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Fyi, these new plans are a REALLY bad deal a lot of the time. For instance, I'd be paying twice as much under the new plans. (5 dumbphones, 700 minutes)

Keep in mind that prepaid carriers are offering much better deals, depending on what your usage is. (ex: for 4 dumbphones and 1 smartphone, with my family's usage, I'd pay $130 through Verizon currently, $210 under the new plans, or $70/month through tmobile prepaid. Factor in the costs of the phones, and how much you'd have to pay upfront through Verizon, plus the verizon activation fees and the fact that a decent vzw dumbphone is $70 and $50 on tmobile, and in my case it'd be same either way... Yes, and one's contact and one's not.)

Very bad deal. It's only good if you really want to add more devices, but I don't need to. Very bad move, Verizon.

Head for Sprint, Sprint had better get ready for a lot of new subscribers.

LiveBrianD, on 13 June 2012 - 10:13 AM, said:

Check out Net 10 for good prepaid dumb phones. I pay $30 every 2 moths for 300 mins.
It comes down to nickel text messages and 10 cent calls.
Plus my minutes roll over every month. I use mine mainly for emergencies so this works out great and dirt cheap for me.
I think they have some smart phones now but havent looked at the prices recently.
Anyway, something you might want to look into. May save you more money, just according to what your family needs are.

Go with Straight Talk Plan, buy your own smartphone and go with their "Bring Your Own Phone" plan....I have the Samsung Galaxy Note through Straight Talk and pay 40 a month for unlimited callling, texting and web....Also Net 10 has a bring your own phone program for 45 dollars a month!

TPBGirl, on 13 June 2012 - 11:27 AM, said:

The problem with that is when the minutes expire. For instance, the $100 plan lasts for 6 months. (I'm sure that no one in my family will be able to use that up before the expiration date.) Tmobile's $100 plan (1000 min) expires in a year.

I can't wait to see the damage the iPhone inflicts on Virgin Mobile USA's network.

By far Straight Talk is the better deal at $45 for Unlimited everything (completely uncapped). With the ablity to bring your sim capable iPhones over to them now there really is no reason not to purchase an unlocked device from Apple and go forth and save money while getting the same service because you are using the big boy's towers anyway.

By far Straight Talk is the better deal at $45 for Unlimited everything (completely uncapped). With the ablity to bring your sim capable iPhones over to them now there really is no reason not to purchase an unlocked device from Apple and go forth and save money while getting the same service because you are using the big boy's towers anyway.