VERIZON DATA PLAN INCREASE

Appreciate everyones comments. We have to stay with VERIZON as here where we live only VERIZON works good inside our house. SPRINT and AT&T work here but all kinds of dead spots around our house...

VERIZON is also planning on putting a new tower less than 1/2 mile away from us to cover this dead spot in their local coverage area...

I definitely need to talk with the Verizon reps again and see what changes I can make... Sure sounds like $290 a month is way over charged for what we do here...

I sorta hate to get tied into another two year contract but maybe I can just change things and reduce the monthly bill I have today... I don't need to buy new cell phones for now...

Roy Ken

Wow Verizon is expensive. Our Cricket phones each have 10 GB and then unlimited slower speed for $65 a month with the hotspot feature. You can do a group plan and save even more if the AT&T network covers you. (unlimited talk and text)

On Sprint you can get unlimited LTE data with Karma for $50 a month.

My Ringplus phone has 1400 mins talk, 1400 text and 1200 MBs of data free month to month, extra data is $8 a gig. Sprint 4G is limited but their 3G expands the coverage.

coolmom42 wrote:

rjxj wrote:
I must have what coolmom mentioned.
2 smart phones, unlimited talk text, 20 gig, $200. They text me if I'm reaching the data limit and I can respond yes for an increase of $10.00 for2 gig or be charged overage at $15.00 2 gig.

You have to look at the total before fees/taxes....

20Gb is shown at $120/month. So your base should be $160/month.

If you bought a phone on contract, you pay $20 more. I bought out my contract to save money in the long run.

Both phones are off contract but they are trying hard to get me to do it again.

rjxj wrote:
I must have what coolmom mentioned.
2 smart phones, unlimited talk text, 20 gig, $200. They text me if I'm reaching the data limit and I can respond yes for an increase of $10.00 for2 gig or be charged overage at $15.00 2 gig.

You have to look at the total before fees/taxes....

20Gb is shown at $120/month. So your base should be $160/month.

If you bought a phone on contract, you pay $20 more. I bought out my contract to save money in the long run.

tsetsaf wrote:
Regarding the price increase for grandfathered unlimited plans we have a really old grandfathered 3G plan that costs us $69.99 per month for data. The 4G WITH the increase is still a deal.

If you have unlimited data, that is a deal for sure.

I must have what coolmom mentioned.
2 smart phones, unlimited talk text, 20 gig, $200. They text me if I'm reaching the data limit and I can respond yes for an increase of $10.00 for2 gig or be charged overage at $15.00 2 gig.

Regarding the price increase for grandfathered unlimited plans we have a really old grandfathered 3G plan that costs us $69.99 per month for data. The 4G WITH the increase is still a deal.

Verizon has a new rate plan structure.

$20/month access for smart phones
$10/month access for hotspots

Unlimited text and talk on all phones.

Then you buy as much data as you need to share between all the devices on your bill.

You should not be paying for minutes or texts with limits, ever.

It's all on their web site in plain English, very clearly explained in large print.

VERIZON PLAN

You can switch to one of these plans any time you want, and change the data amount any time you want. My bill dropped by $20/month as soon as the plans changed and I switched over.

Verizon has by far the best coverage away from major cities and interstates.

APT - I know I need to look into all of it again... I was paying out around $250 a month for two smart phones, one regular phone, and the 3GB MIFI plan. This is now going up to $290 a month... This includes 1400 minute Nationwide share and TX plan. The two smart phones have unlimited TXT and DATA...

My daughter uses the heck out of her smart phone with the unlimited TXT and would hate to lose that but now that I am not running the work road trips we could really cut back on the 1400 minute Nationwide service plan. It is listed at $100 on the account. I could cut that down to over-ride the $40 increase I just got I guess...

Right now I am not not using much on my phone data wise. The MIFI unit gets used for a couple of GB per month but that could change big time when we get on the camping roads again... We use the MIFI for our back-up internet here at the house when not on the road camping.

I am downstreaming alot from our local internet provider which is Metrocast and can use their TV EVERYWHERE anywhere I can get internet. More and more WIFI is starting to show up here with LOWES and WALMART and three or four hot spots around town that is supported by Metrocast. Very seldom get on VERIZON to downstream anything except my RADIO SCANNER AP which eats up around 400-500MBs per month which is covered good by the EMAIL AND UNLIMITED DATA on the account for my smart phone.

When you go down and talk with VERIZON they are pretty much closed mouthed on what your options are to cut costs haha...

We guys on the limited monthly budget have a hard time making ends meet haha...

We all have somewhat modern new phones we get from the kids when they upgrade or off of ebay... We can change phones on our account and not increase the plan if we stay with the same type phones.

You know how we older guys work - Been with Verizon since the 70s haha... Being on the road alot in my working days this was the only plan that worked when you got away from the interstates across the country.

I think I can get my plan down to the $250 a month pretty easy by changing the 1400 minutes to maybe 800 minutes. We only talk long distance to family members now scattered across the country. We can also use this to add up to 10 members under the Family plan at no additional cost to us that works like the free weekend plan all the time not just on weekends.. Most of us are all on Verizon plans which helps...

Roy Ken

jerseyjim wrote:
Does anyone offer a "smart phone" without a data plan?

That would be like performing a lobotomy on a human.