Verizon confirms plans including price hikes, more data & added perks
Verizon on Wednesday officially announced its rumored new cellphone plans, launching July 7, which are costlier but in some cases include perks previously found only at other carriers, like rollover data.
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As suggested, the carrier's updated S and M plans are now $5 more per month but also include an extra gigabyte of data each, pushing their caps to 2 and 4 gigabytes respectively.
Prices for L, XL, and XXL plans have all been raised by $10 -- to $70, $90, and $110 -- but with bigger leaps in data. L has grown from 6 to 8 gigabytes, while XL has jumped from 12 to 16, and XXL has risen from 18 to 24.
All five plans now offer "Carryover Data," an equivalent to rollover perks from AT&T and T-Mobile. This allows unused data from one month to raise caps in the next.
Through a new MyVerizon app, people on XL and XXL plans can toggle on a free "Safety Mode," eliminating overage fees but throttling speeds to 128 kilobits per second once a monthly cap is hit. Customers on S, M, or L plans will have to pay $5 per month for the privilege.
Two other perks -- unlimited calling to Canada and Mexico, and applying U.S. voice, text, and data limits while visiting those countries -- are also free only to XL and XXL customers. The first otherwise costs $5 per month, while the second is $2 per day.
Verizon has been slow to match some of the plan changes at rival U.S. carriers, but may have to adapt given shrinking differences in coverage.
![](http://photos.appleinsidercdn.com/gallery/17476-15041-iphonese-blackhand-l.jpg)
As suggested, the carrier's updated S and M plans are now $5 more per month but also include an extra gigabyte of data each, pushing their caps to 2 and 4 gigabytes respectively.
Prices for L, XL, and XXL plans have all been raised by $10 -- to $70, $90, and $110 -- but with bigger leaps in data. L has grown from 6 to 8 gigabytes, while XL has jumped from 12 to 16, and XXL has risen from 18 to 24.
All five plans now offer "Carryover Data," an equivalent to rollover perks from AT&T and T-Mobile. This allows unused data from one month to raise caps in the next.
Through a new MyVerizon app, people on XL and XXL plans can toggle on a free "Safety Mode," eliminating overage fees but throttling speeds to 128 kilobits per second once a monthly cap is hit. Customers on S, M, or L plans will have to pay $5 per month for the privilege.
Two other perks -- unlimited calling to Canada and Mexico, and applying U.S. voice, text, and data limits while visiting those countries -- are also free only to XL and XXL customers. The first otherwise costs $5 per month, while the second is $2 per day.
Verizon has been slow to match some of the plan changes at rival U.S. carriers, but may have to adapt given shrinking differences in coverage.
Comments
I'm happy enough with TMO here in the States, thank you very much.
I'm still on a plan that I got from 2008 which has 6GB of data for $30 (on top of my plan price), so I pay $100 per month for an iPhone 4 (yup!) with 3 voicemail messages, no international texting, no long distance. But I got my 6GB of data, and tethering!
If and when I change phones, I'd need to switch to a plan that costs the same with less data. That's a hard pill to swallow.
AT&T works fine for me but TMO will be cheaper and best of all gives free unlimited (slow) data and texts in many countries. Having spent some family vacations in fairly exotic places with no phone no data no text, this will be awesome. Last time in Japan our AirBnB came with a mobile hotspot that we carried around but dang it will be nice for all of us to be able to properly use our phones for keeping in touch, GPS, etc. (yes, too cheap/not sufficiently well off to pay AT&T overseas data prices - they're sick)
Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
Ah, but you get rollover!!!
The plan includes rollover of up to 20GB of data, and with "BingeOn", Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and a ton of other providers do not count against your 6GB limit. Music streaming from most providers also does not count against your data.
They will also reimburse your early termination fees, but if you're using an iPhone 4 I suspect you won't have any...
Verizon for me never really got it. People didn't want to count their minutes on their phone 10 years ago, and they don't want to worry about overage fees on data now. Verizon (and AT&T) is simply about gouging it's customers and the non sense about being "Rich Man's service (or business man's service)" is nothing but just marketing.