Verizon, Verizon prepaid, Straight Talk data coverage

Prepaid Verizon coverage is not the same as Contract coverage. The native Verizon coverage is the same, but contract users benefit from partnership agreements that provide roaming coverage in areas where Verizon itself does not have great coverage. Compare them in Missouri and Oklahoma for instance.

I have prepaid and appreciate it despite this difference.

TomG2 wrote:
Prepaid Verizon coverage is not the same as Contract coverage. The native Verizon coverage is the same, but contract users benefit from partnership agreements that provide roaming coverage in areas where Verizon itself does not have great coverage. Compare them in Missouri and Oklahoma for instance.

I have prepaid and appreciate it despite this difference.

Tom, are we talking voice, data, or both?

Snowman9000 wrote:

TomG2 wrote:
Prepaid Verizon coverage is not the same as Contract coverage. The native Verizon coverage is the same, but contract users benefit from partnership agreements that provide roaming coverage in areas where Verizon itself does not have great coverage. Compare them in Missouri and Oklahoma for instance.

I have prepaid and appreciate it despite this difference.

Tom, are we talking voice, data, or both?

Not sure, but voice for sure. Apparently they have some roaming agreements that supplement their contract coverage. Where I winter and summer, I have native Verizon service, so Prepaid works for me.

OK, I found these maps, and Tom appears to be correct.

Prepaid

Contract

If you open them in new tabs, and click back and forth between them, at least in my browser the maps are in the exact same spot on the screen so you can start to see the differences. Out west it's harder to pinpoint the difference but they are there. In the east the differences seem to be minimal. Midcontinent, there are some for sure.

What rockhillmanor said. I had my new Moto G and the prepaid $45 Verizon Plan and on the third day I got a note from Verizon to add more data. I didn't even know how to answer a call yet. Went to BB and they showed me how to disable data all together. Never used any data and over 4Meg was gone.

D.E.Bishop wrote:
What rockhillmanor said. I had my new Moto G and the prepaid $45 Verizon Plan and on the third day I got a note from Verizon to add more data. I didn't even know how to answer a call yet. Went to BB and they showed me how to disable data all together. Never used any data and over 4Meg was gone.

Something is wrong, you get 500 meg included with the $45 prepaid plan. 4Meg is only one percent of that.

TomG2 wrote:

D.E.Bishop wrote:
What rockhillmanor said. I had my new Moto G and the prepaid $45 Verizon Plan and on the third day I got a note from Verizon to add more data. I didn't even know how to answer a call yet. Went to BB and they showed me how to disable data all together. Never used any data and over 4Meg was gone.

Something is wrong, you get 500 meg included with the $45 prepaid plan. 4Meg is only one percent of that.

It even gets more insane if you look at the usage chart monitor on your phone it states in real small type under it....

that the 'actual' usage may differ from what your phone provider states. :R:R

Things appear smaller in this mirror than they actually are. :B

I would expect to use one percent of my included data in retrieving contacts, updating programs, and general housekeeping.

TomG2 wrote:
I would expect to use one percent of my included data in retrieving contacts, updating programs, and general housekeeping.

I found out all your apps just sitting on the phone use data even if you have them shut off in the settings....and it's a lot of data.

I found this out 'back in the day' when you could get a smart phone 'with out a data plan' and you got an itemized bill of ALL the data used that you were expected to pay for!!

My first bill had 4 pages of data usage costs that I never used and after going over it all with my provider they were all from apps running, accessing, and downloading to the phone.

So no one is getting the full amount of the data package you purchase. From what I saw 1/3 is used by extraneous items using YOUR data in the background. The more game apps etc you have packed onto your phone the more of your data is being eaten up alive. which explains all the complaints on how fast your data gets used.

IMHO they know this and maybe planned it so they CAN throttle you back which adds to their profit line.