Comments on: Verizon promoting prepaid service in NYC

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:52:03 +0000

This new Straight talk package is definitely the cheapest and best offer on the market. When you think about it, it works out to 2 cents per minute and 1 cent per text then the data works out free!

By: Peter Kent

Peter Kent — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:42:04 +0000

Sorry, cut off on last entry. VZ prepaid charges $30 a month for just having access to call others on their network and that’s it. Everything else is nickeled and dimed out of ya (with a couple of exceptions). They even have a $25 service activation charge if you buy their phones online.

VZ prepaid is no value.

By: Peter Kent

Peter Kent — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:38:16 +0000

Looks like they are using shoe string ways to promote their not so shoe string (read relatively pricey) prepad offerings. They are simply highlighting their Verizon Wireless prepaid 99 cents a day Core plan. Nothing new here.

The core plan, you can’t even call anyone outside of Verizon until they take out their 99 cents access fee.
The only people you can talk to are other Verizon users. If you want to call outside the network it’s 10 cents a minute.

Page Plus with its 12 cents and less flat minutes, 39.95 1500 minutes/1500 text plan and 2.49 a day unlimited plans blow anything away that Verizon Prepaid has. VZ prepaid’s real pluses are brand recognition, dollar a day unlimited data (but not on smartphones)
and unlimited message packs.

Straight Talk by Tracfone is even cheaper, $30 for 1000 minutes/1000 messages/30 megs web on the pre Alltel merger Verizon prepaid network.

Page Plus has an equal network and a better price. Straight Talk is way cheaper then all of them but has a lesser version of the VZ prepaid network (no roaming option at all).

But they both beat Verizon prepaid in value.

That’s $30 a month for just having access to calling 80