Verizon pUDP Alert: Unlimited Jetpack $65/Mo Plan Cancellations for Excessive Domestic Roaming

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Last May Verizon retired their sweet prepaid unlimited Jetpack plan, which we refer to as the pUDP, for $65/month. This plan offered truly unlimited data for mobile hotspot devices, subject only to network management.
Even though the plan was retired, customers who keep paying the monthly bill have thus far been grandfathered and can keep the plan.
However, we've begun to get isolated reports that Verizon is canceling these plans for some customers due to excessive domestic roaming use - "significant amount of usage outside the Verizon network."
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www.rvmobileinternet.com/veri...
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@scotthoran3704 4 года назад

I got on this plan the day before it was retired thanks to you guys, and it has served me very well ever since, If I get a cancellation notice then Verizon will lose my business forever.

@RvNut 4 года назад

Same here, so far so good, but cancel me, and I am gone for good!

@624Mike 4 года назад

Thanks for the update! Got this plan and the 8800 last May thanks to you. Keep up the good work.

@ScottyDoesntKnooooowwww 4 года назад

Thank you for the update!

@duckthis17 4 года назад

Thank you!! Great information

@NomadicLiving 4 года назад

Thanks for the heads up!

@yogiyoda 4 года назад

Thanks for the update!

@DoctorRennie 4 года назад

Bummer. Thanks for the info!

@janicevoss864 4 года назад

Thank you!! Great information but sad.

@bruceh3786 4 года назад

Interesting. I had thought the plan didn't have roaming so I have never looked for it. I will start looking now! Thanks for letting us know.

@rockerscale 4 года назад

Thanks for the information. I use this for my home internet as no other service is available at the price. I definitely do not want to risk loosing this.

@n1uno1965 4 года назад

Wow, thank you for staying on top of all this info! 👍🏻

@KendraCoakleyPense 4 года назад

Thank you!!!!

@takencareofbidness 4 года назад

Thank you for letting us know. I use Verizon at my home in a very rural area. About the end of November it became unusably slow. Like dial-up. As the Technomads indicated in one of their recent videos this is probably because of the snowbirds filling up the RV parks here in southern New Mexico. But even the Verizon store people a half hour away have been complaining about their towers not being up to task for the last several years. I have complained many times. They, so far, will not upgrade their towers or equipment. Some of my neighbors have gone to HughesNet recently out of desperation. It's hard to believe Verizon would rather lose customers than pay for additional equipment to handle the load. Maybe the competition is just too fierce. Will be interesting to see what happens when the up-and-coming satellite companies start service.

@alanjg11 4 года назад

As 5G takes off it will probably ease some of the burdens off of 4G thus improving service, I hope.

@wpiofm 4 года назад

Well, I wonder if those Netbuddy AT&T unlimited sim cards still work.

@glennbeattie6172 4 года назад

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

@jimgoff268 4 года назад

Had Nextel which was bought out by sprint. After years of sprint, started traveling to rural Georgia in 2011. After a couple of years, sprint started slowing my service down or stopping the roaming when in Georgia and could only roam. That’s when we changed to Verizon phones. I had an old pcmcia card from the mid 2000s that was unlimited from Verizon. Had it over 10 years until they said it would no longer be supported because it was 3g. But now have the prepaid jet pack and haven’t had any issues.

@MisterWhatWhat 4 года назад

I love this channel. Binge watching tonight :)

@the_fry_way 4 года назад

Thanks so much! I've updated my settings on our 8800 jetpack just to make sure we're not roaming! We use your app for coverage and mostly stay on Verizon. I was introduced to this plan by you guys and thank you! ~Lynette

@gillz107 4 года назад

How do you update your settings to make sure you're not roaming?

@jkneeshaw 4 года назад

Yep, they canceled my unlimited plan for excessive roaming 10/10/2019. Internet just stopped working one day. No email notice. Didn't even give me the full month I prepaid for, and it was hell to get a hold of anyone that could help. Just got bounced around a phone tree and disconnected multiple times. Eventually got the bad news via their support team on facebook messenger. 🤮

@CincinnatiReefer 4 года назад

thank you!

@rgallant47 4 года назад

You guys are the best! Thank you for informing me. I will be very upset if I receive cancellation as I am on fixed income.

@philliprhinehardt6268 4 года назад

This is some great information.

@jimdelucia9127 4 года назад

What do you think about the $20.00 a month plan with ATT and Verizon that are on some of the RU-vid sites.

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

We are hearing AT&T is already cracking down on those plans used in non-tablets.

@diamlierx 4 года назад

All cell companies now days seem very slimy ,they’re always trying to get away with some shenanigans.

@jeffreygoldman8120 4 года назад

I'm confused. Why doesn't Verizon just stop domestic roaming for prepaid users of the $65 jetpack plan? Most prepaid plans don't include any domestic roaming. Also, I don't see any mention of the $65 jetpack plan; this isn't for regular prepaid handset plans?

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

You would think they could restrict roaming. So far we've only heard of notices going out to the retired Jetpack unlimited plan.

@jaymondy 4 года назад

one take and done.... what a pro!

@michaelh465 4 года назад

Those greedy jerks. We all know they're making MASSIVE profits from these data plans. But it's apparently still not enough.

@JamesonsTravels 4 года назад

Surprised it took Verizon this long.

@philhyde983 4 года назад

Thought you guys were back in the bus?

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

We ended our bus season a few weeks ago.. back in the van, on the way to the boat.

@shontalthompson5261 4 года назад

Sounds like something Verizon would do. They have great products and coverage, but they will always shaft you when it come to charges and thing like this. They are like the Wells Fargo or Bank of America of mobile carriers.

@fletcher3913 4 года назад

Sounds like a good reason for a Class Action suit.

@firstnamelastname776 3 года назад

hahhah, good luck with that so called class action suits, no consumer benefits from those so called class action suits!

@fletcher3913 3 года назад

@@firstnamelastname776 I am well aware the consumer gets next to nothing from Class Action Suits, but in this case, it might smack some sense into Verzion.

@tyellowdragon 4 года назад

It seems like the carriers are really going after these OG plans across the industry... Interesting....

@firstnamelastname776 3 года назад

og plan?? to lazy to type it out!

@adamotak5145 4 года назад

Does Verizon have any unlimited plan for laptops

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

Not at present time.

@adamotak5145 4 года назад

Is it possible to get Get more unlimited plan which 90$ and put it into jet pack and use for all of my devices I am always on the road

@baonamnguyenvan7478 4 года назад

WOWOWOW

@FollowingtheYellowBrickRoad 4 года назад

It happened to me on January 6th

@jimdelucia9127 4 года назад

The turned me off without telling me. They put me on a 15 gig plan.

@revbikerbigd8664 4 года назад

Take them to Court!

@lilricky2515 4 года назад

Its in the agreement.

@firstnamelastname776 3 года назад

good luck! it will be a waste of time!

@musashi-san____1409 4 года назад

I lost my jetpack last year, and the Verizon store had no clue how to reactivate my plan grandfathered plan. If your sim dies, or you lose the jetpack... you have to call Verizon and tell them to reactivate using a new sim card.

@michaelo9039 4 года назад

Sounds like all the carriers are trying to discontinue unlimited plans or put a lot of restrictions or cost on them. This is something that the price should actually be coming down and it is doing just the opposite. Hopefully we can hold on until satellite internet becomes viable.

@loukalter5998 4 года назад

Sounds pretty Shady to me, shame on you Verizon. Go figure the carrier with the most assets would do something like this.

@Computergk91Gaming Год назад

They have every right to shut you off if are costing them more than they make off you then every right to shut you off or move your plan I use to on the prepaid unlimted plan and canceled it now on the postpaid tablet unlimted plan with insurance I upgrade my tablet earlier in the year with a 5g tablet roaming is very expensive

@DisabledNomads 4 года назад

If they cancel us, we're screwed.

@SmokyMountainBlessed 4 года назад

I don’t have the Verizon jet pack but that stinks

@switchblade.saints 4 года назад

my grandparents decided that this would be a terrific investment, and fully got rid of their regular wifi. my grandpa is almost never home bc hes always traveling. with coronavirus going around, my brother and i are living with them so that we dont catch it from our mom or dad (they go out a lot). we have online school and we have to use their jetpack in order to do anything on our computers, and when they go over the limit for the hotspot, it throttles the speed. this is very disturbing, especially if it happens because of my grandpa constantly bringing his hotspot everywhere, because then my brother and i wont be able to do our work or anything. verizon needs to stop trying to screw its customers over, otherwise they wont have any.

@Flexin010 4 года назад

They lost me as a customer long ago. Oh well like they care 😅. Wait till starlink is out. See ya verizon!! 🕺🕺🏽

@keithmoore7515 4 года назад

How is this not illegal? We buy these to move from place to place. It would seem a class action would scare them or the threat of one. Grandfathered means grand fathered. They have always honored this through the years even if it cost them money. I just can't see how this is legal. Maybe we could flood corp. with emails and bad publicity?

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

It's a prepaid plan - they can terminate for any reason they like.

@jimseyuin9746 4 года назад

Here's an idea..... Change to TMobile and break the monopoly. You can always go back when Verizon realizes that they are losing customers and redirect themselves. Good luck!

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

T-Mobile doesn't have an unlimited hotspot plan to switch to... and nor is their coverage always the best for RVers.

@jimseyuin9746 4 года назад

@@MobileInternetResourceCenter Right. To my knowledge, none of the carriers offer a truly unlimited data only plan anymore. I have a rural cabin and I've tried all LTE service providers for internet.(except for Sprint which has no service coverage.) Verizon and At&t both have a problem on their way with the new merger. T-Mobile is cheaper and many people will be switching for that reason. T-Mobile has a better marketing plan and has bee growing anyway. The two larger providers are going to have to lower prices and offer what people are looking for, or lose the market. It's all a game in the end. I love your channel, It is what helped me to get started with my search for a better internet connection The previous is only an opinion, good luck!

@inmyimage1081 4 года назад

I sense class action lawsuit coming...

@firstnamelastname776 3 года назад

wont do anything!

@kdanagger6894 4 года назад

StarLink can't come soon enough. The existing wireless carriers are all going to become irrelevant for mobile and wireless rural internet. Their only market will be phone and tablet users which require a tiny internal antenna. StarLink (and other potential rivals such as OneWeb) use thin flat-panel phased array antennas that lie flat and point straight up. There are no "dishes" like with satellite TV and current satellite internet services such as Hughesnet and ViaSat. Dishes are for geostationary satellites that orbit 22,000 miles up and are locked into a fixed position on the sky. Low orbit satellites such as StarLink move across the sky constantly - the ground antennas must track the satellites constantly 24/7/365. This is not done with dishes. DIshes must be moved mechanically which can not be done continuously for days, weeks, months, and years on end. Instead, they use phased array antennas which are steered electronically with no moving parts. In their simplest form this is perfect for mobile applications where the antenna relatively motionless. With the addition of gyros and accelerometers in the antenna, they can be accurately track satellites from a moving vehicle because electronic beam steering can be done *very* quickly. A revolution in mobile and rural internet access is coming - and it can't get here soon enough.

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

We are closely tracking satellite as well, for all our coverage: www.rvmobileinternet.com/satellite

@jimmast2509 4 года назад

I was reading an article in Fierce Wireless a year or so ago, reporting on a speech being given at a wireless providers convention, I think it was the president of Verizon, talking about what providers charge each others for data. He talked about the charge being .25 per gigabyte. Yes, twenty five cents per gig is what there charging each other when roaming. Canceling these plans is pure greed, nothing more.

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

We've heard numbers that are as high as a couple hundred dollars a GB for some roaming partnerships.

@Freespirit5371 4 года назад

Verizon created an unlimited plan and entered into a contract with its users based on the unlimited plan that Verizon created but now Verizon wants to cancel the plan because those users used too much "unlimited" service. It is games like this that lead me to leave Verizon years ago!

@MobileInternetResourceCenter 4 года назад

It's prepaid - there's no contract. And TOS does state they can terminate at any time.

@Freespirit5371 4 года назад

@@MobileInternetResourceCenter Even prepaid is a contract, and yes, Verizon created the plan to benefit themselves but because their customers actually thought unlimited meant unlimited they should now be punished for using the services they thought they were entitled to use.

@imxploring 4 года назад

Basically there is no such thing as an unlimited plan these days if at some point these companies can unilaterally decide that you're using too much data and simply terminate your contract or eliminate the plan.

@Freespirit5371 4 года назад

@@imxploring That is exactly my point. Verizon created the plan which they said was an unlimited plan, customers purchased equipment based on the offer Verizon made and the customers entered into a contract with Verizon, even if that contract was month to month. The point I am trying to make is that these companies don't care about their customers, they only care about how much money they can squeeze out of their customers. People only want to be treated fairly and when companies treat people fairly the people will respond in kind. Sadly, too many large corporations have lost sight of that fact.

@imxploring 4 года назад

@@Freespirit5371 Completely agree.... they churn customers out constantly and force them to jump from company to company. The metrics they use are new customers and equipment sales... they care little about current customers as they know they can abuse them and even in doing so a good percentage will stay with them out of simple laziness. Same applies to cable and satellite TV providers. The simple route is to buy a cheap phone and jump providers when they play these games. I've done it for years and use prepaid with a basic Samsung phone. Currently using the ATT/Walmart $40/25gig plan that includes full hotspot. And when ATT plays their game, which they will, I'll jump to who ever is offering the best deal at that time!

@davidmcconnell8690 4 года назад

:-))) :-)))

@midwestguy8771 4 года назад

Verizon network is becoming over taxed. I think that is why this happening.

@servicegeezermike6271 4 года назад

Midwest Guy , yeah, not to mention the simple fact what a greedy company this is...like all of them.

@rrzackman6672 4 года назад

I just wanted to say that Cherie Ve Ard is smoking Hot , I would love to go and tour the country with her , Her better half needs to kiss the ground she walks on and consider themselves the luckiest person on the face of the planet to be with this woman smoking hot