The age of prepaid, no contracts and service options are constantly growing and being tweaked to cater more towards the end users. All the big name carriers out there have various prepaid options. heck, some even have their own side companies, like Sprint with Boost Mobile. Today, Verizon has announced a new prepaid offering dubbed ALLSET.
In the smartphone range you are looking at $45 a month with unlimited text and 500 MB monthly data. Where the extra data, and subsequently, the ‘sort of rollover data’ option comes in is with the purchase of BRIDGE DATA. Where you can purchase an allotment of data that can be used over 90-days vs the typical 30-day period. With the exception of the usual 500 MB additional allotment, of course.
- 500 MB for $5 with 30 exp
- 1 GB for $10 with a 90-day exp
- 3 GB for $20 with a 90-day exp
I suppose you can’t really call it rollover data if it has an expiration date attached. Since you can now have a 90-day block to use more data, it does offer users a chance to be a bit more flexible and save a little bit if one months usage goes up while the rest stay lower.
Along with that information, Verizon points out that the plans also give users unlimited texting to Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico for no additional cost. New ALLSET plan customers will also receive 1,000 minutes a month for international calling to Canada and mexico, but not to Puerto Rico. Finally, on the ALLSET smartphone plan you will have access to the mobile hotspot feature to share the data connection with other device. We are betting that is where they will be happy to nab you for extra data packages.
It is better than nothing and for many, it might be all that is needed. I know I am on Wi-Fi 90% of my day and my mobile data consumption is extremely low. It could work out for me quite nicely.
Source: Verizon
