Verizon unveils new pay-as-you-go plans

If you’ve ever checked out the user comments on our Verizon Wireless review, you might have noticed a lot of griping about the 99 cents per day access fee that goes along with their INpulse pay-as-you-go plan. Well, those gripes might get a bit louder today. Verizon has introduced two more prepaid plans to better fit a larger number of subscribers, which sounds good on the surface. The catch: There are access fees for both of these new plans, and they ain’t cheap. We’re talking $1.99 and $2.99 per day. So, tell us Verizon, what are you going to give us for a minimum of $59.70 or $89.70 per month?

The INpulse plan you know and (don’t) love is now deemed the INpulse Core plan, and it’s the same as you remember it. Access fee of 99 cents per day, unlimited night minutes, unlimited IN calling, and 10 cents per minute and text.

The INpulse Plus plan charges an access fee of $1.99 per day, so you’re looking at $59.70 for a 30-day month. The same unlimited IN calling and night minute features still apply. But for your extra dollar per day, you drop call rates to five cents per minute, and five cents per text.

The other plan is the INpluse Power, which charges the $2.99 daily fee, so $89.70 for a 30-day month. Same deal as the others with the IN calling and the night minutes, but calls are billed at 2 cents per minute.

So unless you’re talking a whole ton — and we mean you need to talk a ton to make these deals worth it — you’re better off going with their Easy Pay plan, or just going with another prepaid provider.

The best part of this roll out, though this might have been the case before, is that if you spend more than $15 on initial airtime, you get a subsidy equal to that of someone signing a one-year contract. A Verizon representative tells us that’s $50. Not a bad deal, especially considering the high cost of Verizon phones.

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5 Responses

1. Terrylee Childress Says
   

   I think Prepaid now sucks!
   I went over 30 miles one day to get the Easy Pay Plan $50 a month.
   They had discontinued it!
   So I’m selling my chocolate now

   
   Posted on December 31st, 2007 at 11:06 pm
2. MELISSA Says
   

   HEY!!I JUST WANTED TO KNO IF VERIZON WIRELESS HAVE TEXT MESSAGIN PLANS. AS YOU CAN SEE I LOVE TEXTING. MOST OF MY MONEY GOES RIGHT THERE. SO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.

   
   Posted on January 30th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
3. vince Says
   

   yup i think you should check this out read this before you waste time and money !

   
   Posted on June 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
4. poop nuggets Says
   

   Alltel is better!!!(=

   
   Posted on January 2nd, 2010 at 2:22 am
5. Ryan Freman Says
   

   I went with verizon and What a waste of Money! Net10 is a true unlimited service. I am happy with Net10 and going to stick with it. I can’t believe verizon!

   
   Posted on March 24th, 2012 at 7:39 pm

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