Verizon Wireless Adjusts Daily Prepaid Plan Rates
Dec 9, 2010, 9:24 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Verizon Wireless has reduced the daily access fee of its prepaid plans for feature phones. Verizon's base plan stays the same, which charges no daily access fee, but costs 25 cents per voice minute and 20 cents per text message. The plan with a daily $0.99 fee buys users unlimited voice calls to other Verizon phones, with night and weekend minutes and text messages costing 10 cents each. The $1.99 daily plan provides users with unlimited voice minutes for the day, and drops the charge for text messages from 5 cents to 2 cents each. The $3.99 plan has been eliminated entirely. These rates don't apply to smartphones. Users can purchase text messaging bundles for $10 or $20.
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A good start but......
Geezus, Verizon--
Still expensive....
Look at T-mobile on the other hand, with $100 you get 1000minutes and last you the whole year and its good for people who needs it for emergency.
glinc said:...
No matter how "competitive" VZW wants to stay in the prepaid market, they are by far still the most expensive one.
Look at T-mobile on the other hand, with $100 you get 1000minutes and last you the whole year and i
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All Wrong
What's changed is the $1.99 plan, which used to offer M2M, N&W, and $.05 for all other calls, plus $.05 for all text messages. Now it offers unlimited calling all the time, plus $.02 for all texts. So how has the price for texts increased, as claimed in the news post?
What's gone is the $3.99 plan, which used to offer the exact same thing as the NEW $1.99 plan, only with $.01 texts. They didn't raise the price of per-use messaging on the $3.99 plan, they simply eliminated the $3.99 plan and lowered the messaging rates on the $1.99 plan (from $.05 to $.02), along with adding unlimited talk...
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