Category: Let's talk
I am under Verizon Wireless and have what is called a smart plan.
120 peak minutes
or
talk time during week days
10 Friends and family
unlimited
texting
data
nights from 7 PM to 7 AM
&weekends
there are two phones on this plan: so there is an extra fee for that.
The two of us splits the bill and its not as expensive as it was before: about $80 each.
SO
What is your plan?
Hmm, do you have to have a SmartPhone for this plan? I imagine you do. I did not realize Verizon now offered free minutes starting at 7:00 PM. I knew a lot of other companies did it, but last I had heard, Verizon's didn't start till 9:00. I am a Verizon customer, and will have to call them tomorrow and ask about that.
Right now, I have 900 peak minutes, and 5 on my friends and family, I think. I've only got 250 texts, but that's okay, cuz I've never even come close to using them all. I've never really come that close to using all my 900 minutes, either, at least not lately. Over the last year, I'd been doing a lot of traveling, which is why I'd upgraded my minutes. But now that I'm not, I might bring it back down again. It's cheaper that way. LOL.
Verizon's plans aren't always as good as some companies I've seen, but those other companies also have lousier customer service. I've never had a bad customer service experience with Verizon, so am more than willing to stay with them.
2 lines
700 minutes, unlimited in-calling.
each line has 250 text/pix/flix
Each phone has unlimited data, no downloads though.
I use to have the 1400 minute plan with 10 friends & family, but we really weren't using the minutes.
Sister Dawn
I agree about the custermer service they are grate on Verizon. If your getting 900 minutes, then you should be getting 10 friends and families as well. I am under a smart plan like I said and I have an Altell plan, but if you tell them your thinking of switching to a different provider, I am sure they will give you nearly what ever you want.
Pokadots and moon beams
How are you getting 700 minutes and unlimited? do you mean unlimited night and week ends?
Hi I'm on Vorizon's basic plan, 450 minutes plus free nights/weekends. Also, I have 250 txts/month. So far, I like this plan. I've never used my phone out of my calling area, but have heard that Vorizon has excellent coverage. What do you guys think? I almost got a smart phone, but didn't want to pay the extra $30/month for internet when I already have a laptop. Perhaps in the future, I'll get one.
I mean unlimited mobile to mobile and nights and weekends. Mobile to mobile, as in other vzw customers.
My 700 minutes are regular week day, daytime minutes.
VZW's coverage is the main reason I have stuck with them. Well, and most of my family have Verizon as well. *smile*
Wow to the Verizon customer service issues!
I had a phone back in 2005 / 2006 thereabouts and Verizon was positively horrible! We got the three-phone plan so each of us had a phone, and went without a landline. However, any time I wanted to talk to them about getting a phone that talked, they wanted to get me a "hearing impaired" phone, they lost my certification form for their free 411 service, sent me the wrong manual for the phone (the first was in print, the second finally in Braille), and finally they did come up with putting the manuals on the web. All this after being recommended to them on the basis of accessibility because of some lawsuit that theoretically happened. About useless.
Anyway I'm not one to complain about accessibility much, but man, they seemed to go out of their way to be difficult every opportunity they got. We took their plans because they were the best suited for the three of us, and I just memorized most of what I needed on that silly LG 4500 though when its speech died while I was running a coffee shop, that was pretty bad. That and my customers needed to submit orders by texts.
I don't have a cell now, and won't get one till I can pay the extra to get a screen reader for it, and will probably buy it unlocked / jailbroken (or unlock / jailbreak it myself), either that or get an iPhone.
The major problem is the messaging phones don't do speech, it seems, only the smart phones, which understandably required quite a bit more for the phone and the plan. So were I not poor at the time, I could have been an early Symbian or Windows Mobile adopter.
Anyway not to rag on the access thing: We're pretty happy with our daughter's TMobile plan with unlimited texts and a friends / family type thing. The wife will be next in line to get one, though she's more adamant than even Tiff about not wanting a touch device, well almost, so probably a Symbian Series 60 or Series 80 phone.
That's good Verizon was good to some of you all, maybe you startted later but in either case that's a good thing.