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Originally Posted by toddao
I'm considering a switch from Verizon to Consumer Cellular to save a little money. I currently pay about $130/mo (including taxes and fees) for two phones. It appears I can switch to CS for about $50 - $60 with 10GB of data. Consumer Reports rates them #1.
If you are using Consumer Cellular, how do you like it? Data speed, customer service, voice/text response time, etc.
Thanks for your input.
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In this month’s Consumer Reports (September issue) there is an article called “How to Save Up to $1,000 a Year on Your Cell Phone Plan.” I’ve pasted in a paragraph from page 42 (sorry—it got rained on). There is a company called Visible, wholly owned by Verizon, that offers UNLIMITED Data, Text, and Phone for your phone, Prepaid, for $40 a month, including all fees and taxes. If you have four phones on the account, it is only $100 a month total, and they don’t have to be in the same household. The carrier is the Verizon network, so you should have the same coverage as Verizon, which is good. It also includes a Mobile Hotspot on your phone that lets other phones or iPads use your phone system when they are nearby and signed in. So, for example, if I have my phone with me in my car or cart and this thing is on, I can also connect my iPad to it by Bluetooth and get unlimited date for that, as well, so I can use Waze or Google Maps on a much larger screen for no extra charge, or stream Netflix on my iPad in the car.
I signed up yesterday. It was very easy. Visible can do this because they charge your credit card of choice directly on the first of every month, so they don’t have to worry about when or whether you are going to pay. They also don’t maintain thousands of stores in strip malls like Verizon does. You have to sign up online at visible.com. If you sign up, you keep the same phone number unless you want a different one. Visible will send you a little SIM card by FedEx, you put it into your phone and turn it back on, and that’s about it. Visible will then contact your old company and stop the service for that phone As of that moment and transfer the number. You might have an interruption of service for five minutes, but that’s all. Your old company will send you a refund in good time.
This seems to me to be just about the best deal you can get. For the past five years, I’ve been paying Verizon $40 a month plus fees of about $10 for TWO gigabytes of data, compared with unlimited. This is great!