Entering the age category of 6 decades a few years back, got me noticing those late night advertisements for “old fart” per month cell phone services. Several years back, they were basically worthless, limited or spotty. Recently, I’ve been impressed and worth a closer examination.
One in particular, PagePlus is using Verizon towers and 4G LTE at a price of about half of primary carriers. The main drawback is roaming if no VzW service. In my area, that’s not really a major problem... but if used, roaming is .20 min.
With household only being Wife & myself, paying a large cell Bill was getting irritating. With most phones now containing both GSM & CMDA antennas, you can bring your own phone too and they offer free number porting to retain old number.
I picked up a SIM card kit for PagePlus... you can activate the card with new number, and freely swap your sims while testing the service. I’m only in 1st day, but data speed is basically the same as VzW sim... my avg is 20-22meg.
For $30, 3GB data, unlimited voice & text, for $40, 8GB data, unlimited voice & text, $55 unlimited all (60gb before Throttle)
My Wife’s iPhone on $30, my Note8 on $40... total $70 in place of $140 for essentially the same service.
Might be an option to consider...
*** Edit - Update***
The service is based on VzW CMDA service towers. I have noticed a few times in different parts of town (while I drive my Wife around for her Errands) there a are few times the iPhone on VzW performed and the Note8 on PagePlus had much lower performance & speed. Some areas of town have more GSM VzW towers, I'm assuming.
*** edit 2***
I may have misspoke, it may be the towers are being learned. The poor area greatly improved and gained all signal bars over time.
One in particular, PagePlus is using Verizon towers and 4G LTE at a price of about half of primary carriers. The main drawback is roaming if no VzW service. In my area, that’s not really a major problem... but if used, roaming is .20 min.
With household only being Wife & myself, paying a large cell Bill was getting irritating. With most phones now containing both GSM & CMDA antennas, you can bring your own phone too and they offer free number porting to retain old number.
I picked up a SIM card kit for PagePlus... you can activate the card with new number, and freely swap your sims while testing the service. I’m only in 1st day, but data speed is basically the same as VzW sim... my avg is 20-22meg.
For $30, 3GB data, unlimited voice & text, for $40, 8GB data, unlimited voice & text, $55 unlimited all (60gb before Throttle)
My Wife’s iPhone on $30, my Note8 on $40... total $70 in place of $140 for essentially the same service.
Might be an option to consider...
*** Edit - Update***
The service is based on VzW CMDA service towers. I have noticed a few times in different parts of town (while I drive my Wife around for her Errands) there a are few times the iPhone on VzW performed and the Note8 on PagePlus had much lower performance & speed. Some areas of town have more GSM VzW towers, I'm assuming.
*** edit 2***
I may have misspoke, it may be the towers are being learned. The poor area greatly improved and gained all signal bars over time.
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