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Verizon Revamps Plans With More Data, Carryover Data, Unlimited 2G, and Higher Prices
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If you're going to compare a Eurpean carrier plan to Verizon or ATT, you need to compare a European plan that lets you use your plan all over Europe without any roaming or surcharges. Seems like the moment most Europeans travel a few hundred miles away from home, their amazingly cheap plans are no longer amazingly cheap when you add roaming/international charges on them (nor do most allow for for unlimited talk or data out of the home area).
While not quite as inexpensive as some of the European plans posted, the US has smaller regional carriers that usually offer cheaper plans, but smaller calling areas.
The US big four carriers' plans cover the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and a few other islands/territories with no roaming fees. I have yet to see a European plan that covers that much area.
How are you getting that deal? T mobile retail is $95 (before taxes and fees) for a one-line unlimited everything plan. That's bringing your own phone, not a subsidized phone.
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Grandfathered in I would imagine, as there were indeed $50 unlimited everything plans for a while. They weren't very successful, as this was before Smart Phones and no one thought it to be a good deal when competitors were offering unlimited talk and text for about $30 a month and no one cared about data. So, those that did get in on this deal actually have a really good setup now.
Hello from the U.S. I'm 100% I can list dozens and dozens of products that are significantly less expensive here than in Europe. So what. Every region has items that are less expensive than others, and also ones that are more expensive. Even in the U.S. gasoline is significantly less expensive in South Carolina than even neighboring North Carolina.
Yes, U.S. cell carriers are expensive but it's a big country and they have to service all of it -- maybe not well, but at least a token effort. Those airwaves and antennas cost big money to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific and though a variety of terrain.
Europe's countries OTOH are effectively the size of one or two U.S. states or smaller: France is the size of Texas. Spain, California. And Texas is 2x the size of Germany. It's a lot easier and less expensive to run a network when you only operate in that small of an area. Your 1:1 comparisons aren't accurate at all.
I recently switched to AT&T from Verizon because coverage at home was not stellar. Also I got screwed with the bill being 160 - 170 a month.
With AT&T I was a able to have my wife and I bring out iPhones in and pay $111 a month. 15 GB rollover !
Verizon is just greedy and they know it!
With AT&T I was a able to have my wife and I bring out iPhones in and pay $111 a month. 15 GB rollover !
Verizon is just greedy and they know it!
That's the biggest scan ever. You pay for the data but you can't use it unless
want to see what we have to deal with in Canada?
Why is internet so bad in north america compared to europe?
When you do conversion rate and coverage throughout the US its not as drastic as people think it is. If you went with the top coverage provider EE in UK and Verizon in the States. Here is the differences:
EE:
Price monthly £50.99/mo = $65.96 US
Plan 10GB (Internet just stops after 10GB) Capped at 60MB/sec
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texts
£2.49 for 200 Picture Messaging/mo extra (MMS)
£229.99 Up front costs =$297.43 US
2Year contract
Total Cost 2 Years: £1872.79 = $2421.99
Verizon:
Price monthly $90/mo = £69.56 BP
Plan 8GB (Internet bills $15/mo for additional gig(s) of data) No Speed Cap
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texts/Picture Messaging (MMS)
$0 Upfront costs
No Contract (Must pay off your device balance)
Phone Cost: $39.58/mo
Total Cost 2 Years: $3109.92 = £2404.73
Differences is £22.16/mo
While EE gives you small amounts to use through out Europe. Most has to be used in the UK which is way smaller area covered. Verizon has no speed caps and has a lot more area to cover and not limited on MMS messages and data will roll over for one month.
I have neither but would gladly pay more and switch back to Verizon in a heartbeat and pay what they want cause it's worth it. AT&T is garbage. But Verizon or AT&T I have consistently hit over 90mb down and upload speed here.
EE:
Price monthly £50.99/mo = $65.96 US
Plan 10GB (Internet just stops after 10GB) Capped at 60MB/sec
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texts
£2.49 for 200 Picture Messaging/mo extra (MMS)
£229.99 Up front costs =$297.43 US
2Year contract
Total Cost 2 Years: £1872.79 = $2421.99
Verizon:
Price monthly $90/mo = £69.56 BP
Plan 8GB (Internet bills $15/mo for additional gig(s) of data) No Speed Cap
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texts/Picture Messaging (MMS)
$0 Upfront costs
No Contract (Must pay off your device balance)
Phone Cost: $39.58/mo
Total Cost 2 Years: $3109.92 = £2404.73
Differences is £22.16/mo
While EE gives you small amounts to use through out Europe. Most has to be used in the UK which is way smaller area covered. Verizon has no speed caps and has a lot more area to cover and not limited on MMS messages and data will roll over for one month.
I have neither but would gladly pay more and switch back to Verizon in a heartbeat and pay what they want cause it's worth it. AT&T is garbage. But Verizon or AT&T I have consistently hit over 90mb down and upload speed here.
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After reading the responses of what services other people get in other countries, all I can say is, we Americans are stupid fools!
Fools for letting big corporate America to financially rape us like they do. I guess we like to just bend over and take it for the team cause we sure as hell don't stand up for ourselves.
Fools for letting big corporate America to financially rape us like they do. I guess we like to just bend over and take it for the team cause we sure as hell don't stand up for ourselves.
Are they still giving you 2gb free per new device you buy under this plan? On the previous easy to use size plan, every device you activate that is new and bought through vw, you get 2gb for the life of the device on the plan, on top of the pooled data plan you get per month.
That's so cool. Having data last a year. I can only wish the US would do stuff like that.
Based on the responses here, I am sure I am an exception. But I am pretty happy about these changes. I will actually save about $25 month AND get 9gb more of shared data.
I am currently on a shared 15gb plan (with 2.5gb of promo data that expires in 2 months), and we push it every month. So getting the headroom of 24gb, plus being able to remove the Canadian/Mexican extra I currently pay for since I travel to those countries, is a benefit for me.
Technically I could really try to scrape by with the 16gb plan and save that extra $20/mo, but I don't want to deal with the throttling and/or overages.
I am currently on a shared 15gb plan (with 2.5gb of promo data that expires in 2 months), and we push it every month. So getting the headroom of 24gb, plus being able to remove the Canadian/Mexican extra I currently pay for since I travel to those countries, is a benefit for me.
Technically I could really try to scrape by with the 16gb plan and save that extra $20/mo, but I don't want to deal with the throttling and/or overages.
I think it's hilarious yet somewhat impressive how Verizon can tout throttling as a new feature... And charge you for it!
LOL, sadly these prices look pretty respectable coming from Canada. Still a screw job, just less of one than we get from our carriers...
All of our carriers (except for the small, crappy ones and people grandfathered on better plans) are charging $60-65 per month for text and calling (no data) plus $45 per month for 4GB of data. So we are getting the shaft at $100 plus a month for a 4GB plan.
Oh, and $5 a day to travel to US and Mexico, and you just hand over your car, house or firstborn to travel anywhere else in the world and actually use your phone...
All of our carriers (except for the small, crappy ones and people grandfathered on better plans) are charging $60-65 per month for text and calling (no data) plus $45 per month for 4GB of data. So we are getting the shaft at $100 plus a month for a 4GB plan.
Oh, and $5 a day to travel to US and Mexico, and you just hand over your car, house or firstborn to travel anywhere else in the world and actually use your phone...
We had roaming charges in the past but not anymore in the European Union (including Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Faroe Islands) I can go to Germany, Italy, Denmark call and use internet like in Barcelona, no extra price. The European Parliament has been pushing providers to remove roaming within the EU and Shengen Area. Is happening already, not all companies but many, by next June will be mandatory to all of them.
So, your point is not valid anymore
Source: Europa https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/roaming-tariffs
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lol we've been with Verizon since they first changed to being named Verizon and we are on the exact Verizon plan every other customer is on. and we pay $60/mo for 15/1 Mbps internet.
