Verizon 'myPlan' Condenses Wireless Menu to 2 Plans, Plus Optional Perks

pcmag.com:

Picking an unlimited data plan at Verizon Wireless is about to get a lot simpler as the carrier sweeps away its current collection of six different unlimited offerings and will instead sell just two.

But under this new concept that Verizon is calling “myPlan,” choosing between those two plans then opens the door to adding “Perks”—discounted add-on services from Verizon as well as such third parties as Disney and Apple—that they then drop or add back as they see fit.

“You get what you want, you pay for what you want, and we’re going to be fully transparent about that,” Verizon Consumer Group CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath told PCMag at an event in New York on Monday.

The cheaper Welcome Unlimited almost matches the current plan of the same name, which Verizon began selling last July. As before, its 5G access is limited to the carrier’s slower low-band network (which it sells as “Nationwide 5G”), it provides neither priority data nor mobile-hotspot use, and the service costs $65 on one line and $30 for each of four lines.

Unlimited Plus, meanwhile, mashes up the current 5G Do More, 5G Play More, and 5G Get More plans. It costs the same for up to four lines as those first two plans—$80 on a single line, $45 for each for four lines. And like all three current plans, it covers Verizon’s full 5G spectrum, including the growing C-band network that it markets with its faster but much scarcer millimeter-wave coverage as "Ultra Wideband 5G."

(For plans with more than four lines, both new plans hide a slight rate increase: The new Welcome Unlimited costs $27 each for five-plus lines, up from $25 on the old plan, and Unlimited Plus runs $42 for each of five or more lines, versus $40 for Do More and Play More.)

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