Is there a way to cash in excess data allowance?

[I_dRatherSpeakWithAHu]

We have the Small 2GB data plan for the two of us and still manage to rollover at least one and sometimes more GBs.

The result is that we now have 4 GBs allowance with almost no likelihood that we will use even half that much, so the overhang will grow and grow.

Does Verizon make it possible to cash in some of this excess allowance, perhaps as lowered rates for a month or skipping paying a month for ever more excess capacity?  What's been your experience?

[Ann154]

No.  The rolled over data expires after one billing cycle.

[Elements · Accepted solution]

Verizon doesn't offer anything to trade your unused data for that I'm aware of. However, your carryover data  won't continue to "grow and grow" because only the plan data from the previous billing cycle carries over. That is to say, unused carryover data expires at the end of the billing cycle, and is replaced by the unused data from the current billing cycle.

[I_dRatherSpeakWithAHu]

So basically, Verizon is forcing us to pay for more data than we need and pocketing the difference as profit.  Not a very nice thing to do.

Perhaps Verizon will be more considerate when the competition becomes more overt.

However, we're not going to wait.  We're considering switching to Credo, which has a good social conscience, but even more given that the fees we're paying Verizon are not related to our actual needs as its customers, but rather a sort of super-rent it can charge as a de facto monopoly.