So what, who and when is this affecting me?
angelshaven wrote:
Ok...I'm concerned and confused! Verizon's changes always confuses me. I am the bill carrier and I pay the bills and I need to know what this will do to me without calling the unintelligible folks that will confuse me even further! I have 3 smartphones currently on the 1400 minute plan with unlimited data and 2 verizon netbooks with each 5gb plans. I currently pay $350 monthly. What will this do to me? Can anyone explain?
There's a few options depending on how much data you use.
1. If the smartphones stay under 2 GB, you could just get the individual 2GB tiered plan when you upgrade and your bill would be the same.
2. 10GB Share Everything with 3 smartphones and 2 netbooks would be $260 before taxes/fees and insurance. ($100 for the 10GB to be shared, $40 for each smartphone and $20 for each netbook). All devices would share the 10GB and you can add 2GB more for $10 so you could probably get 16GB shared and stay under what you pay now. What helps here is that once the netbooks are out of contract, you can cancel those and use the shared hotspot from your smartphones which would instantly save you $40/month.
3. Have the smartphones on a Share Everything plan and the netbooks on their own 10GB or less data only share plan. That one is a little more complicated without knowing your data usage.
Between hubby and I and our 2 laptops we use 5gb a month or less! But the teenager is another story. He blows his gb usage out of the water!
I do enjoy my Verizon services but I must say they don't have a good business model going here. I believe they have more unsatisfied customers right now than ever. It does seem they are operating under greed and not customer service/loyalty. The $30 upgrade fee, if they marketed this that other companies still have it they dont they could probably gain more market share in each state. In sales and retail you cant worry about what the next company is doing, you have to focus on what separates you from the rest. The one that gets me is $30 unlimited text charge even when have a smart.That use to be part of a data plan and having a smart phone. I pay $300 per month to them I'm considering switching as well. They are pushing customers away.
I've read literally hundreds of comments on this (and other) forums, and I have seen only a few people claim they will save money with the Share Everything plan. These tend to have three or more smartphones and other devices that need 4+ GB/month. Most everyone else will lose if they have to upgrade. In my case (one smartphone w/unlimited data and two plain cellphones, one with text, on a 700 minute family plan) I will pay $30/month more if I go ahead with my plan to upgrade to an LTE smartphone later this year. And I lose my unlimited data to boot. How can VZW imply they are saving most people money with this new plan, when the facts don't support it? Count me as another formerly-happy VZW customer that will be shopping around!
im just gobsmacked they're not listening. nobody likes this new greedy plan, but they're sticking to it because the ceo needs another 24million dollar salary fiscal year
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If you don't already use unlimited minutes or you have a couple basic phones on your plan you're totally screwed. $30 is just waaaay too much for a basic phone that isn't heavily used. I prefer the option T-Mobile has where you can add lines with limited minutes to unlimited plans for much less. My grandmother doesn't need a billion minutes.
I have to say, I'm totally not down with the "all family plans must now have unlimited minutes at increased expense" approach Big Red is takin'. Verizon should really consider offering plans to suit different usage patterns. Just look at how my plan will shift relative to my current plan. $60 bucks more for less data and waaaay more minutes than I'll ever use? No shanks!
CURRENT PLAN
69.99 700 min for first two lines
60.00 "unlimited" data for two smartphones (we use a little more than 1GB per month each)
19.98 for two dumb phones
TOTAL: $149.97
NEW PLAN
70.00 4 GB shared data
80.00 2 smart phones
60.00 2 dumb phones
TOTAL $210.00
Increase: $60/month $720/year
barely anyone uses voice calls anymore, its kinda like how text are pretty much unlimited for cheap these days when it use to be a preimum
its just the next evolution
enjoy your first 2 gigs on tmobile.. then good luck accessing anything
also they have a 1800 just to handle dropped call credits, so thats pretty useful
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