****Plan starts October 9th (this Friday) but has been OFFICIALLY confirmed by PagePlus***
Plan includes 1200 minutes / 1200 texts or MMS / 50mb data usage
1) Offered by Page Plus Cellular; a Verizon Wireless MVNO (Reseller). 2) No activation fee. No fees. No taxes. 3) Same coverage area as Verizon Wireless Prepaid. 4) You may use: a) ANY Verizon handset with a clean ESN. b) Other CDMA handsets may possibly be used with/without flashing. 5) $29.99/Month fee can be lowered even further by purchasing refill cards at various discounters.
Nice! Thanks for posting. I've not been reading howardforums much lately so would have missed out. When my PP minutes run out, I'm going for this plan!
I wish they had some sort of family plan. I have three phones in my family and prepay for all three is only like $10-20 cheaper for me at this new rate.
I'm wondering how customer service issues will be because I tried calling the number about 5 times and the recording says, "We are unable to take your call at this time...." 800-550-2436.
Good deal but I have a question. Will this include the full signal strength as a regular Verizon contract plan? For instance, Virgin Mobile and Cricket Wireless vs Sprint & Boost Mobile vs Nextel. (Though they use the same network, go into a building with your Boost Mobile phone and compare how many bars you have with someone with a Nextel phone/service.)
Also whoever did the QuickSummary, can you fix your links so they actually show up correctly? (Howard and Wiki links)
desynced said: Good deal but I have a question. Will this include the full signal strength as a regular Verizon contract plan?
Yes. Acts just like a native Verizon phone -- as long as you are in a PP service area, there should be little to no difference compared to a Verizon handset on PP and a Verizon hanset on native Verizon assuming you have two %100 identical phones.
edit: tried to clean up the Wiki some.. but it's pretty much a mess of random information. Better than nothing I guess. Thanks to the original Wiki editor for getting it started
xnkennyh said: You have to buy a refill card of 30$ every month?
Yes and no. They have an auto replenish you can manually setup to charge a debit or credit card on a specific date each month. One Page Plus month is 30 days.
Edit: to be more precise, you just need to have $29.95 in your account. You can buy $80 cards and not worry about it. I tend to run a $0.00 balance and just renew via the auto-replenish.
inthemood
Member
posted: Oct. 7, 2009 @ 8:44p
Not exactly. Go to Verizon's website to check their post-paid and prepaid coverage, you will see nation-wide there is a lot of difference, i.e., prepaid coverage is a lot less.
Paperbag said: desynced said: Good deal but I have a question. Will this include the full signal strength as a regular Verizon contract plan?
edit: tried to clean up the Wiki some.. but it's pretty much a mess of random information. Better than nothing I guess. Thanks to the original Wiki editor for getting it started
inthemood said: Not exactly. Go to Verizon's website to check their post-paid and prepaid coverage, you will see nation-wide there is a lot of difference, i.e., prepaid coverage is a lot less.
Paperbag said: desynced said: Good deal but I have a question. Will this include the full signal strength as a regular Verizon contract plan?
Yes. Acts just like a native Verizon phone.
From what I understood, he was talking signal strength based on two phones in a service area compared side to side (assuming same phones, and all other factors of course). Verizon does not gimp your signal because you are using one of their MVNOs. Full bars on a Verzion phone will be full bars on a PP phone (again, within reason due to no two phones being the same). The new pageplus coverage map provides the best estimate. It was updated a few weeks ago and contains some places not on the Verizon pre-paid map.
You are correct in that the tower coverage will be different, however. Sorry for the confusion
I got a pageplus plan for my brother, and so far I've (he's) been very pleased with it. My only regret is that I foolishly started him out with just a $40 card and the $12 activation credit. That would have lasted me a couple of months, as little as I use my cell. He, however, burned through those minutes like they were paper. I switched to the Unlimited T&T, and that's working out much better. My question is how do you switch back to straight minutes, or to the 1200 plan discussed here? Can you do it online, or do you need to call?
I have the $39.99 unlimited talk/text plan with 20mb of data. Just switched my phones off from Verizon normal to this pre-paid account and have been very happy with them. With both phones, however, I had to call them to get the phone activated because too much time passed and I never received an email with the phone number or confirmation of activation. The 800 number takes a little bit to get through.
I would junp in, if Verizon is offering a GSM phone.
BoogeyUCLA
Thrifty Member
posted: Oct. 7, 2009 @ 9:36p
I have the $39.99 unlimited talk/text plan + 20MB data too. So far, very happy with the quality of service, and I'm going to switch to this cheaper plan as soon as it comes out.
instinet said: Is there any way to port my existing number to Page Plus? I assume a new number is mandatory.
Search for previous page plus thread for the Unlimited talk/text deal. There were instructions in one of the posts there on exactly how to proceed with the porting and activation process to properly get your number ported over. It's not complicated, somebody just figured out how to do it as simple as possible.
lazybummm said: what about data overages? it seems that normally it's $1.20/MB is that the same with this plan? No night and weekend with this I assume?
From looking at their unlimited plan, it says 60 cents per mb for data overage (data transport), and pictures (MMS) are 10c + data transport. I would assume the 1200 plan is similar.
ngokcek
New Member
posted: Oct. 8, 2009 @ 6:00a
I have been using pageplus more than a year. And many of my friends are also using pageplus now.
Perfect immediate activation service with 100 free minutes:
rampart51 said: I am a normal month to month Verizon customer but NOT on a contract with them. The contract has expired. The phone I use is NOT a prepaid.
Can I switch over to PagePlus or does it have to be one of those prepaid phones?
I've read a lot of info here and I'm totally confused.
Thanks!
If you phone works on the Verizon network, it will work on Page Plus (which is also, the Verizon Network). Example: I use a Samsung SCH-i760 PDA phone I bought off eBay.
Catch: Not all Verizon branded phones work %100 'out of the box' so to speak. If you want full %100 support, buy a phone from Page Plus's website. Otherwise you are on your own to get it working (howardforums is a good resource, see Wiki links).
rampart51
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 8, 2009 @ 7:26a
Thx Paperbag.....the more I read the more confused I get.....must be my age!
on the prepaid plan....The way i understand this...
1) $29.99 includes tax, right ? 2) you get 1200 anytime minutes that can rolled over 120 days, correct ? 3) what happens after 120 days ? you loose all the remaining minutes ?
gocint said: on the prepaid plan....The way i understand this...
1) $29.99 includes tax, right ? 2) you get 1200 anytime minutes that can rolled over 120 days, correct ? 3) what happens after 120 days ? you loose all the remaining minutes ?
1) Depends where you buy. $29.99 flat fee, no taxes. No other fees on that, like USF fund or whatever post-paid guys come up with 2) I'm not sure on this. I think that you get 120 service days, but the minutes expire after 30 days and you have to renew. The service days keep your line/account active. Kind of like TracFone *I believe*. 3) I do think that you lose them if you don't use them with a plan like this. Again, I have only been with PP for about a month and a half on their Unlimited Talk and Text plan.
Hope this is at least a little bit of help. You might go ask this question over at Howard Forums for a better answer!
Ha, now I got an email from Kitty saying the iPhone is not allowed, and is subject to deactivation. I guess it works as long as you don't tell them it's an iphone
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