Verizon Adds 'Welcome Unlimited' to Its 4 Other Unlimited-on-Phone Plans

pcmag.com:

The menu at Verizon Wireless now includes five different flavors of unlimited data. The carrier’s Welcome Unlimited, announced(Opens in a new window) Tuesday, offers unlimited smartphone data but subjects it to enough restrictions that it feels like the mobile equivalent of an airline’s Basic Economy fare. 

Welcome Unlimited starts at $65 before taxes and fees on a single line and offers the usual range of discounts on multiple lines–four on a bill run $30 each before the usual surcharges. Like Verizon’s 5G Start plan, $5 more a line, it includes no priority data and limits 5G to the carrier’s slower, low-band “Nationwide 5G.” Unlike 5G Start, Welcome Unlimited doesn’t allow any mobile-hotspot use(Opens in a new window). 

A year and a half ago, only getting low-band 5G might not have impeded the everyday Verizon experience much, considering how scarce its millimeter-wave 5G has been. But the carrier’s swift rollout of C-band 5G has made a huge difference even with a large fraction of the country waiting to get those mid-band speeds.

Verizon’s other three postpaid plans include C-band and mmWave while offering their own mix of extras:

5G Do More, from $80 base rate on a single line to $45 for each of four lines, includes 50GB of premium data, 25GB of mobile-hotspot data, one free TravelPass international-roaming day a month, 600GB of Verizon cloud storage, 50% off Verizon Fios or fixed-wireless home broadband, and up to 50% off a hotspot, smartwatch, or other connected-device plan. 

5G Play More, also from $80 base rate on a single line to $45 for each of four lines, includes 50GB of premium data, 25GB of mobile-hotspot data, the Hulu/Disney+/ESPN ads-included streaming-video bundle, a choice of Apple Arcade or Google