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Channel: Payette Forward
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- The best cell phone plans of 2022.
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Switching cell phone plans is a great way
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to save money every single month.
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And sometimes they get better coverage,
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better features when you do.
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Let's start with our
favorite unlimited plan,
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Visible's plan.
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- Visible is owned and
operated by Verizon.
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They are Verizon.
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What don't you get?
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You don't get stores.
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You don't get phone support.
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You do get all the great Verizon service
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and good chat support, and online support.
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So they also don't get 3G with this plan,
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but 3G is going away in
the beginning of 2022.
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So who needs that anyway?
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- This plan includes unlimited data.
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It's an unlimited plan,
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unlimited minutes, unlimited messages,
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mobile hotspots included,
calling to Mexico
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and Canada is included.
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5G coverage is included,
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and the thing that's
really great about Visible,
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when you add four people to your party,
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so you have a party of
four, including yourself,
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your plan's gonna cost $25 a month,
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- Right.
- and everyone is responsible
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for their own bill.
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It's like a family plan
where it's just one bill
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and you have to Venmo your
friend or your mother,
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or whoever.
- Exactly. Venmo your mother.
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Yeah, I couldn't do that if I tried.
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How much is Visible for one line?
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- $40 a month which is
still a pretty good deal
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on unlimited data.
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When you start adding
people to your party though,
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so if you have a party of
two, $35 a month per line.
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Party of three, $30 a month per line.
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Party of four or more,
$25 a month per line,
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and Visible also recently added
Apple watch cellular plans
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for $5 a month.
- Really?
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- Which, and unlimited data on that too,
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which is a pretty good deal, so,
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- That's a great deal.
- Yeah, so
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if you're looking for an
Apple watch cellular plan
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to go with your cell phone plan,
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- That's a great deal.
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- Yeah, if you're looking
for an Apple watch,
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just get a party of four.
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$30 a month for that, is,
- Yeah.
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- it's very good deal.
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- It's like getting eight
lines for $30 a month.
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- It's really great.
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- That's a great deal. How 'bout that?
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What about a party of five? How much then?
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- $25 a month.
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- Per line? What about 6?
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- It's $25 a month.
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- How many lines can I have?
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How many people in the party?
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What's the maximum?
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- I don't know.
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- What if I want to get my
entire college in on this?
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- I don't know if there is a maximum.
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- There is not.
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- Is there not a maximum?
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- There's no maximum
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in this party.
- Oh wow, okay.
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- So let's say you're a college
student and you're popular.
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I don't know what that's like,
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but you've got a lot of friends
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and you don't want to pay a lot of money
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for your cell phone bill,
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so you get every single
person at that college
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to sign up for your party pay plan.
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You only pay $5 a month then.
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- Yep.
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- Yeah.
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- Refer a friend, $5 a month
for you and that friend.
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I think there's a cap at one year,
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but still, a year of of service for $60.
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That's pretty good.
- Pretty good, yeah.
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You know, maybe you can make it part
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of your sorority or
fraternity initiation process.
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- Sign up for this plan.
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- Sign up for this plan is required.
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Let's talk about our favorite MVNO plan,
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it's the Mint Mobile 10
gigabyte prepaid plan,
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10 gigabytes of high-speed
data, including 5G,
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unlimited minutes, unlimited
messages, mobile hotspot,
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Mint Mobile, I think, has
the best ads of any carrier.
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- I mean,
(dreamy harp music)
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my mom and I were in the car the other day
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and we actually spent
a few minutes talking
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about how charming Ryan Reynolds is.
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- Okay.
- He's just,
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I can't not like him.
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He's probably the most charismatic person.
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I mean him, Chris Pratt.
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- The ads are really good.
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Mobile hotspot is included.
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(dreamy harp music)
- Can we just talk
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about Ryan Reynolds, please?
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- Wifi. Calling also included.
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So the $20 a month
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for this plan is the
three month intro offer.
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So, you can lock in that
price after that three months,
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if you renew for a full year.
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So, what we recommend doing is,
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take that three month intro offer,
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$20 a month, $60 upfront.
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See if you like Mint
Mobile, if they're for you,
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renew for the full year,
lock in that price.
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- Right, that's the deal.
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Mint Mobile is a great
plan for a great price.
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(dreamy harp music)
Owned by Ryan Reynolds.
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- Yep, and they are a T-Mobile MVNO,
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pretty reliable coverage there,
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especially if 5G is important to you
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because T-Mobile is leading the way in 5G.
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- Right, they really are.
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Our favorite cheap plan is $10 a month.
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It's Tello Mobile's one gigabyte plan.
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One gigabyte of high speed data,
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and then unlimited low
speed data after that.
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And that's true for the Mint
Mobile prepaid plan as well.
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Unlimited minutes, unlimited
messages, you know,
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pretty basic plan, pretty
cheap, $120 a year.
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- That's a good deal.
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A lot of people are at home nowadays,
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on wifi most of the time,
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you probably don't need
a lot of cellular data.
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You can save a ton of money.
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I mean, just do the math.
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- You can actually check
on your phone, too,
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see how much data you
using every single month,
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and if it's really low or if
you just don't use data at all
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because you have wifi all
the time, as you said,
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switch to a $10 a month plan.
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- Really easy to do.
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- So, I'm going to build a
calculator, David, for people.
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We'll drop a link in
the description below.
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You can go to upphone.com to
this calculator that I'm going
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to build between the time of right now
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and when this video comes out,
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and then you can see how
much data you use per month,
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if you go to the iPhone settings app.
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Should we show people
how to do it real quick?
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- [David] If you have an
iPhone, open the Settings app,
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tap cellular.
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First, look at this current period,
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44 gigabytes of data,
that might scare you.
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But the current period is
listed at the very bottom.
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So 44 gigabytes.
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But I last reset my statistics
on September 10th, 2020.
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- Wow.
- So I've used 44 gigabytes
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over the past 14, 15 months.
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And if you want to do a test for yourself,
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just tap Reset Statistics and
it'll do whole new period,
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I'm currently now at zero bytes.
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Our favorite Verizon plan
is the Verizon five gigabyte
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prepaid plan. We love it
so much we both have it.
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- We do, but David's sort of
falling out of love with it.
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- I am a little bit.
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So, first month is $40
- Yeah, 40 bucks,
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- And then, month two you
get the $5 auto pay discount.
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And then after three months
you get an additional $5 off,
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so now you're on a $30 per month.
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And then after nine months,
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it gets knocked down to $25 per month.
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So, if you've been on
the plan for a while,
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$25 a month on Verizon's network,
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five gigabytes of high speed data,
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then unlimited low speed
data, unlimited minutes,
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unlimited messages, mobile
hotspot, that's great.
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But if you're just
switching to this plan now,
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it's a little, uh, fuzzier.
- Yeah. I mean,
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it used to have more
international calling features.
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- Yeah. And now it no
longer includes calling
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to Canada and Mexico.
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the 15 gigabyte plan does.
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What I love about this
plan is, I have one line
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on my cell phone plan
and I can pay $25 a month
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on Verizon for one line.
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If I had many people,
if I was having a party,
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I'd go with Visible,
- Yep.
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- because then I could pay 25 bucks,
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but I don't have enough people.
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- Don't have any friends,
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if you don't have any friends,
- No friends.
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- there might be a better deal for you.
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- Right, exactly.
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- But Verizon, you know,
best carrier overall,
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they keep winning all the awards and,
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- Yeah, I think they might
also own the award companies,
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but,
- They might.
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- I'd like to welcome Hans Vestberg,
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chairman and CEO of
Verizon here to Apple Park.
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- This plan also includes
Verizon's 5G nationwide.
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That's their low band 5G.
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It's not necessarily faster
than 4G LTE all the time.
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I mean, I don't really have 5G anyway.
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And when I do, it's like I'm driving,
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I'm stopping at a gas station on a drive,
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and what am I going to do?
- Yeah, we've done that right?
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- We've done the 5G speed test,
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which actually found that the 5G speeds
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weren't always faster.
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- In fact, they're average
because 4G is built out more,
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- Yeah,
- average.
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I turn off 5G on my phone, who needs it?
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- So, when you're looking at
a cell phone plan in 2022,
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5G is not really something
you should be thinking
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about a ton, but it is,
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I mean, to some people it's important,
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but really unless you're
in like a major urban area
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where they have the high band 5G,
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- Yup. With good weather, because you need
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to be outside for it to work at all.
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Who needs cell phone service
that goes through doors,
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- Yeah,
- or windows?
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- Everyone.
- Everyone.
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- Our favorite AT&T plan
is an online exclusive,
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eight gigabyte prepaid plan.
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After eight gigabytes,
unlimited low speed data,
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unlimited minutes, unlimited messages,
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mobile hotspot included, $25 a month.
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but the catch is you pay
for the full year upfront.
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- Right, but the taxes really
aren't bad on this one.
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- Yeah, it comes at like
304, I think, so it's,
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- I don't know how they calculate that,
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that doesn't really make
a lot of sense, does it?
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And it's like, what, one
point something percent?
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- It's low, but if you can actually eat
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that $300 upfront cost, great plan.
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- It's a great plan.
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Yeah, eight gigabytes high-speed
data per month on AT&T,
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also a great carrier.
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- Yep.
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- And 25 bucks a month, again.
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- Yeah, now, if 5G is something
that's super important
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to you, AT&T is currently
losing the 5G race,
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- They are.
- they are in third place
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and it is not close.
- Nope.
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- And I just want to reiterate,
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this is an online exclusive offer,
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so we'll have links in
description to all of these plans,
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but you do need to sign
up for this one online.
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If you go into the
store, they're gonna say,
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we can't help you out there.
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- And you should buy this phone
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and you should buy carrier insurance
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and you should buy these accessories
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and you need to buy this unlimited plan
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because it's such a great deal.
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And then all of a sudden,
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your cell phone bill is $200 a month
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and you're like, what happened?
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- Now we've mentioned
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that the Verizon five
gigabyte prepaid plan
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doesn't have the
international feature anymore.
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This plan does include unlimited texting
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to over 200 countries, as
well as talk, text and data
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in Mexico and Canada.
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So that might be a
differentiating factor for you.
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- Yeah, that's cool.
- If that's important to you.
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- Yeah.
- T-Mobile.
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It was kind of hard to
pick the best T-Mobile plan
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because I really don't like the structure
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of their prepaid plans
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where the data caps are
actually hard data caps.
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So if you use that 2.5 gigabytes,
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- Really?
- you get cut off, yeah.
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- Wow, that's crazy.
- Yep.
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- Cut it out.
(laughter)
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- So what happens? No data?
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- So you get no data for
the rest of the month.
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- No data, just wifi, tough luck?
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- You get tough luck.
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So T-Mobile, we recommend
just paying all the way up.
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Get that Magenta Max plan,
especially if you have a family,
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you know, you get four lines for,
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I think it's $43 per month per line.
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- It's not bad.
- It's pretty good,
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and this plan is just, it
includes a whole ton of stuff.
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So, unlimited high-speed data
with no high-speed data cap.
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A Netflix basic for one line
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or Netflix standard for two or more lines,
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40 gigabytes of high
speed, mobile hotspot,
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a ton of awesome international features,
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including unlimited
minutes messages and data
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in Canada and Mexico.
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Access to T-Mobile Tuesday,
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which is T-Mobile's
customer rewards program.
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I think it's the best
rewards program out there
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and a whole bunch more.
- Yeah.
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- This plan for one line,
however, $85 per month.
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So, really that's a lot.
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T-Mobile also offers a 10
gigabyte simply prepaid plan
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for $40 a month, but you
can get the, you know,
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about the same plan on the same coverage,
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Mint Mobile is a T-Mobile
MVNO, for $20 a month,
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same amount of gigabytes of data, so,
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- Yeah, and if you're going
to pay 40 bucks a month
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go to Visible.
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- Yup.
- Yup.
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- Our best no data plan.
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My favorite is the Ting Flex plan,
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and it's different than
other no data plans
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where it actually gives
you the flexibility
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to add on one gigabyte
of data for $5 a month,
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so if you used no data, great $10 a month,
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but you also have that
flexibility in a pinch
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to pay $5 per gigabyte.
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Whereas some other, no data plans,
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just give you no flexibility,
and you're kind of
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on your own.
- Mhm, yeah.
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(dreamy harp music)
I'm trying
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to envision a situation
where someone would want
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to have a no data plan.
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(record scratching)
They just have wifi.
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- They just want minutes,
messages and wifi.
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- Minutes, message, wifi,
okay. Yeah. That's cool.
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So it's 10 bucks a month,
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but you don't have to pay for
more than one month at a time.
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- Yeah. It's a prepaid plan, so,
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- There you go.
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- So you know, you're
thinking Tello Mobile,
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$10 a month for one gigabyte
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then unlimited low speed data,
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whereas the Tang Flex plan,
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maybe you need two one
month for whatever reason,
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then it's $20,
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you just gotta be a little
bit careful with this plan
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because adding those gigabytes
can get really expensive
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over time, and if you find
yourself using, you know,
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three to five gigabytes a month,
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just to get a plan that
includes that for less money.
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- Yeah, totally.
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- Those are our favorite
cell phone plans of 2022.
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