For those of you who are planning to get the Palm Pre Plus or Palm Pixi Plus, you might want to opt for Verizon Unlimited Texting Plans. The cheapest unlimited messaging plan requires $20 monthly that gives you all you can eat messaging within Verizon Wireless plus 5000 if you text to or from other carriers. You can add this option to any existing voice plan. $79.99 Verizon unlimited messaging plan includes 900 anytime voice minutes and texting to anyone is free. Well, the regular 900 minute plan without text message goes for $59.99. So additional $20 can truly offer you unlimited Verizon texting to and from any carrier.
If you need a bit more minutes to use, $89.99 unlimited talk and text plan is the best bang for the buck - you can totally forget restricting calling during the day. What would I do with this unlimited plan? I would cancel all my landlines and live with the mobile phone only. So, which Verizon Wireless unlimited texting plan are you planning to sign up when you pick up the new Pre Plus?
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You forgot that there’s a mandatory unlimited data plan for all smartphones on Verizon, that adds another $30 to the bill, making it still significantly more expensive than Sprint’s plans for the Pre. (Assuming of course, that you don’t live in a location that needs Big Red’s network without Sprint’s roaming on it.)
Everyone be careful of the unlimtted talk plan. I have 5 phones on my plan. I called a verizon rep to ask how I could save on my bill. She told me I could save $20/month by switching from the 2000 min plan to the unlimitted. My next bill was $160 more than I expected because she never informed me about the $40/line additional fee for making the change. The supervisor wouldn’t credit me the money and instead said that her notes tells her that the agent did inform me about this (which she didn’t otherwise I wouldn’t have changed. Yeah, I’m not stupid!) But anyway the girls who sold me on the plan obviously did the right then, because it was in the supervisor’s notes (sarcasm obviously!). So becareful I have been a faithful verizon customer for over 5 years. I have always paid on time, and I have bills ranging from $300-1500/month. I would have expected better treatment. Guess they don’t really take care of their own.
For over 5 years my family was with Altel with a family plan (4 phones) that included unlimited texting. This included domestic and international texting. We never had a problem with the billing. Verizon comes along and buys out Altel. For the first year everything was fine. Then last April 2010, my wife and I extended our Altel plan two years that included the unlimited texting. We verified with the rep. and were told we still had the same Altel plan as this was way better than what Verizon plans offered. For the next 10 months all was gerat, free unlimited texts. Well in Jan 2011 Verizon warned all of us customers that starting in a few months, international texting was no longer free. They were changing our contract WITHOUT our permission. Hey, what does FREE UNLIMITED TEXT MESSAGES mean? On talking to my lawyers, I was informed that what Verizon did was possible ILLEGAL and against South Carolina law.
So for all of you that text internationally and have unlimited texting, you might want to talk to your lawyer to see if the charges are in fact illegal. Free UNLIMITED TEXT MESSAGES means free. It doesn’t identify domestic vs international. Do I hear a class action lawsuite??