New Verzion Plans lock you into a contract with bring your own phones?
RKNE41 wrote:
they increase the line access fee if you're not buying a phone from Verizon. It's $20/month if you are paying for a phone, $40 a month if you bring your own device.
The post you added to this 3 year old discussion is incorrect. If you are on the New Verizon Plan, your line access fee is $20. It only increases to $40 if you somehow manage to buy a device on 2 year contract. Currently only business accounts can purchase phones under 2 year contract. So if someone transferred their business line with a phone that was purchased under 2 year contract to a personal account, they would have to pay a $40 line access fee until the contract for that device ends. Did you bring your line of service from a business account?
If you are on the retired MORE Everything Plan, the regular smartphone line access fee is $40.
Just to rule out some bizarre circumstance, what plan are you on and where do you plan to purchase your device?
I'm on the New Verizon Plan Unlimited. My plan access is $100 and my line access charges are $20. If I purchase a used phone on Ebay, my line access charges remain $20. If I purchase a phone directly from the manufacturer, my line access fee is $20. On June 29, I purchased an iPhone 8 Plus 64GB from Verizon and that line's access fee is $20. On July 6, I purchased a Google Pixel 2 XL 64GB from the Verizon authorized retailer Best Buy to stack their promotional discounts and my line access fee is still $20(and my device payment is only $6.17/month for 24 months
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RKNE41 wrote:
I trust the company about as far as I can throw it
Then you should just choose another carrier? I have been a customer for 10 years and have never had any surprise charges on my bill. The details of all plans are available online.
I took the IMEIs of phones that I did not purchase from Verizon and entered them into the BYOD plan selection tool. One phone was purchased used on Ebay and the other was purchased used on Amazon. For the 4GB plan the total due monthly is $90. The plan access fee is $50 plus $20 line access fees for each device. There are no extra hidden fees.
Now I selected the current Unlimited plans. For 2 lines the website says Beyond Unlimited is $80/line with auto-pay for a total of $160. It is showing $85/line for a total of $170 with a notation that you can save an additional $5 on each line with auto-pay and paperless billing. Still no extra fees.
I logged into my account and selected add a line on my now retired New Verizon Plan Unlimited. I chose the BYOD option and the monthly access charge is $20. No extra fees.
Here is a line on my account that is not currently on a device payment agreement. The line access fee is $20 not $40.
To Mother of dogs; nowhere did I say Verizon lies. All I said was that I was getting conflicting answers and that at least one of them was unintelligible. That's not lying, that's just problems with customer support.
To Joey: I appreciate all your work on that. I'd have done it that way myself, but not everyone has extra phones lying around. I have two in the house, both of which were bought from Verizon (Whenever we get new phones, the old phones are traded in or donated to charity). When I feed their IMEI and SIM card numbers into the BYOD tool, the tool locks and tells me to call support.
To David: thank you for the verification of Joey's findings. I have two things to say: first, as I outlined above and in the image, it looks like current customers cannot use the tool on a phone that is already registered to the Verizon system. Keeping that in mind, perhaps Verizon could be more open and just say what the fees are instead of forcing us to try to go through the tool. Maybe in a FAQ somewhere...
Like I said, not everyone has an unregistered device in hand already. I asked this question in the first place because I didn't want to go out and buy a phone if it isn't going to save me anything in the long run. I understand that the point of BYOD is to entice people to bring their existing devices from another carrier, but current customers also deserve a fast and easy answer. It's rarely fast to call the customer service line and doing so probably wouldn't be easy, since you'd have to walk through all the same steps as the BYOD tool with someone unfamiliar with that particular question.
RKNE41 wrote:
After your IEMI is shown to be for a compatible device, you're asked for a
SIM card number... mine phone and SIM card are already registered with
Verizon, so my guess is that the system realized this and isn't programmed
to handle the request.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 7:10 AM, mama23dogs <forums@verizonwireless.com>
It only progresses to the SIM card page if you have a compatible, non VZ device. If you already have a SIM card, you enter the sim as shown
If the phone is a Verizon phone you just insert your existing SIM card.
I think you are over thinking things.
And how do you think I came up with the image above? You know, this one?
I got to this point by entering the IEMI and SIM of the only phone I have
access to -- my current Verizon phone -- that's how. If you look closely,
you can see that I erased the middle of the number, which starts with 80
and ends with 92.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:38 AM, mama23dogs <forums@verizonwireless.com>
