Thursday, November 1, 2007

New Verizon Wireless Prepay Plans


Verizon Wireless today announced new INpulse prepay plans essentially customized for various lighter use or episodic use modes.The new plans, INpulse Core, INpulse Plus and INpulse Power, charge customers a daily access fee only on the days of use and include unlimited calling to Verizon Wireless customers nationwide.

INpulse Core offers daily access at 99 cents and calls at 10 cents a minute. Text messages are charged at 10 cents for each message. INpulse Plus costs $1.99 a day, on the days a user wants to talk or text, with unlimited night minutes and voice calling at five cents a minute and five-cent text messages.

INpulse Power costs $2.99, with unlimited night minutes of use and calls at two cents a minute. Text messages cost two cents each.

Customers who set up an INpulse account with an initial payment of $15 may purchase any Verizon Wireless phone (excluding smartphones, PDAs) at the same price as Verizon Wireless customers who sign a one-year customer agreement.

In addition, INpulse Core, INpulse Plus and INpulse Power customers who decide later to move to monthly postpay customer agreements may now keep their INpulse prepay phone numbers when they switch plans. INpulse account balances will be used as a credit toward the new postpay monthly customer agreement.

Verizon Wireless offers INpulse in pre-packaged plans built around three handsets, including $10 of airtime at activation. Those phones are the Samsung SCH-u340, the
Samsung SCH-a870 and the Motorola RAZR V3m.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

My understanding is that even if you subscribe to the Inpulse Core plan, and rarely use your phone, you still must pay a minimum of $15 per month. Do you know if that's correct?

Gary Kim said...

As I understand it, there is a minimum $15 charge to create the plan, but no recurring fees. It is then based on your usage. So, no, I don't understand there is a $15 a month recurring fee, even if usage is light.

Anonymous said...

Lets look at that question from a different prospective. If you only add $15 to your account it will expire in 30 days, so essentially you must pay $15 monthly to keep your phone service active? So therefore your going to pay $15 per month at minimum.

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