I'm tired of paying my ridiculous Verizon bill every month for our family. My work cell is Verizon and I have great service. I live close to a small city which I work out of. I'm a out an hour from the Philadelphia area. I've had Verizon wireless for over 20 years and it's just doesn't seem worth it anymore.

Any recommendations? Also planning to switch back to an iPhone. I miss having one other than for work.

Just curious, have you updated your VZ plan at all recently?

Yes I check every few months and get an employer discount. No more discount phones anymore either.

Do you currently have any Xfinity/Comcast services...cable, internet?

If so, Xfinity Mobile uses the Verizon network but their plans are less expensive - they don't charge an automatic line fee like Verizon. You can get unlimited data or pay as you go at $12 per gig - no overage fees.

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Originally posted by cudameat:
Do you currently have any Xfinity/Comcast services...cable, internet?

If so, Xfinity Mobile uses the Verizon network but their plans are less expensive - they don't charge an automatic line fee like Verizon. You can get unlimited data or pay as you go at $12 per gig - no overage fees.

I'll have to look into that. Maybe it would reduce my cable bill also.

Wife and I have service on the Verizon network, not paying Verizon's outrageous price.

Spectrum offers Mobile service on the Verizon network. We have Spectrum internet service, so the deal is unlimited voice and text, no charge. Data is your choice of $45 / month for unlimited, or the plan we chose, "By the Gig," at $14.00 per GB. Almost all of our data use is WiFi, we rarely get over 1/2 GB of cellular data, so the TOTAL monthly cost of our cell service is $14.00 per phone, all taxes and junk fees included.

If we did not have Spectrum internet, it would be an additional $20 per month for each phone.

I think that Charter has a similar deal.

I'm of the opinion that Verizon/AT&T, etc not much of difference. Just depends on location.

I have a Verizon pre-pay plan for the family (since we own the phones outright), pay 115 bucks per month for 3 phones total. Unlimited phone, texts, we share 7 gigs of data, with rollover.

same thing, Verizon isn't interested in keeping long term customers (none of them are) so all the deals go to new customers,

You just have to move every year or two, you keep your number, get a new phone and leave the old company.

Coverage is similar for all the carriers, Verizon was the best we had. Moved to ATT, dropped the bill $30 a month AND picked up two new Iphone XR in that same amount I was paying Verizon for nothing but unlimited coverage
no activation fees and $600 from Costco for moving my lines from Verizon to ATT.

It's a no brainer.

I heard sprint has a free iphone up to 4 plan with a reduced rate.

Tmobile does that too,

I suspect you may use VZW for multiple services, e.g. mobile, Internet, TV, etc. This applies only to mobile.

I use Ting, a reseller for T-Mobile and Sprint (depending on whether your phone is GSM or CDMA). They do not charge monthly fees but instead charge for actual usage only with no minimum at very reasonable rates. My monthly bill runs $35 - $60 for four phones and a WiFi hotspot device.

Was in the same boat about 2.5 years ago. We also live about an hour NW of Philly. Had Verizon with 2 lines and was running a bill of about $140 a month, then add in any overages, even with trying to plan ahead and modify data plans before any heavy use still at times would have to pay out. Switched to Tmobil during one of their promos, got 2 new phones, 3 lines and unlimited data for $100 total. Past 2.5 years, every bill has been $100. Coverage is still pretty good, comparable to Vrz. I have a vrz work phone and in a few areas Vrz may be better, in others Tmobil.

Wife uses a Verizon reseller, I actually think it might be walmarts prepaid service. She gets all the same network, but it can't be used as a portable hotspot and there is some kind of caps on usage, which is never a problem.

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Originally posted by HRK:
You just have to move every year or two, you keep your number, get a new phone and leave the old company.

We haven't seen the need to do that. We've been with T-Mobile ever since we left Sprint for increasingly poor service.

Are you a veteran by chance? If so, you could do the T Mobile veteran plan. I switched from Verizon after 10 years last year. Even if you aren't a veteran T Mobile should be significantly cheaper than Verizon.

I went to T Mobile on the veteran plan and I get 3 lines unlimited everything and they give us Netflix for free. I pay $120 per month, which includes 2 Galaxy S9's and an iPhone 6S.

My bill breaks out to: $90 for the lines and $30 for the S9's. After 24 months the phones are paid off.

Service for us has been good(not quite as good as Verizon, but works where I need it - work and home.) On our recent trip to Florida we only lost service 2x on our 3,300 mile trip (mountains in WV and Virginia.)

The last thing for me - T Mobile customer service has been very good as opposed to Verizon, who couldn't care less about you as a customer.

T-Mobile. The wife and I have researched and meant to switch to it but never got around to it This thread reminds me to just do it.

Consumer Cellular.

Service is just as good as what I had previously, at half the cost.

Consumer Cellular. Good coverage and service. Priced right.

Spectrum internet, we are on the Verizon network for $45 flat per phone unlimited, they also have a cheaper per gig cost.

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Originally posted by oddball:
I'm of the opinion that Verizon/AT&T, etc not much of difference. Just depends on location.

I have a Verizon pre-pay plan for the family (since we own the phones outright), pay 115 bucks per month for 3 phones total. Unlimited phone, texts, we share 7 gigs of data, with rollover.

Another Verizon pre-pay customer here. Much cheaper than Verizon post pay even with veterans discount. Page plus and total wireless are prepay carriers using Verizon wireless.

I've been with Verizon, and before that Alltel for the past 15 years. I realized I wasn't using anywhere close to the minutes and data that I was paying for. So, I started looking, and found an online source called "Twigby". I was able to personalize my usage, and slashed my monthly bill considerably. They use Sprint as their main carrier, and Verizon as the secondary. It's only been a couple of months, but I've had no problems.

I do the Cricket thing, 5 phones, mostly unlimited everything, $132. Not saying it’s great, for the price it works for us.

I think they are the cheap side of AT&T.