If the new Shared Data plan will save you money or is better for you, please post here

[xTye]

Well, after doing some math, I learned I'll save more than I thought. I get 25% for working with my current employer.

4x Smartphones: $160
10GB Share Everything: $100 (-25% dropping it to $75)
4x Insurance: $27.96
Tax: $22.61
Total: $285.57

Not too bad. Like I previously said, it was over $400 for the plan we had. Share Everything saves us quite a bit and the discount of 25% is nice since it now counts to all of us instead of just my line.

 

[Aokusman]

So heavy phone call users and light data users can most likely save a little, but I think Verizons ultimate goal was to make the heavy users of data pay for what they use, rather than have the light data users subsidise them, because all smartphones users were required to buy the $30 unlimited plans whether they needed that much data or not. (at least until they came out with the tiered data plans)

Nope. Their goal was to figure a way to gouge customers even more, while making it seem like the customer is saving, because some will save, but most will not. They didn't need a new plan to tax heavy users. All they needed to do was eliminate the unlimited data Plan, as they did, and charge for going over. There was no need to force everybody onto unlimited talk and text as they did. Minutes and text should have been tiered just like data.

 

[redwood66]

Our current lines with unlimited data are a much better deal for us. We live in the country but have excellent 4G coverage. We have no access to DSL or any other highspeed internet so I pay for the wifi hotspot and this is our internet for all our devices - 2 laptops, PS3, and a Xoom tablet. I have Netflix that we stream and the PS3 is used online. Our monthly usage ranges from 12GB to 22GB. The first month we had 4G the usage was 42GB! Usually not that high though. I just bought (before the 28th of June) a refurb Razr through Verizon for $369 to replace my husband's DroidX in case we were going to have a problem moving his line to 4G. No issues with changing it and I think a refurb phone through Verizon is the best way to go. Much cheaper and it still has the warranty for replacement if it has problems.

Our breakdown is this for our Unlimited plan:

Account Monthly Access Charges Nationwide Loyalty Share 550 06/23 - 07/22 $40.00 17% Access Discount ($40.00 + $9.99) 06/23 - 07/22 -$8.50
Subtotal

$31.50



Monthly Access Charges - Line 1

Line Access 06/23 - 07/22 $9.99
Email & Web Unlimited 06/23 - 07/22 $29.99
20% Feature Dscnt - Account 06/23 - 07/22 -$6.00
International Value Plan 06/23 - 07/22 $3.99
250 Message Allowance 06/23 - 07/22 $5.00
TEC Asurion Single Tier - Asurion 06/23 - 07/22 $6.99
4G SMARTPHONE Hotspot 06/23 - 07/22 $30.00
20% Feature Dscnt - Account 06/23 - 07/22 -$6.00
Total

$73.96


Monthly Access Charges - Line 2

Line Access 06/23 - 07/22 $9.99
Email & Web Unlimited 06/23 - 07/22 $29.99
250 Message Allowance 06/23 - 07/22 $5.00
Total

$44.98


Total average monthly charges with Unlimited Data - $153- $154


With the New Share Everything to get just 10GB data to share is $180.

$80 for 2 phones
$100 for 10GB
plus all the taxes

So this is not a good deal for us.

 

[snowwy66]

the new plan will cost me $20 more. for the same plan.

if i went back to sprint. i'd save $50 for the same plan.

 

[hilmar2k]

We switched our plan and saved a bunch of money. We had the 1400 minutes with unlimited texting, with 5 smartphones, all with unlimited data. We don't use much data, so most months we will just need the 1GB data plan. Those months we will save almost $60. When it looks like we'll go over 1GB, I'll just up to the 2GB (or whatever is necessary) plan for just that month. Even those months we'll save money.

Do people realize you can do that? Switch your data plan on the last day of your billing cycle retroactively to the first day of your billing cycle? No one should ever pay an overage, or pay for a data package higher than they needed.

Bottom line is that we'll save a ton of money, since we don't use tons of data (thanks to wifi most places I go).

 

[raehl311]

I used to have 5 data modems at $60/month each, plus data overages at $10/GB.

Now I have 5 @ $20/month plus 10Gs of data at $60, and more data is $10/2 GB. So I'm down to about half price.

Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get a smartphone to work as a tablet on a data plan.

 

[saptech]

I recently talked to Vzw about switching the wife and my individual plans to the Share plan. If we was to do it, we could save anywhere from $20 to $50, but it turns out that the CSR mention if we do switch, my line would be the main line, the wife would lose the warranty on her phone. We've had these smartphones since Dec. '11.

I don't understand what the warranty on the phone have to do with switching plans....we'll keep the current phones because we can't upgrade until 2013.

It would be beneficial for us since she talk alot and I use data the most, but don't need the highest data plan.

 

[dirkbonn]

I recently talked to Vzw about switching the wife and my individual plans to the Share plan. If we was to do it, we could save anywhere from $20 to $50, but it turns out that the CSR mention if we do switch, my line would be the main line, the wife would lose the warranty on her phone. We've had these smartphones since Dec. '11.

I don't understand what the warranty on the phone have to do with switching plans....we'll keep the current phones because we can't upgrade until 2013.

It would be beneficial for us since she talk alot and I use data the most, but don't need the highest data plan.

That sounds really odd. I would think the warranty goes with the phone not the plan.

Does that mean if I get a new phone with a 1 year waranty and then after 3 months switch back to my old Droid X, I still have 9 months warranty on my 2+ year old "X". Of course I know the answer to that one, but that's what make the CSR's statement make you go "Huh????"

I think you need a 2nd opinion. :smokingsomb: