How to redeem the Verizon Wireless military discount on your monthly access fees:
Leave it to Verizon to push a plan that gives you a pile of data you can’t use unless you fork over more in hidden fees.” “So, when they say $80, they actually charge a family of four at least $140.
You can’t actually use any of that data until you pay additional ‘line access’ fees for data you’ve already bought,” said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile. The catch is, it’s not actually an $80 plan. “It’s no surprise Verizon’s spent what looks to be over $100 million in just two months promoting an $80 data plan with 10GB everyone has to share.
To get something more along the lines of T-Mobile's new plan, users would have to upgrade to about $360 per month on Verizon's model. T-Mobile compares its plan to something similar offered by Verizon, which sees its base plan requiring families to share 10GB of data each month at a price of $140. So a four-person family can each get 10GB of data for $120 - or $30 a person - while the promotion runs.
Users who are interested in signing up or switching before Labor Day can get the fourth member's line free if they sign up before the holiday, on September 7. The base plan includes the first two family members with 10GB each at $100, and additional members coming in at $20 per person, with every line getting the usual unlimited data, talk, text, and all the normal Un-carrier perks. T-Mobile today announced an addition to its Un-carrier line of customer perks with a new family plan aimed at providing each member of the family with 10GB of 4G LTE data per person.