Verizon Switches Focus to New Simplicity Phone Plan. Here’s What You’re Paying For

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If you go to Verizon’s website to investigate the company’s phone plans, you might think the new Simplicity plan is the only option. Introduced alongside the Verizon Shine loyalty program, Simplicity is a streamlined unlimited phone plan with a key improvement over the regular entry-level unlimited plan (which is still available along with the other MyPlan options).

The Simplicity plan costs $45 per line, but switchers who bring their number to Verizon pay $30 per month. For that, you get unlimited data, roaming in Canada and Mexico, 10GB of fast mobile hotspot data, and satellite texting.

That’s just $5 more than Verizon’s entry-level Unlimited Welcome plan, but with a key difference. Verizon differentiates Unlimited Welcome from its other tiers by capping 5G speeds. Only the Unlimited Plus and Unlimited Ultimate plans enable the fastest 5G Ultra Wideband speeds. The Simplicity Plan gets faster data in areas where 5G UW...

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