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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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bd8371

Dec 9, 2010, 11:30 AM

A good start but......

Still too expensive. At&t Go phone offers the same $2 a day on the days used and includes text messages(international also). The pay by the minute plan is just 10 cents a minute (no daily fee also). The Go phones also come with $15-$50 credit not $10.

acdc1a

All of the majors offer a better prepaid product than Verizon. I'm still pretty convinced that they don't want to play in this field.

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muchdrama

Dec 9, 2010, 4:59 PM

Geezus, Verizon--

--get with the program. Your poo stinks just like the other carriers'. So price accordingly.

Azeron

Ah, but Verizon will cleverly market their dung as high grade fertilizer and charge a premium for it. Sort of like Pantech and Kyocera phones (when they've sold them).

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glinc

Dec 9, 2010, 10:36 AM

Still expensive....

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 its good for people who needs it for emergency.

Azeron

Way to go T-Mo!

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muchdrama

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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T Bone

How is $100 for 1,000 minutes which are good for a year a better deal than $80 for 2,000 minutes which are also good for a year?

mkl4466

With verizon prepaid, $100 reload also has a one year expiration date. On the 25cent per minute plan, that works out 400 minutes. Depending on where you live/travel, For emergency use only it might be better to have four hundred minutes on verizon's b...
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GravityFails

Dec 9, 2010, 12:24 PM

All Wrong

The $.99-per-day plan has not changed. It still offers M2M and $.10 for all other calls, plus $.10 for all text messages, exactly as it did before.

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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Azeron

What's wrong is arguing over who has the best pre-paid offering. Who cares? Since when are AT&T and Verizon seriously competing for these customers? You want to be the CEO who tells investors that he has lowered ARPU chasing after the pre-paid segm...
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Britbratxxnicole

Also the $.99 one offers N&W again, whereas they didn't before

Britbratxxnicole

Dec 10, 2010, 1:04 PM

Umm..

Aren't these the same exact plans as the old ones? 🤣

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