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Is there a way to get unlimited data on verizon if i only have 2gb of data?
Not likely since ultimately Verizon is trying to phase out those of us that DO have unlimited by making it so the only way we can keep unlimited past the 28th is buying phones full price.
if you are willing to go to prepaid you might be able to get it, i had a co-worker activate an old thunderbolt on pre paid i sold her thinking she was gonna only get the 1gb that was being advertised in the $80 plan but apparently that plan is only available on the samsung illusion, so she ended up getting i think for 450 mins, 1000 text messages and unlimited data for $90ish
Nope.
Go sprint or tmobile before its too late
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Do an assumption of liablity of somebodies line who has unlimited data. That's what I did but I just lost it again because I switched to employlee plan. Oh well 5gbs, 1500 mins, and unl. texts for only 40 bucks? I'll take it =)
I was in the middle of an AT&T contract when VZW did away with their unlimited data plans. I was holding off, then when they announced the Share Everything plans were starting I decided to finally jump ship. Unfortunately, the "Double your data" promo had come and gone twice before I signed up, otherwise I wouldn't be considering this current change.
I'm currently on a 2GB, 450min, with $10/1000txts plan. With my corporate discount, that's $72/mo. I also have 3 tablets active on a share data-only plan; those total $60, and share 4GB. Total pre-tax/fee bill is $132.
Phone - $32
2GB Data - $30
Txts - $10
4GB Data - $30
Tablet 1 - $10
Tablet 2 - $10
Tablet 3 - $10
Total $132
If I go with an complete Share Everything plan, my bill would be as follows, for the same amount of data:
Phone - $40
Tablet 1 - $10
Tablet 2 - $10
Tablet 3 - $10
6GB Data - $74 (after discount)
Total $134
So, $2 more, I can tether with VZW's blessing, (plus w/o needing to deal with FoxFi, rooting/hacking my phone, etc), and unlimited talk and text. Those last two mean nothing to me, as I'm used 103/450 minutes, and 483/1000 texts last month. The blessed tethering is nice though. Plus, if I go over my allocation (like this month..both data buckets went over), I can go up in 2GB/$10 increments for everything, instead of 1GB/$10 for my phone AND 2GB/$10 on the tablets.
It seems worth it now...but I was against it when I just had the phone and 1 tablet. Then my bill was $102 (same phone cost, plus $30 tablet). Going to shared data would have been $106, and I didn't see any benefit to paying the $4 more per month.
But before I switch, I want to know if there's any downsides to worry about. Anyone already switched to Share Everything, and regret it?
I have the share everything with 12 gig, 4 phones. Haven't found any downsides in the time I've had it
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Seems sort of pointless to me to have a share everything plan w/ tablets on there when you can tether.
I would do the share everything in your case, but not add extra tablets and use that money for extra data.
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Seems sort of pointless to me to have a share everything plan w/ tablets on there when you can tether.
I would do the share everything in your case, but not add extra tablets and use that money for extra data.
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The idea is that those tablets are subsdized.
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The idea is that those tablets are subsdized.
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I thought they stopped doing that?
The savings aren't as good as with the phones. Saving $200 bucks on a tablet, but having to pay extra a month when you can freely tether with your phone still makes no sense. I'd rather pay full price and then not have to deal with the contract. To each his own though.
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I thought they stopped doing that?
The savings aren't as good as with the phones. Saving $200 bucks on a tablet, but having to pay extra a month when you can freely tether with your phone still makes no sense. I'd rather pay full price and then not have to deal with the contract. To each his own though.
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Ah, maybe they did.
I'm not current with Verizon stuff, apparently.
So I work at a Best Buy Mobile and from my experience with these new plans, you're one of the few people who, from a cost perspective, it actually isn't detrimental to switch to the new ShareEverything Plans. Way too often do I see people who's bills would go up at least $30 just to get less data but unlimited talk/text (whoop dee doo...)
The way I look at it is if you're one of the people who would employ the add a line to a family plan for an upgrade tactic, then the share plans aren't worth it since you'd have to pay an extra $30 a month for 2 years just for an extra upgrade to use vs the old $9.99 a month method.
But seeing as you're on a individual 450 talk, the add a line trick for family plans doesn't work for you. But since you go over on data plans occasionally, the switch to shareeverything is easier on the wallets when it comes to data overages (so long as you call Verizon BEFORE you go over on data). It's $10 for 2 more gigs since you're just moving up a plan tier, but its $15/gb when you go over your data plan.
The new share everything plans are really just bad for individual accounts, people with mostly basic phones on their family plans, or families who only need minimum minutes per month and only have a smart phone or two. For example on people without any discounts, on the old setups, Nationwide Talk 450 + 1000 txt + 2gig data = $80 before tax; the closest plan like that is now the ShareEverything 2GB which is $60 + smartphone access for $100 together...$20 more just unlimited talk and text? Not worth it. Same concept usually applies to people on lower family plans like the Nationwide Talk 700 or even the Nationwide Talk 1400, not always cost effective.
Do keep this in mind, since you do get a hotspot feature included in the new plans, you don't need to buy cellular tablets as much anymore, thereby saving $130 or more when you buy the tablet. So that could be $10 less a month for each tablet you don't need to hook onto your verizon plan.
As a side note, why is your discount only $6? Most corporate discounts with Verizon are at least 15% Most of the ones I see are 20-22% ...Just saying
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The idea is that those tablets are subsdized.
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As said above, 3 tablets. One person's is an iPad, which wouldn't have been subsidized anyway, and was purchased off Craigslist, furthering the argument. The other 2 are Xooms, and in fact did get a subsidized price on them. Both were refurbished, on sale, and ended up at $200 and 250 with 2 year contract.
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Seems sort of pointless to me to have a share everything plan w/ tablets on there when you can tether.
I would do the share everything in your case, but not add extra tablets and use that money for extra data.
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You obviously haven't had a 3G/4G tablet for the last year. It's spoiled me, and I can't go back. I have done that previously, tethering WiFi devices to my phone. Also, only one of them is mine, the other two are carried by 2 other folks. At best I'd be saving $10, and it's worth it to me to have it connected. Plus, as mentioned above, 2 of 3 are under contract.
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So I work at a Best Buy Mobile and from my experience with these new plans, you're one of the few people who, from a cost perspective, it actually isn't detrimental to switch to the new ShareEverything Plans. Way too often do I see people who's bills would go up at least $30 just to get less data but unlimited talk/text (whoop dee doo...)
The way I look at it is if you're one of the people who would employ the add a line to a family plan for an upgrade tactic, then the share plans aren't worth it since you'd have to pay an extra $30 a month for 2 years just for an extra upgrade to use vs the old $9.99 a month method.
But seeing as you're on a individual 450 talk, the add a line trick for family plans doesn't work for you. But since you go over on data plans occasionally, the switch to shareeverything is easier on the wallets when it comes to data overages (so long as you call Verizon BEFORE you go over on data). It's $10 for 2 more gigs since you're just moving up a plan tier, but its $15/gb when you go over your data plan.
The new share everything plans are really just bad for individual accounts, people with mostly basic phones on their family plans, or families who only need minimum minutes per month and only have a smart phone or two. For example on people without any discounts, on the old setups, Nationwide Talk 450 + 1000 txt + 2gig data = $80 before tax; the closest plan like that is now the ShareEverything 2GB which is $60 + smartphone access for $100 together...$20 more just unlimited talk and text? Not worth it. Same concept usually applies to people on lower family plans like the Nationwide Talk 700 or even the Nationwide Talk 1400, not always cost effective.
Do keep this in mind, since you do get a hotspot feature included in the new plans, you don't need to buy cellular tablets as much anymore, thereby saving $130 or more when you buy the tablet. So that could be $10 less a month for each tablet you don't need to hook onto your verizon plan.
As a side note, why is your discount only $6? Most corporate discounts with Verizon are at least 15% Most of the ones I see are 20-22% ...Just saying
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Multiple points/questions to respond to. You're correct, originally, it made no sense. That's why I signed up when I did, so I wouldn't get forced into the new plans when I finally got around to dropping AT&T, as it would cost me more for no benefit to me. I did the add-a-line to upgrade on AT&T, but won't be doing it again even if I could.
You don't have to call before you go over your allowance. You just need to call before the next cycle starts; I did this for last month's overages. Cycle end 2/6, called 2/5.
I'd still probably buy cellular tablets, especially if (like iPads) that's the only way to get a real GPS chip. The Nexus 7 seems to be the exception, with the WiFi model having GPS. I've unlocked hotspot on every phone and been using it for years, and having it included will certainly be nice.
The discount on VZW is for certain aspects only, plus, one of us mis-calculated . Yes, mine is 20%. With a basic plan, it applies to the minutes portion ($40*20%=$8, so $32)...possibly the data too, if you have the 5GB/$50 plan. With the Share Everything, it instead applies to the shared Data/Voice/Text chunk, and not the device cost. So, 6GB is $80*20%=$16, or $64 (not $74). Add device costs (40+10+10+10) is $134, which is the number I noted. Surprised no one called me out on that basic arithmetic fail instead.
I just switched from 4gb to 10gb data for a few dollars more. They have a special going on for the 10gb. $100 +15 each line. Att rocks
I live in a Major metropolitan area.
I pay 70 bucks a month for T-Mobile which is comparable to ATT here (Phoenix area which is big for T-MO).
I get unlimited everything with no throttling. Last month I used about 10GB w/o a hiccup (I may have been going ROM crazy and bypassing all the WIFI restrictions on downloads since I was at work...lol). ROM - LOAD - TEST FOR 2 DAYS - WIPE - NEW ROM - LOAD - REPEAT
T-MO wins.
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I live in a Major metropolitan area.
I pay 70 bucks a month for T-Mobile which is comparable to ATT here (Phoenix area which is big for T-MO).
I get unlimited everything with no throttling. Last month I used about 10GB w/o a hiccup (I may have been going ROM crazy and bypassing all the WIFI restrictions on downloads since I was at work...lol). ROM - LOAD - TEST FOR 2 DAYS - WIPE - NEW ROM - LOAD - REPEAT
T-MO wins.
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Well here in hawaii ill walk into a safeway grocery store and i wont have even signal for calls... i mean none. Make a call and nothing. I gave tmobile up for att. I get 35mb/s and reception almost everywhere. Here att wins
digitard said:
I live in a Major metropolitan area.
I pay 70 bucks a month for T-Mobile which is comparable to ATT here (Phoenix area which is big for T-MO).
I get unlimited everything with no throttling. Last month I used about 10GB w/o a hiccup (I may have been going ROM crazy and bypassing all the WIFI restrictions on downloads since I was at work...lol). ROM - LOAD - TEST FOR 2 DAYS - WIPE - NEW ROM - LOAD - REPEAT
T-MO wins.
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Great. Nobody cares. He was talking about ATT. Relevance: People on ATT. Move on.
khaytsus said:
Great. Nobody cares. He was talking about ATT. Relevance: People on ATT. Move on.
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Haha thanks man you post some news for att customers and somebody bombs it with another carrier.
podagee said:
I just switched from 4gb to 10gb data for a few dollars more. They have a special going on for the 10gb. $100 +15 each line. Att rocks
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Yeah, I've been debating on moving to this plan since it rolled out. I currently have the unlimited data plan, 700 minutes to share between two phones with a rollover bank of about 7000 minutes since we rarely use more than a hundred combined, and unlimited texts and mms. I've been hesitant to switch because, while we are generally under 10 gigs, I sometimes get a little data crazy and we reach between 12-15 gigs combined. Do you know what they charge for overages per gig? Also, I assume that includes unlimited calls and texts? TIA for your reply
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bps119 said:
Yeah, I've been debating on moving to this plan since it rolled out. I currently have the unlimited data plan, 700 minutes to share between two phones with a rollover bank of about 7000 minutes since we rarely use more than a hundred combined, and unlimited texts and mms. I've been hesitant to switch because, while we are generally under 10 gigs, I sometimes get a little data crazy and we reach between 12-15 gigs combined. Do you know what they charge for overages per gig? Also, I assume that includes unlimited calls and texts? TIA for your reply
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Overages is $15 a gb if you go over. If you let them know before you go over you can change your plan to higher data for $10 a gig more. Just go with the 10gb. That should be sufficient enough for 2 people. My wife and i have it we are on separate accounts. Just got it today and im happy that i dont have to worry about going over. Plus if you both are on the same contract you save a lot.
I just went from the 4gb plan on FAM share with 2 phones total. Went on the site to see what its about under my account and it showed my contract was 4gb for 150. It showed I could change to 10gb for 130. I definitely don't use near 10 unless I'm away from WiFi and still don't use near 10 but better to be on the safe side. I read all the fine print and hoopla and I saw nothing of extra charges or drawbacks. Took the 10gb and as I see so far a cheaper bill and more gigs. I see win win.
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Aw, I looked to see if I could upgrade my data plan on my ancient non-existent plan and nope. Ah well.
Eventually one of the newer plans might make more sense, but every time I've done the math in the past, it turns out to be more expensive.
This is the mobile share value plan. If you're out of contract or you have your own phone, you get the 15 dollar pricing instead of 40. Its nothing special tbh
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to me its worth it $130 phone bill for 10gb of data. and the data is crazy fast with att. ive measured a friends phone at work with speedtest and he hits 8mb/s on verizon,my old tmobile was at 7mb/s and with att ive hit 40mb/s. thats high speed data. ITS WORTH IT!!
my opinion.
I called Verizon and said I was looking at switching because ATT had the double the Data deal going and I was tired of paying for less. I buy the 10mb plan, had service for 13 months. They have me a customer loyalty plan which gives me 16mb of data for the same price I was paying for my 10. Just letting you know. If this is public knowledge , sorry for saying your time
They also are not throttling unlimited LTE users anymore and doubled the 20GB plans and higher. I called today and got bumped to 40GB.
Not happy that they cut back on throttling but at 40GB, that's more then I'll need since them most I have ever used was 18GB and about 8GB with my other lines. I cut back for a little while but it looks like I can use more again.
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RHChan84 said:
They also are not throttling unlimited LTE users anymore and doubled the 20GB plans and higher. I called today and got bumped to 40GB.
Not happy that they cut back on throttling but at 40GB, that's more then I'll need since them most I have ever used was 18GB and about 8GB with my other lines. I cut back for a little while but it looks like I can use more again.
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Ricky?
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Ricky?
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Yes it is Rich.
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big70tom said:
I called Verizon and said I was looking at switching because ATT had the double the Data deal going and I was tired of paying for less. I buy the 10mb plan, had service for 13 months. They have me a customer loyalty plan which gives me 16mb of data for the same price I was paying for my 10. Just letting you know. If this is public knowledge , sorry for saying your time
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What kind of plan are you on? Contract, Edge, Family?
I just called. They told me since I was on 10GB I couldn't get double data (AT&T doesn't offer double data on 10GB either) but that I could upgrade to the 12GB plan and get an addition 3GB for a total of 15GB.
Bill used to be ~$180 for 2 lines, 4-6Gb shared (depending how much music I streamed). I called to cancel, told 'em I was lookin' at T-Mobile. They knocked my payments down to $107 for 12 months and $140 for the next 12. I's happy. :cyclops:
EDIT: They also cut me a deal on cancelling my Jetpack.
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Bill used to be ~$180 for 2 lines, 4-6Gb shared (depending how much music I streamed). I called to cancel, told 'em I was lookin' at T-Mobile. They knocked my payments down to $107 for 12 months and $140 for the next 12. I's happy. :cyclops:
EDIT: They also cut me a deal on cancelling my Jetpack.
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We have two LG G3's 10GB Data Everything Plan 113 + Tax a month with my employer discount. No Contract...
I have not been in a contract since the HTC T-Bolt. LOL
Bought the LG's outright (350 Each NIB) and they gave me the Edge discount per line.
Also got two Free LG G3 Battery and Battery Charging Cradles on there way.
Not Bad.
tl;dr everyone on a tiered data plan is getting gouged. It costs Verizon next to nothing to transmit the data (not sure of the exact cost). The minute they force us off unlimited data is the minute I leave for good! Hopefully what worked for OP works for everyone else as well!
I lost unlimited data and do not regret it one bit. I was paying $360ish for 4 lines. I had unlimited and the others had 2GB and in total we use about 24GB so I had to connect to WiFi a bit more when I'm at home. I went with the 20GB plan and since using WiFi, I'm down to a total of 16ish GB. Now I'm paying $300ish.
Well now they doubled bit I still use WiFi at home for better reception and I'm still hovering around the 18GB. Yes I lost unlimited but just because I had unlimited didn't mean i was using it a lot. I'm at 40GB and that's double more then what I have and I don't go near it at all. Even with tethering. I'm also watching more Netflix and Amazon Prime and I can see myself going up to 30ish if I try but I stream music all day.
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I lost unlimited data and do not regret it one bit. I was paying $360ish for 4 lines. I had unlimited and the others had 2GB and in total we use about 24GB so I had to connect to WiFi a bit more when I'm at home. I went with the 20GB plan and since using WiFi, I'm down to a total of 16ish GB. Now I'm paying $300ish.
Well now they doubled bit I still use WiFi at home for better reception and I'm still hovering around the 18GB. Yes I lost unlimited but just because I had unlimited didn't mean i was using it a lot. I'm at 40GB and that's double more then what I have and I don't go near it at all. Even with tethering. I'm also watching more Netflix and Amazon Prime and I can see myself going up to 30ish if I try but I stream music all day.
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Yea I can care less about unlimited data anymore... I just don't ever want to be in a contract. I can walk whenever...
40 for $150. Woohooo
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If your in the city, any really ... Chicago New York ect you got so many WiFi hotspots... I just recently moved into the city from the suburbs and in the suburbs having unlimited data was a godsend but here in the city don't really matter. I still do enjoy the fact that I have unlimited data for the purpose of sticking it to the man as they say
Verizon customer still got the grandfathered in unlimited data
I have a heretical question: Should I keep my unlimited data if I'm not really using it.
My wife and I have unlimited data, kids are on 2GB plans.
My wife uses max 1.5 - 2 GB a month over the past 6 months. I use average of 8GB/month, high of 12 GB, low of 4 GB over past six months. My big data use is videos while on the elliptical at the gym. I can only work out so much, so unlikely my usage will ever get any higher. I don't stream much music at all. Stream some talk radio in the car since local reception sucks. I've never needed to do any heavy tethering, don't see that changing either.
So it seems we could easily be on an 18GB or 20 GB plan ($100 or $120 month plus $20/line). Assume 3GB for each son (they get a data upgrade), 2 GB for wife, leaving 10 or 12 for me depending on 18 or 20 GB plan.
That saves us about $95 a month. Of course then we pay full price for our own phones....if we compare the 2 year cost assuming upgrading on current plan for ~$200 a person vs. buying phones for the four of us, comes out to about $350 year cheaper for the new Verizon plan. Not big money at all, but I could find other things to spend it on.
So my question is this - if I'm not currently and never have really used my unlimited data to any great extent should I still care about it and pay more for it for the future? Are there changes to how data is used on phones and how phones use data coming down the line where I might say "Oh man, crazy of me to give up unlimited data!"
Or is this a simple $ calculation? If it's cheaper to go to the Verizon plan and I don't need the unlimited data, let it go.
Appreciate any thoughts/advice about this. Thanks!
My advice would be to keep your unlimited plan, if you can. Verizon does not do contracts any more, but makes you pay bigger monthly installments. But the time 2 years have passed, you will have bought the phone anyway. What I'm liking doing is buying a phone I like, and putting it on my (limited) plan, and switching phones whenever I want something new/different. No contracts, same $$$.
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