Anyone switched from Verizon, and find great coverage but cheaper price?
Hi all, we're a family of 2, paying close to $150/month for our two phones with Verizon. Coverage is admittedly great, but it seems the price keeps increasing. Of course we see the ads about alternate brands. Has anyone made the switch from Verizon and found great coverage,but at a lower price? What was your experience? Thanks for your input and recommendations.
Aug 12, 2017
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Project Fi from Google has been amazing. Cheap, no contract, great phones, amazing coverage, and rollover & pay-per-use data.
I switched from AT&T to Google's Project Fi and have been quite happy. Here is the coverage map: https://fi.google.com/coverage. It also supports calls over Wi-Fi. My monthly payment for two phones went from about $150 to $80. The only catch is that you have to buy one of a few phones that is compatible with Project Fi. They are releasing additional phones this fall. Here is my referral code if you want to try it (gives you $20 credit after a month): https://g.co/fi/r/FVU2H3
I'm not sure this counts as "great," but we are on T-Mobile prepaid plans and find it perfectly fine. It is not quite as good as Verizon, but it is very much worth it for the lower cost. Our plan no longer officially exists through T-Mobile, so to get it, you apparently now have to buy a T-Mobile sim card from Walmart (oh the hoops they make you jump through!) But it is $30/30 days for 5 GB of data and 100 minutes of talk time (plus unlimited texts). Well worth it for me. If you need more data or talk time than that, definitely check out the prepaid offerings of all of the carriers to see if there's something cheaper. You do have to bring your own phone to those plans, but I found it paid for itself pretty quickly vs. the contracts that include "free" phones.