Switching carriers...
Mar. 14th, 2017 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAround here, at least, Verizon brags about its $45 per month, per line service, but it's not until you apply the rubber to the road that you realize that number does not include taxes and fees, among which is a $20 monthly "network access" charge (the plain meaning of which I interpret to be a charge for allowing a phone to connect to the cellular network).
The last time we did a check-up with Verizon, the young fellow helping us massaged some things, including the elimination of a $10 per month insurance charge, which theoretically got the monthly charge for Galina's phone down to about $70. However, we then got another indecipherable bill whose bottom line topped out at over $100, so when I heard that T-Mobile was offering service for two lines for $100 including all taxes and fees, I decided it was time to pay them a visit, which we did today.
In the end, we had to get a new phone for Galina ($5 per month for 2 years), but when we include some kind of special store deal that gives us a 20% discount for service, we ought to go from over $150 per month for two lines from Verizon to $85 with T-Mobile (I was already a $50-per-month T-Mobile customer, albeit with limited wireless connectivity).
We'll see how this works out.
Cheers...
The last time we did a check-up with Verizon, the young fellow helping us massaged some things, including the elimination of a $10 per month insurance charge, which theoretically got the monthly charge for Galina's phone down to about $70. However, we then got another indecipherable bill whose bottom line topped out at over $100, so when I heard that T-Mobile was offering service for two lines for $100 including all taxes and fees, I decided it was time to pay them a visit, which we did today.
In the end, we had to get a new phone for Galina ($5 per month for 2 years), but when we include some kind of special store deal that gives us a 20% discount for service, we ought to go from over $150 per month for two lines from Verizon to $85 with T-Mobile (I was already a $50-per-month T-Mobile customer, albeit with limited wireless connectivity).
We'll see how this works out.
Cheers...
