Verizon Wireless has revamped its voice and data service pricing today with the big moves focused around dropping the price of its unlimited voice plans, and requiring a data plan for more of its devices. Existing customers won’t be affected by the changes, however, if they want one of the new offers, they may sign-up for it without having to extend their contract. Release.
The big changes:
—All so-called “3G Multimedia phones” will be required to have a 25 megabyte data package for $10 a month. (includes E-mail, games and the Internet for devices like the LG (SEO: 066570) Chocolate Touch, LG enV3, LG VX8360, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Entice and the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 7705 Twist.
—More basic phones that aren’t using 3G will continue paying $1.99 a megabyte or choose either the $9.99 or $29.99 data packages. Or if a consumer—and non-enterprise user—has a BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or Android phone, prices will remain at $30 a month.
—Verizon’s new Nationwide Unlimited Talk plan that now costs $70 a month, or $90 a month if you also want unlimited text, picture and video messages.
—Prepaid plans will cost just $5 more a month for the same postpaid offerings.
Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm reports that the service plan changes are part of a goal to get people hooked on data before Verizon’s 4G network roll-out. In addition, the carrier also said it plans to reduce the number of devices it sells to 50 from more than 80 today, and to further reduce that number as time goes on.
The new unlimited plan will likely save people money who were previously signed-up for a $100 plan that did not include any text messaging. Now they can have both for $90 a month. Of course, all of these prices are before taxes and fees, so expect the really monthly cost to be moderately higher.
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