Plans: With plans ranging from pre-paid, family plans, individual and business plans, they also offer several to meet your calling needs. They do offer a free basic phone with most plans, but if you want anything that uses data, web or video, you have to pay for it yourself. Many of the plans charge roaming rates when you call outside your service area. The good news is that you can make a call from out of state, but the bad news is you will pay a different rate for that call than you will from calls made in your coverage area. Plans available:
- Its Friends & Family option offers unlimited calling to a select group of numbers, even landlines.
- Claims to have the largest 3G Coverage network nationwide.
- Uses BREW instead of Java for games and other applications, which can limit the number of choices available to consumers.
- Verizon claims it has the most reliable network nationwide, and the network quality has been rated highly in consumer and analyst studies.
- As a CDMA carrier, Verizon's international coverage is limited to a handful of countries but it offers dual-mode CDMA/GSM handsets.
- Small discount if you have Verizon FIOS as your TV, Home Phone and Internet provide and bundle your cell phone as their Quad play.
- Leveraging its 3G EVDO data network, Verizon offers multimedia features with its exclusive VCast service. Rip off in my opinion and waste of money.
- Verizon was ranked atop JD Power's 2007 retail satisfaction survey.
- We recommended you monitor your text messaging usage closely and get on an unlimited plan so you don't get charged the outrageous .25 cents per message if you go over.
- Their hot new featured phone looks to be the new Driod with its' Android operating system.
- Launching LTE has their 4G platform.
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Verizon Wireless Offer no roaming and no long distance with all its plans. So who ever wrote the review doesn't know what their talking about. Verizon is not the cheapest out there but it does work in more place than any other Cell phone provider, you get what you pay for.
Once upon a time, many years ago, I had a Verizon plan that charged more for out-of-state calls. In those days, I had to get the more expensive plan when I traveled out of state - then switched back when I was in state. So maybe the review info is just really old. For the past ten years or so, all my US and Canada calls have been included in the basic price.
Just make sure you get coverage in your neighborhood. About 3 months ago, our signal went to zilch. we've had dropped calls and choppy voice quality. We've been working with Verizon to get a "network booster" (at our cost) to restore some kind of quality (in our house), but still no luck. While their customer service is polite, the final test is: does it work? Answer: not yet, after about 20 calls. We are about to switch.
I left T-Mobile after being a customer for 5 years to try Verizon, because they were suppose to get better coverage where my Cabin is located in Northern Wisconsin. What a mistake! The customer service at Verizon was horrible. They were rude, didn't want to give me the Promotion Deal that was advertised in their stores and on TV! Also, they have hidden fees that they do not tell you about. There hidden fees rack up to about $65 more dollars than what their package plan states! They have surcharges for everything! To make a long story short, I went back to T-Mobile. T-Mobile offered me upgraded phones $279 a piece for free just to come back to them! Then they gave me a 12% Teacher Discount off my monthly bills. I love T-Mobile, and will never leave them again. P.S. Verizon's Cell Phone did not get coverage at my cabin in Wisconsin either. So why pay their high fee?
Ted: I have experienced the SAME problems you are discussing. Even service on the main highways has decreased significantly. Very disappointing! I was an Alltel customer prior to the merger and was VERY SATISFIED with Alltel.
We started with AllTel because they were the only ones that had anything that worked in our area of Northern WI. Then they became Verizon and it slipped a bit. We have now moved to the San Diego, CA area with Verizon and it really sucks. Checking around our apartment complex and neighborhood, nobody gets good Verizon service. Dropped calls, calls don't come through at all, text messages take 4-16 hours to come through, half a bar strength at best. Customer and tech service admit there is no coverage in this area and someday they might build a tower to improve it. Oh goodie. That'll really help us now. Customer service said to go get a new "Verizon" phone (and a new contract) and see if that will help. Yeah, right. In a battle now to get out of the contract. We'll see what happens.
half the stuff in this article is simply incorrect. I used verizon back in 2004 and roamed 90% of the time and never had any extra charges over the standard monthly rate.