Just a day late of the rumored date, Verizon has announced month-to-month, contract free service plans. If you’re willing to pay full price for a phone or can bring your own handset to the table, you’re free to bail out at the end of each monthly billing period without paying any sort of early termination fee. All of Verizon’s voice and data plans are available sans-contract beginning today.
Sure, sure – just about every other carrier has offered contract free options in some form or another for a while now. Regardless, for those of us who utilize number portability to its fullest by switching carriers on a whim, it’s always nice to have another option.
[Via Phonescoop]
Look here I am, desperately trying to comment on every single MobileCrunch story, and you’re not making it any easier by only running items about American carriers… Maybe I’ll just buy an SD card on Amazon (.co.uk, if you hadn’t guessed).
I glad Verizon is doing this…maybe other carriers will follow suit! Hello SPRINT!
I’ve always wondered why mobile carriers are adverse to this. It seems to me that they would welcome this because they don’t need to subsidize phones for these people, even though they aren’t “locked in.” That’s an extra $4-5/mo over someone that got a subsidized phone, based on my rough estimate of ~$200 subsidy.
I guess this is nice, but I’ve been buying unsubsidized phones and using them on Verizon for years.
175 termination fee? compared to the 200 termination fee from sprint?
its sad that taxpayers giving up thier savings….. so sad