What can you get from the $40 a month plan

Jr117

Please help me know what you get from $40 a month

SynthpopAddict

Are you referring to the 15 gig prepaid phone plan? I've got that, and it's $45/month if you don't use autopay, $35 if you are on autopay. You have to be careful not to use RCS or other encrypted versions of texting, because RCS texts are counted towards your data use, and not texting use. Unlimited calls and SMS/MMS texting. No hotspot, despite verbiage saying "from plan allowance" - there is no actual "allowance". I don't use my phone much and have a tight budget, so this plan works pretty well for me.

It's better than the discount carrier that I used to use, because even though said discount carrier used Verizon, as a prepaid customer of Verizon directly, you have better priority on the towers (my phone used to go into SOS monthly while on discount carrier). However, while my phone has service all the time now, all prepaid customers are deprioritized to postpaid customers. This means my phone is virtually never connected to the nearest tower - whenever I've checked, it's typically on the 2nd or 3rd closest tower to me. If the network is severely congested, my phone can be sent out to towers as far as 10 miles away, which can cause my calls to get a little wonky due to constant tower handoffs, and my data will crawl along to where I'll have to use WiFi.

You don't get 5G UW service, just the regular 5G, but even though there's a "top level prepaid" plan which supposedly does include 5G UW access, I'd have to wonder if any prepaid customers can get 5G UW due to the deprioritization and having to use towers further away, because 5G UW radio waves don't travel very far. Unless maybe you live somewhere which is very heavily blanketed in 5G and there are towers pretty much on top of you...