Verizon Matches Cost of AT&T's 10GB Shared Plan
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Apr 2, 2014, 2:35 PM by Eric M. Zeman
Verizon Wireless has quietly lowered the price it charges More Everything smartphone customers with a 10GB (or higher) bucket. In effect, the price has been dropped to $160 per month for four smartphones using a 10GB data allotment. The price now matches exactly that charged by AT&T for the same number of lines and same amount of data. AT&T reconfigured its Mobile Share plans in February and has been advertising them heavily.
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To think Verizon matched AT&T's 10GB plain is wrong.
To think Verizon matched AT&T's 10GB plain is wrong because AT&T continues the discounts after the phone are paid off and Verizon discontinues the discount after the phones are paid off. And AT&T also offers the discount if you use your own equipment and Verizon does not. The end result is you will pay more than $160. unless your phones are paid off and that will not help with Verizon because you lose the discount then.
Yeah but you aren't going to keep those phones. You'll upgrade.
Verizon is misleading, as always
It still *requires* Verizon EDGE. Thus, making it more expensive than AT&T when a phone is owned outright.
AT&T doesn't require Next, and truly is $160 when there are no device payments.
It's really not that expensive. Being on Verizon Edge with a 10 GB+ plan also gives you a $20 credit per device on Edge. So if you're regular Edge pricing with say a 3 GB plan the phone is $25, on the 10 GB plan it's only $5. By going to the 10 GB pla...
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