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Visible introduces $5/mo Apple Watch Service

poorcody

poorcody

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Just got an email from Visible (Verizon-owned MVNO) that you can add Apple Watch unlimited cellular service for $5/mo (includes all taxes and fees). You must already have Visible service with your phone. First time I've been tempted to get cell service for my watch...

FAQ:

Visible | It's Phone Service. In An App.

www.visible.com www.visible.com
 
poorcody said:
Just got an email from Visible (Verizon-owned MVNO) that you can add Apple Watch unlimited cellular service for $5/mo (includes all taxes and fees). You must already have Visible service with your phone. First time I've been tempted to get cell service for my watch...

FAQ:

Visible | It's Phone Service. In An App.

www.visible.com www.visible.com
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Go for it if it suits your needs!
As I’ve stated in another thread, $5 per month is still $5 too much, pure greed, nothing else
 
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Visible is Verizon, isn't it? I have a prepaid plan with Verizon($25 per w/16GBs), would I need to switch to Visible in order to add a watch to the prepaid plan?
 
Seems fair to me. I‘m in Germany and we pay 5€/month for the additional e-sim for the Watch as well (T-Mobile). I love going for a walk/run just with the Watch and airpods and still being able to make/take calls and to get important messages.
 
KBJ55 said:
Visible is Verizon, isn't it? I have a prepaid plan with Verizon($25 per w/16GBs), would I need to switch to Visible in order to add a watch to the prepaid plan?
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Yeah, Verizon does own Visible, but you would have to switch to Visible. I pay $25/mo (including taxes/fees) for unlimited data with them (requires 4 lines). I find it a really good deal personally.
 
poorcody said:
Yeah, Verizon does own Visible, but you would have to switch to Visible. I pay $25/mo (including taxes/fees) for unlimited data with them (requires 4 lines). I find it a really good deal personally.
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I only need the single line so I'm guessing Visible is a no-go for me?
 
jz0309 said:
As I’ve stated in another thread, $5 per month is still $5 too much, pure greed, nothing else
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$5 may be $5 or $60 a year. However if you wanted to know how much you would need in year "2000" dollars, corrected for inflation, the answer is $3.15 AND in MHO, not greed.

I'm about to buy an Apple watch series 6 model without cellular and if I thought I could get $5 cellular, I would get that option.
 
StarShot said:
$5 may be $5 or $60 a year. However if you wanted to know how much you would need in year "2000" dollars, corrected for inflation, the answer is $3.15 AND in MHO, not greed.

I'm about to buy an Apple watch series 6 model without cellular and if I thought I could get $5 cellular, I would get that option.
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then by all means, go for it!
Me, personally, I have NO use case for cellular on AW even though I do have the cellular model.
 
jz0309 said:
then by all means, go for it!
Me, personally, I have NO use case for cellular on AW even though I do have the cellular model.
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I also had little interest in the Cellular Apple watch as well. From what I read, the watch does everything the Cellular does if I have my iPhone close by. I thought the cellular fee was $20 monthly, but I just read that Verizon charges $10 monthly for it.

However, now I'm thinking of all the times I forgot to grab my phone when driving or even walking around the neighborhood. IF I can truly make calls with my iPhone still back at home, I'm slight edging toward going cellular. A lot cheaper than buying a second phone at 33 cents a day. Maybe I'm sliding into the more forgetful stage, but I'm guessing I forget to pick up my phone around 10-25% of the time when I'm out of the house.

I assume I could even make/receive calls with my iPhone turned off back at home.
 
Another question, assume I get an Apple Watch with Cellular and tie it to my iPhone. Then, say I sell the iPhone just before the new phones come out with the previous phone zeroed out back to factory standards. IF I don't mention this to Verizon, will I be able to use the watch in cellular operation with my present number while I wait for the new iPhone to arrive? I'm guessing this would be 15-30 days before the new phone arrived.
 
the future said:
Seems fair to me. I‘m in Germany and we pay 5€/month for the additional e-sim for the Watch as well (T-Mobile). I love going for a walk/run just with the Watch and airpods and still being able to make/take calls and to get important messages.
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Really? Didn’t know that. I am a Telekom customer as well.
 
StarShot said:
Another question, assume I get an Apple Watch with Cellular and tie it to my iPhone. Then, say I sell the iPhone just before the new phones come out with the previous phone zeroed out back to factory standards. IF I don't mention this to Verizon, will I be able to use the watch in cellular operation with my present number while I wait for the new iPhone to arrive? I'm guessing this would be 15-30 days before the new phone arrived.
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AFAIK, you won’t be able to do this.

To your other comment, with a cellular watch the paradigm shifts away from “always have your phone nearby”. Neighborhood walks, bike ride to the store or cafe or pub, yard work beyond your wifi, etc. no need to carry your phone. Biggest for me is being able to use Siri to set a reminder / add to to-do or shopping list as I think of something. Or let my wife know I going to be a bit later than planned. And do not disturb works great for the times you don’t want to be bothered with a call or text or whatever.

FWIW I pay $10/mo incl all fees and taxes on TMobile.
 
Taubenweg said:
Really? Didn’t know that. I am a Telekom customer as well.
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Yes! It‘s like any other „multi-sim“. Also, transfering the plan to a new Watch is much easier now. When the cellular Watches were new, you had to call customer service to get a new e-sim and have it activated. Now you just choose to erase the e-sim from the old Watch when you unpair it (to sell it on) and the same e-sim just stays in your contract and you can choose it when setting up the new Watch.
 
Apple_Robert said:
T-Mobile also offers $5 / month Apple Watch service which they call a little slower than the standard $10 / month option.
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Oh cool, wasn't aware of that. I'm gonna need to check my watch data usage to see if it makes sense to drop down to the $5/mo plan.

Royksöpp said:
That's not prepaid though is it?
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No, postpaid only. I'm unaware of any prepaid options for an Apple Watch in the US. (maybe one exists, but if so I don't know what it is)
 
Apple_Robert said:
T-Mobile also offers $5 / month Apple Watch service which they call a little slower than the standard $10 / month option.
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I’ve never heard of that. Seeing how little data is needed for the watch, I wonder if you can even tell a difference between the two? Maybe you’d notice with streaming music or something?
 
PaladinGuy said:
I’ve never heard of that. Seeing how little data is needed for the watch, I wonder if you can even tell a difference between the two? Maybe you’d notice with streaming music or something?
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Yeah, after seeing mention of this I did some more research. Looks like the plan appeared a few months ago. At least one person on Reddit indicated streaming Pandora thru the watch didn't seem to impact their data allotment.

I think I'll give it a shot. Drops to 2G speeds after the 500MB of LTE data.

Worst case I switch it back.
 
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