My Verizon Prepaid Experience
My Verizon prepaid phone.
I bought a Verizon Prepaid phone to play with the Verizon Navigator and also to play with a Verizon Prepaid plan. I played with the Navigator and it works great but I did not use the phone.
Then a week later I wanted to call my daughter and chat on the cell phone. It wouldn’t work. I live three miles out of town and my other cell phone was working fine.
A couple days later I went to take the phone back to Verizon. I went in to the Customer Service person and said my phone isn’t working. She promptly dialed with it and it worked. Then she asked where I lived. I told her and she said “Oh last weekend the tower near you quit working.” Then she said everyone else’s phone was working fine because they roamed onto the nearby Alltel Tower. She didn’t know why my phone had been dead.
Verizon Prepaid VS Verizon Contract Coverage
The coverage is different. Even most of the Verizon customer service do not know it. There are holes in coverage with most services. If Alltel has coverage in an area a contract phone will roam onto the Alltel network. The Verizon prepaid phone will drop the call and not roam. The Verizon prepaid phone will not get as good of reception as a Verizon contract phone. Verizon actually has a different coverage map for prepaid than it does for contract.
Three Hours for One Dollar Verizon Prepaid
Since my prepaid Verizon phone is now working I called my daughter and talked for over an hour. I also called my son and talked for over an hour (he has Verizon also). The Verizon One dollar a day prepaid plan lets you talk as much as you want to other Verizon users for one dollar a day. You will only be charged on the days you use your phone. You must add at least $30 every two months to keep your service active. If you add $100 to your account it will stay active for a year.
24 hours
When you start use of your Verizon prepaid cell you have use for 24 hours. If you start using it at 1:00 in the afternoon on Monday you will get free usage to other Verizon numbers until 12:59 Tuesday afternoon. This is true also of the VZ Navigator, when you activate it you get 24 hours of usage.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I have had the Verizon Prepaid phone for a while. I have a couple of friends that have Verizon that I talk to a lot. It works great as long as you only talk to people on Verizson.