Verizon Revamps Plans With More Data, Carryover Data, Unlimited 2G, and Higher Prices

[aneftp]

what do you get for that price? a free iphone on top?

in my country you get 20gigs 4g and unlimited phone call for 20$

I pay 58$ for 500gb. 4g with hbo,netflix and spotify included

your phone services are as expensive as your healthcare.

Yes it is.

It's a trade off. How much is ur cable internet bill? Mine is $35/month with bright house Internet 100mpbs unlimited.

How much is ur gasoline? Ours is around $2/gallon (4 liters?)

Think our food is cheaper as well (of course Americans are fatter as well)

We Americans (in general) like our country. And I assume you like your country as well.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

My favorite cell phone data plan comedy sketch.

That was funny.

 

[aneftp]

Inaccurate. Our Healthcare System is more costly by a wide margin.

Of course it is. But depends who's footing the bill. 30-40% of USA citizens are on taxpayer funded health plans Medicaid (CHIP) (free). Plus Medicare which most seniors citizens really under paid into the system.

Of course 70-80% of Americans have access to "private healthcare" where we perform elective surgeries like at 9pm-10pm or on weekends while most other countries try to wrap up surgery by 4-5pm.
[doublepost=1467858038][/doublepost]Question for non USA cell phone users.

I understand our cell phone bills are much higher than yours. I get that.

But does your cell phone provide coverage as large as and area as the USA?

Russia, China, Brazil, Canada are all large mass countries. What are the cell phone rates their that cover those land mass?

 

[Col4bin]

Let me guess... monkey see, monkey do AT&T to soon follow suit?

 

[\-V-/]

Wow. That stinks. How do you like T-Mobile reception

It's been great almost everywhere I've gone. I've had better reception at home than I ever did with Verizon. There are some areas when driving that Verizon was better ... but on the opposite end I have better reception where Verizon sucked. So it's a hit or miss. The customer service and just the way I'm treated in general is way better than Verizon, I can tell you that much. The Binge On has been really great. Unlimited movie and music streaming without taking a hit on the monthly data cap has been amazing. Feels like I have unlimited again.

 

[smirking]

It's actually $55, they're not mentioning the $20 "access fee."

That's actually the $20 for the talk/text part of the phone service. The $35 is the part that's for smartphone data.

We used to get charged $.10-$.20 per text message, but those are now unlimited. We're just getting gouged in a different area now.

 

[precogincog]

Meanwhile I'm paying $70 for 6 GB of data per month on AT&T... could be getting 33% more per month for what I'm paying if I were on Verizon instead.

And you could get a signal!

 

[smirking]

It's been great almost everywhere I've gone. I've had better reception at home than I ever did with Verizon. There are some areas when driving that Verizon was better ... but on the opposite end I have better reception where Verizon sucked. So it's a hit or miss.

Same experience here. I generally find Verizon with more reliable coverage. I mostly need access to mobile data so my phone is a Verizon phone and my iPad is on T-Mobile. If I need a heavy allotment of mobile data or I'm somewhere where it sucks to be on Verizon, I'll buy a prepaid data pack for my iPad. If you have to move around, you can't live on one network easily.

 

[libmanj]

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[Bawstun]

Unless you absolutely need V's coverage, and I mean ABSOLUTELY as in, no other carrier works in your area - then you should switch. Their prices have literally gone insane, and long before these latest changes. Currently I am on AT&T's Cricket Wireless and pay $65 for unlimited LTE with no 2G data capping. Insane what Verizon gets away with, IMO. The only people sticking with them (in my mind) have to be users who are very wealthy and just don't know or care about the value of a dollar.

 

[libmanj]

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[einmusiker]

one of the most egregious money-grubbing corporations in world history

 

[CarlJ]

Hello from Europe. Writing this from my 300mbit fibre optics line for $24/mo (no data caps).
We have unlimited LTE (no data caps) for $45/mo and I find this expensive.

what do you get for that price? a free iphone on top? in my country you get 20gigs 4g and unlimited phone call for 20$

OMG this is crazy! I live in London and I'm with Three UK which I find amazing, with £55 a month + £10 for insurance (£65 total) ...

Damn, you are really getting screwed in the US. My provider in Denmark: https://www.telmore.dk/mobil#

For roughly the same money as their top plan the $110 , on EE in the UK i've got 3 iPhone SE's with unlimited calls and text and 20GB Data shared between the devices. ...

You Americans really get screwed over on mobile data charges. I pay £20 (aproximately $5) a month in the UK for unlimited data. And I use it- I stream all day every day pretty much non stop.

From a European point of view this prices are crazily expensive. I live in Barcelona and here are the rates of a a Random company called MásMóvil. All with unlimited calls and prices are including VAT.

I feel sorry for you guys. Right now I'm paying something like $7,5 (after currency exchange) for everything unlimited (talking and SMS/MMS) and 36 gigs of internet... Prices in the USA are ridiculous

hello from italy, usa's carrier cost it's crazy! to expensive ! I pay monthly € 15 for 6 GB in LTE + unlimited edge, 1000minute call and 400 sms, and a free ticket at week for movie teather!

Just chiming in to say that here in Europe, I pay 7 euros for 2 GB 4G ($3 per GB after 2GB) , ultd text and 500 minutes

I just got HTC m8s and 500 minutes, 500 texts and 15 GB of data for €30 in Ireland. The phone is free of course.

I though the US was leading in free market competition like this. Here in Denmark i have this plan: Unlimited talk, sms, mms, data - 119DKK/month which is approx 18$/month -- https://plenti.dk/home. And you can choose to include entertainment for like 13$ extra, then you get free access to Tivoli, newspapers, e-books, audiobooks, magazines and much more. Oh and internet is 100mbit fiber for 100DKK/month which is approx 15$/month

Hello Europeans. Every time any article about US cellphone carriers comes out, we get plenty of these posts from you lot, crowing about your lower prices on data plans (it appears, given the above posts, you are each in such a hurry to breathlessly explain to us the exciting details of your data plans that you fail to look around to see whether other Europeans have already taken care of this obviously important task for you, leading to much unnecessary duplication of effort). In any case, I'm writing to assure you: we get it. We saw your posts on the last such article, and the article before that. All the Americans who wanted to move to Europe to take advantage of such plans already headed your way long ago. There is no need for you to post any further such comments on this article or any future such articles.

Thank you for your cooperation.

P.S. re: the bit about the fibre optics - what, do folks over there walk around town dragging fibre optic cables behind you, connected to your phones? If so, seems pretty awkward - we prefer these newfangled wireless connections, you really ought to check them out, much more convenient. If not, then what does that bit have to do with this article? And posting URLs to your carrier's prices? How on earth is that of any help to anyone who needs a data plan in the USA?

 

[kwikdeth]

Seriously does Verizon and AT&T copy everything T-Mobile does?? Unreal!!!

Everything except the price.

 

[mdlooker]

It all comes to fruition... All of those "Sir, you seem not to use much data according to your trend analysis. We have some..."

I then cut them off, "Um no thanks, I'm grandfathered and there's absolutely nooooo way I'm giving up my unlimited data."

AT&T we continue to have this love/hate thing going on.

 

[kwikdeth]

P.S. re: the bit about the fibre optics - what, do folks over there walk around town dragging fibre optic cables behind you, connected to your phones? If so, seems pretty awkward - we prefer these newfangled wireless connections, you really ought to check them out, much more convenient. If not, then what does that bit have to do with this article?

No, he's probably using that to illustrate how behind our data connections are, period. Fiber is increasingly common in Europe, whereas it's still a rare luxury here in the US. Ive always kind of chalked it up to the fact they never really had cable TV there like we did, so its been easier for them to roll it out. You have no idea how much the telcos and cable companies have done to make it impossible for new players like fiber carriers to enter local markets.

Now the flip side though, go *anywhere* in Europe and try to find a public Wifi network that isn't pay-to-access.

 

[PizzaBoxStyle]

To everyone outside the US, let me tell you...15 years ago, in the jungles of Thailand, I had cell service at a time we barely had decent service in the cities of the US. Today, coverage is better, but prices are ridiculous. The problem is (like our healthcare, which someone mentioned) there is nothing we can do about it. People are numb to the high prices. I don't know why we don't have 300mbit unlimited service in our homes for $30/mo. I don't know why carriers are still peddling 128kbs service, like they're doing us some sort of favor. We're being brainwashed.

Verizon, to me, has always been the worst value in the industry. A company that truly doesn't care about giving it's customers a decent deal. Always high prices, locked down phones, and bad policies keep me from ever switching to them.

People are dumb. That explains it.

In the section of Ohio I live in (in one of the bigger cities), if you aren't on Verizon your call isn't going through. I had ATT with my 3GS back between 2009-2011, it was not so good. During the summer I couldn't even squeak a text out (before iMessage) in my house (though oddly, I usually could in the winter). T-Mobile's plans are really tempting, but I've had them too (before the 3GS) and, well, again, 'meh.'

If you're in Ohio and you want a phone that works, you're on Verizon, end of story.

Having said that, I switched to some "single line plan" when VZW offered them a few years back. I get 1GB with unlimited talk and SMS for ~$56/mo. I am careful and I rarely go over, but if I do then another 500 MB is $15 so I just let it go over. Better to pay an overage once every year or so than to move to one of these awful new plans or be stuck with barely passable service on ATT or T-Mobile.

 

[vireakalexander]

Damn the US plans are expansive for what you get.

I was thinking that, and to think I thought the plans here in Aus were expensive.

 

[C DM]

Ill stick to my $70 unlimited everything tmobile plan, verizon is a joke
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I have tmobile, i say join the party, they have customer service who are willing to help, they dont throttle anything, music/video donesnt count towards data, tmobile tuesday app actually works giving out free or discounted promo codes, just check your coverage area i live in washington DC so i always have coverage

Not sure which one is a joke when for quite a few people there's no good reception in various important to them locations with T-Mobile...paying less for service that you can't use a lot of the time certainly seems like a joke.
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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.

It's a "nice" sentiment, if most things are ignored, but seems like even basic understanding of geography and economy would explain quite a bit of it all.
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Hello from Europe. Writing this from my 300mbit fibre optics line for $24/mo (no data caps).
We have unlimited LTE (no data caps) for $45/mo and I find this expensive.

My friend from Romania enjoys 1000mbit fibre optics line for $12/mo.

$35 for 2GB?? Totally ridiculous. You guys are getting milked hard over there.

And how are your gas prices or prices of many other goods?

Also, how big is your country?

Seems like some simple things go a long way in explaining how the world works.

 

[shawndc1]

Not sure which one is a joke when for quite a few people there's no good reception in various important to them locations with T-Mobile...paying less for service that you can't use a lot of the time certainly seems like a joke.

I live in washington dc, no service issues here or anywhere i travel too in the surrounding area, even the hills in west va i get service..but they also have a map to check your area so im sorry those FEW didnt do proper research, i mean coverage maps are only on commercials also

 

[C DM]

I live in washington dc, no service issues here or anywhere i travel too in the surrounding area, even the hills in west va i get service..but they also have a map to check your area so im sorry those FEW didnt do proper research, i mean coverage maps are only on commercials also

So how does any of that make it a joke for anyone else again? Seems like generalized absolute statements don't really work, as you yourself demonstrate.

 

[mgmacius]

It's actually $55, they're not mentioning the $20 "access fee."

I just got HTC m8s and 500 minutes, 500 texts and 15 GB of data for €30 in Ireland. The phone is free of course.

 

[rdlink]

Seriously does Verizon and AT&T copy everything T-Mobile does?? Unreal!!!

Well there are two things I will say about your question. First of all, no. They don't copy TMO. They try to make it look like they're copying but they're not offering the same value. Second, I find it funny that when TMO started shaking up the industry everyone was excited because they thought that VZW and ATT would follow suit. Now you're complaining because you think they are? LOL.

 

[WinterWolf90]

Man where do you work? My job only give us 22%

Nurse for a hospital.

 

[shawndc1]

So how does any of that make it a joke for anyone else again? Seems like generalized absolute statements don't really work, as you yourself demonstrate.

Saying verizon is a joke because they over charge people for their services & gimmicks, i had them as a home cable/internet provider. Outrages bills & fees which were never properly explained when i called along with other things i wont get into, its not that important . You must have verizon