Old plan switch

[Paradyne]

I’m on a old plan called “ The new Verizon Plan Unlimited”. It’s $190 for 4 lines. VZ just increased the rate by $2 a line.
What plan would you switch to? I don’t qualify for any military, 1st Responder or enterprise discount.

[kaZZoo]

https://www.verizon.com/plans/unlimited/

[brad15]

5G Do More if you trave, 5G Do more if you want streaming services

But keep in mind, those are still $45/mo per line each, so you're not really saving much.

You may also want to look at just swapping to Visible. $25/mo for unlimted talk/text/data/5Mbps hotspot (always depri) or $35/mo per line for unlimited with 50GB/mo of priority data.

Even total is cheaper:

https://www.totalbyverizon.com/plans

i'm not sure why Verizon is doing all these odd MVNO instead of just adjusting their Verizon proper plan pricing to market forces, but look around and see what works best for your situation.

[PaulCrawhorne]

They want to keep the Verizon brand's reputation for quality so they can keep charging as much of a premium as the (shrinking) non-poor market will bear.

The MVNO-like brands will continue to be avoided by status-seekers, people that want / need better service, corporate hand-holding, especially in B&M stores

No way I could use Visible as my primary for out & about, gets way too slow at rush hour

the truly unlimited hotspotting is the only compelling competitive feature

we use it for time-shifting downloads, average 600-800GB rather than paying for any TV / media / streaming feeds

[brad15]

I have a SIM with the most expensive Verizon plan, and I'm comparing it to Visible+

I genuinely cannot tell a difference even during "peak" times between the two accounts. I am also in pretty heavily covered C-Band area as well, so i'm sure that's helping that.

But even traveling around for work, the hotel i'm at is LTE only for Verizon tonight, and the speeds are generally within 1Mbps of eachother.

[DRC72]

I have a SIM with the most expensive Verizon plan, and I'm comparing it to Visible+

I genuinely cannot tell a difference even during "peak" times between the two accounts. I am also in pretty heavily covered C-Band area as well, so i'm sure that's helping that.

But even traveling around for work, the hotel i'm at is LTE only for Verizon tonight, and the speeds are generally within 1Mbps of eachother.

You’ll probably see the difference in a more congested area.

[Orlimar1]

We're sticking with ours. Even with the price increase we'll still only be paying like $37 per line all in since we have 10 lines. Next year when they turn on all their new spectrum, hopefully the network will be amazing again.

[brad15]

You’ll probably see the difference in a more congested area.

On +, I cannot tell. On the regular Visible plan, there was definately a difference (It worked like Start unlmited)

Being in/around airports/hotels on a regular.. Verizon is the worst one performance wise usually due to congestion so I can usually tell how hard a SIM is depri within a week of getting it.

[PaulCrawhorne]

On + that advantage goes away once you've used the first 50GB

[CellularCowboy]

That's not entirely true. Verizon and other major providers love those MNVOs. The way a provider works is that they build and maintain an infrastructure. The service plans sold regardless as to the size of it doesn't actually factor into the pricing of the infrastructure however their is a cost for things like customer service, shipping free phones, financial services, printing bills, etc.

However, when they sell services to an MNVO for distribution, they no longer have to foot the cost of customer service, bill printing, etc. All they do is simply collect the money from these MNVO's. I was still at Verizon when we bought out Tracfone and the only reason we did that was to establish a larger foothold on the prepaid customer base...nothing more. It also eliminated customers from ATT and Tmobile because now the agents have to buy sims from Verizon only

[brad15]

On + that advantage goes away once you've used the first 50GB

Right, but OP's plan is depri after 22GB/line, so Visible+ would still be a better deal in that regard.

[johnothy]

I've heard if you have the Visible+ plan it is equivalent to the same priority data as Verizon postpaid plans with the 50GB of data. What are the hotspot speeds with Visible if you have 5G UW?

[PaulCrawhorne]

Hotspot throttling is supposed to be 5Mbps no matter how fast the on-phone data might be.

[brad15]

It's capped at 5/5. I've used over 100GB on that alone this month and it's worked great for a single use situation. I would not put multiple devices on it (I'm using it on my MacBook Air and iPad Mini at the same time with no issues)

It also seems to allow things like YouTube and Netflix to run at full speed while tethering as long as you're in a C-Band/mmWave area, even over hotspot. Only the file downloads seem truly capped at 5Mbps.