VERIZON CHANGING DATA PLANS AGAIN
VERIZON running off us GRANDFATHERED guys I guess. We have the unlimited DATA on our older DROID cell phone account which isn't suppose to go away until around 2030 sometime. Also have a grandfat...
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RoyB wrote:
dahkota - we are almost the same as you except my DROID does not tether. Had to get the MIFI unit to do that. It actualy worked out better for me in that I can have up to five of my wifi enabled devices working at same time. Also in the early days of using tether mode it tied up the cellphone.
Understand the newer cell cellphones doesn't get tied up when in tether mode...
My VERIZON bill is $248 a mo for two smart phone accounts, one standard cellphone account and the MIFI 3GB dataplan account. It appears I will be seeing a $40 increase depending on what VERIZON will want to do about my grandfather MIFI 3GB account.
We use Easy Tether. It works really well (I am using it right now). Using the phone's tethering would cost extra - easy tether is a one time charge (and you can try the lite version free). Right now, we have 5 phones on our plan (3 smart phones, 2 regular phones) for $240 per month. We will be dropping the 2 regular phones (mom and a dummy line) so with the increase, the three phones will be $240/month.
When tethered, my phone still works. I lose the internet when on a cell call but when we need to talk and be on the internet, we use one phone for the call and the other for the internet. The third smart phone is my son's who is in New York. I don't think we have 5 wifi devices we need to use at the same time...
