, as it does not reflect the changes to line-access discounts between old and new plans. Verizon's standard per-line access fee is $40 (and that is not changing) but if you own or finance your phone, the discounted line access fee goes up from $15 per line to $20 per line on the new plan.
So in addition to the data plan increase, there is also a $5/month per line increase if you own or finance your phone.
In my case, the $10 increase in the XXL seemed like an OK change, but with 4 phones owned/financed that now becomes a $30/month increase!
Heck I'd consider stepping down to the XL plan and just be a bit more mindful of data usage, but even that would cost me an extra $10/month for 2GB less data (18GB --> 16GB).
Not cool, Big Red.
Matter of opinion. I have AT&T for my personal and Verizon for work. I travel all over the USA and have yet to find a place I can't get a signal with AT&T but can with Verizon....but I have been to a couple of places where I can't get a signal with Verizon but can with AT&T. On top of that the call quality almost always sounds better on my AT&T phone.
I drove to Lincoln, NH this winter to bring my kids to the ice castle. Where I lost signal with AT&T in the Mountains were almost the same with Verizon. There were a lot of dead spots for both, I wouldn't say one was worse than the other between Albany NY and Lincoln NH.
AT&T definitely has coverage in obscure places where Verizon doesn't. I was driving through the Ozarks a couple weeks ago. I had no service on Verizon, and my fiancé was roaming on AT&T 4G. He has T-Mobile.
Verizon and AT&T balance each other out though. I have service in Iowa and Oklahoma (we live in Kansas, so we drive through those states to get elsewhere) while my fiancé has always had crummy service even when he was on AT&T. If you want almost complete national coverage, I would carry a Verizon phone and an AT&T phone.
No carrier has it all 100%. There are some places in Scottsdale where ATT has no coverage but Verizon does. I only know because we know people that live there. But I'm sure VZW and ATT are both looking to cover every square inch of the USA..
I haven't denied that nor would I, just saying. People who truly believe Verizon has better coverage are living in the "can you hear me now" era.
It's tough to say who has "better" coverage, because no one is on every square inch of terra firma in the US. Having said that, my only comment, is places that I go that are off the beaten track, VZW has at least voice coverage. Even on my last trip, down PCH from Carmel to Santa Barbara there were some VZW dead spots that lasted a few miles. But in the desert between San Diego and Phoenix, eg, there is coverage. So their coverage works for me.
Even in downtown Manhattan where people have been complaining, VZW must have done something, because my last LTE speedtest showed 50 down.
