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Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network (pcmag.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the paying-the-price dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Verizon is offering up to $650 to customers who switch to their network. PC Mag reports: "To get the discount, you'll need to port your number to Verizon, trade in your current device, and buy a new 4G LTE smartphone. Verizon will give you up to $650 on a prepaid card to cover the installment plan balance, minus the device trade-in value, or up to a $350 via a prepaid card to cover your old carrier's early termination fees (minus the device trade-in value). Your existing phone needs to be in 'good working condition,' and you have to keep your new Verizon line active for at least six months."

10 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. Anonymous reader? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More like Anonymous Verizon Employee; am I right?

  2. Damn Ads! by yeshuawatso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, Slashdot, your slashvertisements have hit a new low. Going to have to add the entire root domain to ABP now.

    1. Re:Damn Ads! by BradleyUffner · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well, Slashdot, your slashvertisements have hit a new low. Going to have to add the entire root domain to ABP now.

      I've been reading Slashdot for a VERY long time. I've seen it go down hill these past few years, but this is the first "story" that made me say "What the actual fuck?" out loud.

    2. Re:Damn Ads! by chipschap · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No kidding. Slashdot shilling for Microsoft is bad enough, but VERIZON?

      There seems to be no limit on "how low can you go".

    3. Re:Damn Ads! by dknj · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The problem is us low-uid drones keep coming back and reading (and some of us continue posting to the comment section). Ergo, nothing will change. Just like the anti-beta team that was slowly silenced by the developers forcing the problematic design on us all. Solyent News picked a horrible name and just faded into obscurity (yes they have very similar content but the comment section is desperately lacking). So where else do we have to go.. Reddit? ha. IRC? I know a few that have. But must that I've talked to have just given up. They never login anymore and continue to read slashdot and give into the ad viewership. Which, what is up with that ?autorefresh and waking up to blaring audio ads because I left slashdot open in a tab.

      If my ADD didn't need a fix, slashdot would be dead to me now. At least OSNews hasn't strayed from it's path in over 15 years.

  3. Awful in SF by Pausanias · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Verizon is by far the most awful provider in San Francisco. Enormous data dead zones between Fell and California, frequently switching to 3G and even (yikes!) 1x (which I assume is like even slower than EDGE). I switched to Big Red because my company made me, and I so so miss AT&Ts coverage in the bay area. And then they have the nerve to buy out the entire Montgomery Muni station and advertise how great they are. **** them.

  4. Watch the fine print by Tony+Isaac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those deals that seem too good to be true...often are. There are so many restrictions in the fine print, and you have to wait six months, by the time you realize you aren't getting the $650 because of some technicality, it's too late.

  5. So this is Slashdot? by WD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This site has been becoming less and less relevant as time goes on. But this makes it very clear. Slashdot is not news for nerds. It is revenue for Dice Holdings. And they're not even trying to hide it. It's been real...

  6. Tmobile has hit it's mark now by rsborg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks like the big 2 (VZ, ATT) are realizing that "being the best" or "being the biggest" aren't good enough for most folks when they can get service much much cheaper (and with switcher discounts to boot). And in some cases the service being offered by Sprint and T-Mobile are even better than the big 2.

    3 years ago me and a dozen of my closest colleagues were on AT&T and Verizon. Now, I'd say about half are on T-Mobile (including me) and one is on sprint. Sure, this is an anecdote, but I also personally have 10 people on my plan (including friends) and the billing has been pretty much no-nonsense (simply no overages) and rock solid.

    I've touted the benefits of T-Mobile before, but even it T-Mobile became twice as shitty I'd never go back to AT&T with their regular data overages and Verizon with it's crazy share plans that would make a family/friends plan a nightmare.

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  7. very happy with Google Fi by chrispitude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My wife and I both switched from Verizon to Google's Project Fi. Even with the ETFs, even with paying the 24-month amortized payments on the Nexus 5X, we're at break-even in four months, and it's gravy from there on out. The cost savings was huge. Once we did the numbers, it was a no-brainer to break our Verizon contracts early. Fi's coverage so far has been excellent.