Better deal, T-Moble 4 person Family Plan or Verizon 4 person Family Plan? Seems Verizon's line charges and data limits cost you more?
T-Mobile - 4 lines, unlimited data, $160. Data slows after 28GB/mo. No phone payments included, so if you need phones, you have to add that in.
Verizon, the same $160 will get 4 lines, (@$20 each) and 12GB data. There are things you can do to add bonus data; there is Carryover data, and Safety mode which is basically unlimited at slower speed.
Which is better? It depends on your needs and usage. If T-Mo doesn't have coverage where you need it, it's NOT a better deal. Yes, you get more data with T-Mo; not everyone needs that much data so having "unlimited" is a moot point.
So are you saying the 4 person plan at Verizon is an extra $80 over T-Mobile? For the 4 line charges at $20 each? Why do they do that? No line charge over the $160 at T-Mobile from what I understand.
It isn't an extra $80 for the Verizon Plan.
Yeah it was just a typo
I see it as 30GB is $135 with $80 line access for 4 phones. $215 Verizon vs $160 at T-Mobile. Way more expensive on Verizon. So why is it $65 better. Ok, 2 more GB, big deal.
Do you need 30 GB of high speed data?
Well actually....you could get the 16gb plan for 90, which gives 2 addl gb per line and 80 line charge for 170 not including the phone monly payments. Or you could overshoot tmobiles plan and get the 24gb plan for 110 which gives an addl 2gb per line and the 80 line charge for 190 total. So it's not nearly as much higher as you think.
Also the 160 on T-Mobile includes a 5 per line au pay discount. If you don't wanna do automatic monty payments it is not 180. Hmm......
Tethering is when you use your phones connection for other devices.
For example a laptop you can connect to the internet.
T-Mobile almost has 0 roaming agreements. If they do it's veey spotty and limited. If you end up domestically roaming too much they will terminate your service as it is cheaper to let you go than keep you as a customer. They heavily rely on people using Wi-Fi calling and hope people don't roam. Their international service bundle thing is pretty decent but people travel and at times have a lot of trouble with it even with places on their list. Pretty much best to say hit or miss.
https://support.t-mobile.com/mobile/mobile-access.jspa#jive-content?inbox=false&content=%2Fapi%2Fcore%2Fv3%2Fcontents%2F…
Here's the most recent person to get caught excessively roaming. All carriers have this clause but it happens more often with smaller carriers than.
Sprint duped everyone at the office I work at. We were terminated for excessive roaming... Silly thing is we allowed them to use our building antennas for a nominal fee(dirt dirt cheap) and after that they lost the tower and they tried to sue us. We won... We counter sued and won that one too.
My best advice. Grab prepaid and test service on your usual place of travels(including trips) and check out the service. If it works great switch. If it doesn't you saved yourself a lot of headaches.
I know for a fact that T-Mobile customers would be roaming on a regional carrier through large chunks of Nebraska and Colorado. AT&T does too and they don't even tell you on the phone itself that you are roaming on the other carrier.
I stayed with Verizon once they got with the program and they transitioned to the unlimited plan like everyone else. No problems with Verizon service, they just were very expensive until their new pricing came out.
