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Verizon to Launch $50 Prepaid Plan On Thursday

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If this offered BETTER PHONES, Verizon would SINK everybody....

tether

Sep 14, 2011, 11:03 AM
Verizon has the best native network with ATT on it's heals. Data-wise, coast to coast 3G coverage nationwide, Verizon smokes anyone else. The fact that the minor amount of roaming you do with Verizon is not included would not be an issue for most. The problem is, THESE PHONES ARE AWFUL!! Seriously Verizon, you would sink Boost, Virgin, Straight Talk, ATT Go Phones & basically any prepaid deal if you would at least allow some basic smartphones on this deal. I understand the rationale behind not allowing 4G LTE Devices or even upper-end Androids, Blackberries and Iphones on this deal but maybe a basic Android phone like the Motorola Citrus & some basic Nokia Smartphones would be great. You would hear Ross Perot's "sucking sound" of customers ...
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tether

Sep 14, 2011, 11:10 AM
I would tell everyone I know about this if Verizon even offered up some low end smartphones. Leave the premier 4G/LTE stuff and high-end 3G stuff for postpaid only so they can make more on that. Boost, Virgin, Straight Talk, Net10, T-Mobile, Simple Mobile, Cricket, MetroPCS & ATT Prepaid would have to pay a lot of OT to employees to accomodate all the "port-out" requests to Verizon. I would guess they would pick up 30-40 million customers if they would just allow low-end smarthphone like the Motorola Citrus, LG Vortex, older Blackberry Models, a few older Nokia Smartphones, a few Sony-Ericsson lower end models, etc. The converts to VZW would see how good the network is and stay with them or if they desire higher-end equipment switch to a p...
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Researcher

Sep 14, 2011, 12:23 PM
You can use most of these already on Page Plus Cellular and still have the VZW network.
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Mark_S

Sep 14, 2011, 1:19 PM
If you are into flashing CDMA phones to PagePlus.
They charge $.29/minute roaming.
Like was said previously, even the native Verizon coverage only minus the roaming is very good.
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