Broadband & Mobile Featured Article
December 19, 2008
Verizon's New Prepaid Plans for Wireless Users
By Jyothi Shanbhag TMCnet Contributing Editor
Verizon Wireless has come out with a prepaid service offering customers an extensive line up of wireless phones that start at $39.99 and a range of plans that fit any budget and lifestyle.
Verizon (News - Alert) Wireless prepaid users can now take advantage of different plans such as Core, Plus and Power, which includes unlimited calling to other Verizon Wireless customers through its network.
Daily access fees begin at $0.99 and apply only on the days customers use the service. Customers or gift givers can establish and maintain Verizon Wireless' prepaid service for as low as $15 or with $100 set up on the account for a full year.
Moreover, Users can use Verizon Wireless prepaid accounts like a store paying for a range of options inclusive of V CAST Music with Rhapsody, ringtones, ringback tones, Mobile Web, VZ Navigator(SM), games and other applications.
For $20 per month, users can get text, picture and video messaging bundles as add on. Unlimited messaging for customers who text message to mostly other Verizon Wireless customers, a $10 unlimited in-network option is available that also includes an additional 250 messages to anyone on any network.
International callers can call or text at pay-per-minute rates as low as $0.10 a minute to landlines, $0.69 per minute in Puerto Rico, Canada and the U.S. Virgin Islands; $0.99 per minute in Mexico and $1.99 per minute in Bermuda.
Prepaid customers can use their text messaging-capable phones to send text messages to customers in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico at $0.10 per message. Text messages sent to customers of the participating carriers in other international locations are $0.25 per message, and text messages received from these locations are $0.10 per message.
Verizon Wireless has invested more than $48 billion since it was formed to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services like BroadbandAccess and V CAST.
Regionally the company has invested over $2.2 billion into its New England network, including over $100 million during the first six months of 2008. As the wireless carrier with America's largest 3G network, every Verizon Wireless cell site in New England provides wireless broadband connectivity.
Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Tim Gray
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