{"id":184191,"date":"2010-01-15T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/337a69f03f62c67d3b69a7c96896190c"},"modified":"2010-01-15T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:55:00","slug":"article-verizon-wireless-revamps-calling-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/184191","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon Wireless revamps calling plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/91486-verizon-wireless-logo_001.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon Wireless\" width=\"400\" height=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As expected based on speculation earlier this week, Verizon Wireless formally announced changes to their wireless calling plans.<\/p>\n<p>The new calling plans, which take effect on January 18th, will be renamed &#8220;Nationwide Talk&#8221; and &#8220;Nationwide Talk and Text,&#8221; and unlimited options will be available for $69.99 and $89.99, respectively.&nbsp; Family options will be available as well, with unlimited talk starting at $119.99 and unlimited talk and text starting at $149.99 (both including two lines).&nbsp; Additional lines will cost $49.99.<\/p>\n<p>Prepaid plans will be revised as well, with a $5 price increase across the board over postpaid options.&nbsp; The unlimited talk plan will be available for $74.99, while the unlimited talk and text will be $94.99.&nbsp; 450 and 900 minute options will be available as well.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the LG enV Touch and the Samsung Rogue (which were billed as &#8220;multimedia phones&#8221; last year), data packages will now be required on the LG Chocolate Touch, LG enV3, LG VX8360, Motorola Entice W766, Nokia 7705 Twist, and Samsung Alias 2.&nbsp; Options include a 25 MB data plan for $9.99 monthly, or an unlimited option for $29.99 monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Existing Verizon Wireless customers will not be affected by the changes, unless they choose to move to one of the new &#8220;Nationwide&#8221; plans.&nbsp; While the unlimited plans have been lowered to a reasonable price (are you listening, AT&amp;T?), the concept of data requirements on the phones listed above is a bit frustrating, to say the least.&nbsp; For those that want one (or more) of the 3G devices above, make sure to buy before Monday in order to avoid the data requirement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7h1c0U-L6wHwg8KVAonpxhvTo_w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7h1c0U-L6wHwg8KVAonpxhvTo_w\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7h1c0U-L6wHwg8KVAonpxhvTo_w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/7h1c0U-L6wHwg8KVAonpxhvTo_w\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/MK2o2BgzriU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected based on speculation earlier this week, Verizon Wireless formally announced changes to their wireless calling plans. The new calling plans, which take effect on January 18th, will be renamed &#8220;Nationwide Talk&#8221; and &#8220;Nationwide Talk and Text,&#8221; and unlimited options will be available for $69.99 and $89.99, respectively.&nbsp; Family options will be available as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}