Verizon data plans/hotspot

[2oldman]

Due to my streaming youtube videos, I went over my Verizon data allowance this month to the tune of $30 (2 gigs at $15 each). I was notified of only ONE overcharge, and warned another was close. I stopped using the phone immediately, for 2 days. I chatted with them today, suggesting it might be polite of them to notify customers correctly about overage charges. They claim I was, I say I wasn't. The charges stick.

I then inquired about getting more data. The plans available to me are 'go unlimited' and 'beyond unlimited', which sound good, but the hotspot feature is either non-existent or throttled at 15g. The salesman who tried to sell me the 'go' plan neglected to mention that. He also said I could go back to my 24 gig plan. Also not true - according to the website.

So, if you're a hotspot on-your-phone user, beware.

[Ralph_Cramden]

azrving wrote:


I wonder what it would be like to not touch it for a week. There is no phone on the wall or princess model by the bed!

It's awesome.

When it comes to Camping I search out campgrounds that have no cell service or WiFi. I have a gem within 50 miles of the Pittsburgh mess of an urban area with nothing. It's special. If you absolutely needed to make a call there are a few spots you can walk to on top of hills and get signal but you need to work at it or I just use the On star in my truck.

[TechWriter]

2oldman wrote:

I then inquired about getting more data. The plans available to me are 'go unlimited' and 'beyond unlimited', which sound good, but the hotspot feature is either non-existent or throttled at 15g. The salesman who tried to sell me the 'go' plan neglected to mention that. He also said I could go back to my 24 gig plan. Also not true - according to the website.

I never switched over to the Verizon not-unlimited plan as it sounded like BS from the get go.

I'm still on the "New Verizon Plan" which works like so:

2 GB = $35/mo
4 GB = $50/mo
8 GB = $70/mo
12 GB = $80/mo
16 GB = $90/mo
24 GB = $110/mo
30 GB = $135/mo
40 GB = $180/mo
50 GB = $225/mo
60 GB = $270/mo
80 GB = $360/mo
100 GB = $450/mo

After you select a data level, you can change it up or down.

You might want to see if the New Verizon Plan is still available.

[67Cutlass]

Back to the OP's post...

FMCA is offering a 25G unlimited data plan through Verizon. Cost is $49.95 per month. You also get a Jetpack for $.01. Getting the Jetpack requires a 2 year commitment.

Since I'm using a Pepwave Max BR1 router with built in modem I didn't need the Jetpack. So I got the 24G at $49.95 without the two year commitment.

You will get throttled at 25G with this data plan, not the typical 15G like others.


Verizon 4G MIFI Benefit

[DallasSteve]

Johno02 wrote:
I get more amazed and amused every time I start reading a new thread about how much data, and how much it costs, and all that. Remembering back just a few years, when having a telephone meant having a nickle or quarter to put in a pay phone on the corner! Then looking at how fast this has all come about is also astounding! We were able to raise our family, tour a lot of the US, live our daily lives of work and play, when the only way to communicate with our friends and family was by letter mail written in longhand script and a week was really fast delivery time. And for some, the world was a better place. And mobile phones were in the truck of a car, and had long whip antennas.

If my wife can't have her Facebook I will have to full-time alone.

[2oldman]

Just in the last week I've ordered obscure trailer parts like ladder rungs and burner knobs. Also a GPS, and cat food that's tough to get locally. All these products are delivered in days, without breakage, to the correct address, for nominal or no cost, all without getting hijacked or stolen.

Just 20 or 30 years ago this was much more difficult. Technology rules.

[Dutch_12078]

Don't forget that it was us oldsters that invented these modern devices because we saw a need for them.

[Bill_Satellite]

I AM NOT HOOKED AND I AM OFFENDED BY THOSE WHO ASSUME WE ALL ARE!
I have gone for nearly an hour in the past without looking at my phone!
:S

[drsteve]

coolmom42 wrote:

I really don't see why people have a hotspot anyway. It's just as easy to get an old cheap smartphone and use it as a dedicated hotspot. Or if you don't mind switching the hotspot off and on, you can just use one of your regular phones.

If you accept a phone call while using the hotspot, the phone disconnects from the internet.

[camperkilgore]

2oldman wrote:

camperkilgore wrote:
I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back.

You don't need a time machine. Just stop using the computer. Get off this forum, no google, no youtube, no online maps, no GPS. Use paper maps, ask for directions. Write checks. Go into banks. Buy stamps, write letters, do business on the phone.

See how long that lasts.

Yep, it's like dope. We are all hooked.

[2oldman]

camperkilgore wrote:
I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back.

You don't need a time machine. Just stop using the computer. Get off this forum, no google, no youtube, no online maps, no GPS. Use paper maps, ask for directions. Write checks. Go into banks. Buy stamps, write letters, do business on the phone.

See how long that lasts.

[Bill_Satellite]

Johno02 wrote:
I get more amazed and amused every time I start reading a new thread about how much data, and how much it costs, and all that. Remembering back just a few years, when having a telephone meant having a nickle or quarter to put in a pay phone on the corner! Then looking at how fast this has all come about is also astounding! We were able to raise our family, tour a lot of the US, live our daily lives of work and play, when the only way to communicate with our friends and family was by letter mail written in longhand script and a week was really fast delivery time. And for some, the world was a better place. And mobile phones were in the truck of a car, and had long whip antennas.

Do you reach the same level of amazement and amusement when you talk on your own cell phone? When you are able to use a GPS (stand alone or on your phone)? Google everything? Order stuff from Amazon and have it arrive on your doorstep 2 days later? See cars drive by that don't use any gas? Watch HDTV or a 80" flat screen? Record 5 satellite channels simultaneously while you are away and watch the play back just like it's live? Things change. It really should not be surprising when folks discussing that they take advantage of these changes.

[azrving]

camperkilgore wrote:

Johno02 wrote:
I get more amazed and amused every time I start reading a new thread about how much data, and how much it costs, and all that. Remembering back just a few years, when having a telephone meant having a nickle or quarter to put in a pay phone on the corner! Then looking at how fast this has all come about is also astounding! We were able to raise our family, tour a lot of the US, live our daily lives of work and play, when the only way to communicate with our friends and family was by letter mail written in longhand script and a week was really fast delivery time. And for some, the world was a better place. And mobile phones were in the truck of a car, and had long whip antennas.

I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back. I don't remember having the aggravation that I have now with all the electronics invading our lives. Password changes alone are driving me nuts. Not to mention all the thieves that now try in every possible way to swim into our finances through the "streams".

I wonder what it would be like to not touch it for a week. There is no phone on the wall or princess model by the bed!

[camperkilgore]

Johno02 wrote:
I get more amazed and amused every time I start reading a new thread about how much data, and how much it costs, and all that. Remembering back just a few years, when having a telephone meant having a nickle or quarter to put in a pay phone on the corner! Then looking at how fast this has all come about is also astounding! We were able to raise our family, tour a lot of the US, live our daily lives of work and play, when the only way to communicate with our friends and family was by letter mail written in longhand script and a week was really fast delivery time. And for some, the world was a better place. And mobile phones were in the truck of a car, and had long whip antennas.

I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back. I don't remember having the aggravation that I have now with all the electronics invading our lives. Password changes alone are driving me nuts. Not to mention all the thieves that now try in every possible way to swim into our finances through the "streams".

[kerrlakeRoo]

Am currently using a Moto g (factory bought, unlocked) on total wireless and do use it as a hotspot. 2 phones, unl talk & text, and 15 gigs of data for $57 a month. Extra data is 5 gigs for $10.
Total wireless still says no tethering but if you don't tell them, they don't know, and they do sell a mobile hotspot.
Oh and Verizon towers so same coverage as what you had.

[NHIrish]

Suggest checking out total wireless. It is a byop plan and they use Verizon towers. Plans are much cheaper, and add-on data is MUCH cheaper....5 gb add-on is only $10.00 and it will roll over in your account.