- David and David here,
let's talk about the best 5G cell phone plans.
- Does anybody watching this video
need a 5G cell phone plan, David?
- Not immediately.
- Maybe not, but we are gonna talk about the best ones,
but we also need to talk about
the problem with 5G right now
is that it really isn't rolled out, you know, nationwide.
I mean, they say it is,
but a lot of the places where 5G is
there's stronger 4G, you can watch our other video
about, like, where 4G is actually faster than 5G
in a lot of places, because there's just better signal.
So when you see this nationwide 5G,
we're gonna talk about this today.
It's low-band 5G. And what is that?
- Well, that's just the slowest 5G.
It has the best range, slowest speeds.
- Right.
- Not really faster than 4G.
- It's the base layer, 'cause 5G is not one thing.
5G is an idea, it's a philosophy.
It's a combination, it is, actually,
a combination of cell technologies.
So you've got your base layer, which is the slowest 5G,
and that's everywhere, nationwide, 5G.
- Not everywhere, but yeah.
- It's everywhere that it is.
- Okay.
- Yeah, It's not everywhere.
It's totally not everywhere, David's right.
So you get your base layer,
then you got your mid-band 5G,
which is a happy medium between the high band 5G,
which is ridiculously fast, but has a terrible range,
meaning it can't go through walls, so that's helpful.
- And then the problem with mid-band 5G right now though,
it sounds great, and it probably will be great,
it's just not there yet.
- [David Lynch] It's literally not there yet.
- You're here for the plans,
let's talk about the Verizon 5GB prepaid plan.
As we were just talking about,
this includes the Verizon nationwide 5G,
it's just low-band 5G.
- Low band, slow band.
How did we never think about that before?
Slow-band 5G.
- Even though the 5G on this plan is kinda mediocre,
it actually is a really good plan.
We both have this plan, 5 GB of
high-speed data per month, unlimited minutes,
unlimited messages, mobile hotspot included.
- And if you wanna step up, I mean,
this is like a $300 a year plan.
You can step up to the 15 GB plan,
which is not that much more expensive.
The only drawback is that you have to pay 35 bucks a month
to start for three months,
then 30 for the next six.
- And then after the nine months, it's $25 a month.
- Forever.
It's a great deal for Verizon.
So I was at my friend Dan's house the other day.
Does this have anything to do with the video?
Yes.
So I'm walking up the stairs, and was using the internet,
which was not safe, but I was doing that.
So I'm walking up the stairs, and I noticed that
my phone kicks from LTE to 5G.
And all of a sudden, I lost my data connection.
Why?
Because the 5G signal wasn't as strong as the LTE signal.
So, all of a sudden, my phone wasn't working.
Dan never noticed it, cause he just
connects to wifi in his apartment, of course.
- Makes sense, smart.
Which is what you should do at home too.
- Exactly.
If you're not connected to wifi, hop on that wifi train.
It's a good thing.
- If you wanna try out the Verizon ultra wide band 5G,
our favorite Verizon plan with that is the Play More Plan.
Lot of great perks with this plan.
Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu.
Apple music.
- I'm a little bit more skeptical.
I mean, David is skeptical too.
When you start bundling all these services together,
do you really wanna play that much?
It's just that they're, trying to get you
to pay for an overpriced plan
by including all this other, you know, like,
look at the shiny red ball over here, you know?
It's just an unlimited data plan.
- It's a good unlimited data plan.
- It is, but it's more expensive.
You don't have to pay this much money
for a cell phone plan.
- Yeah, well, I mean you can get
the Verizon prepaid $25 a month, plus, you know,
your subscriptions to this, plus your Apple Music,
and get the same coverage, essentially.
- Yeah, you can save a lot of money.
I mean, if you really want, you know, Hulu and Disney+.
And, you know, we also wanted to note that
this particular plan doesn't have
the 600 GB of Verizon cloud storage.
- Yes, that's the Do More Plan.
- Yeah, could be a deal-breaker for you.
Should be called the Store More Plan.
- Yes.
This plan, $80 a month for one line.
Once you start adding lines, the price goes down.
- Yeah, get the prepaid plan.
- Get the prepaid plan, if you're going with Verizon.
Next, let's talk about a pretty interesting plan.
This is a Verizon MVNO, visible wireless.
$40 a month for their plan.
It's the starting price, unlimited minutes, messages, data.
Mobile hotspot's included,
but the top speed is 5 MB per second,
which is not great, it's okay.
- That's not 5G.
- It's not 5G, it's slower than 4G.
It's between like 3G and 4G, in terms of speed.
- But it's still fast enough to do a lot of stuff.
- Sure.
And one great thing about this plan,
so there's Party Pay, where if you add
up to four people into your party,
you pay $25 a month for your limited data plan.
But Visible also has a deal.
When you refer a friend, unlimited data, $5 a month.
- Right. So Visible is good.
But it's only for a month, right?
- [David Payette] Only for a month.
- [David Lynch] What a deal.
- [David Payette] What a deal.
- The Visible plan, the Party Pay thing,
is targeted at, and is a good deal for college kids,
because it's kind of like a family plan,
but they designed it so that it could be
a group of roommates.
You don't have to be related to them.
They made it really easy for people to split the cost.
- Yeah, and everyone is responsible for their own plan.
So, you know, you don't have to
go Venmo your other roommates every month.
Just take care of it yourself.
As we said, Verizon MVNO, you get the 5G with this plan.
- Yeah, it's a cool idea.
- Next, let's talk about Ting's Set 5 GB Plan.
- I like this plan.
- Ting recently revamped all of their plans.
Ting is a Dish Network MVNO.
Dish Mobile, excuse me.
- Dish Mobile.
- MVNO, but they can also use T-Mobile's net towers
for the foreseeable future, which is for years to come.
So you're essentially signing up for a T-Mobile plan,
If you go with the Set 5 GB Plan.
- Yeah, 5 GB, high speed data, 5G included with that
on T-Mobile's network, who they have the best 5G.
- They do.
Verizon and AT&T are mad, because T-Mobile
has more than twice Verizon and AT&T's
combined low-band 5G spectrum.
- Yeah.
- It's interesting, isn't it?
- Yeah.
Unlimited minutes, unlimited messages
included with this plan.
It's sort of like the Verizon plan,
in terms of pricing, but you don't have to wait
nine months to get that $25 a month price.
- What a great deal.
- [David Payette] It's a good deal.
- It's just, if you need Verizon coverage,
this is not the plan.
It's a T-Mobile.
- If you'd rather just go for the real McCoy,
T-Mobile Magenta, $70 a month.
Another plan with a lot of perks.
So it has the 5G, including the low-band,
the mid-band, and high-band.
- Right. It's got all the bands.
- All the bands.
T-Mobile Tuesdays, eligible for that.
You get every Tuesday, deals, coupons,
discounts, cool stuff with that.
Netflix basics subscription included with this plan.
- [David Lynch] Wow.
- So you're getting a lot of value there.
I dunno if we do the math,
might not work out to be so great.
But the drawback here,
so you get that 100 GB high-speed data cap,
but I thought that'd be great for mobile hotspot.
Like, you know, I wanna go,
and I wanna work on the go.
- It's like 3 GB a day of mobile hotspot,
which is great.
- The problem is mobile hotspot capped at 5 GB a month.
- Right. So you're supposed to, somehow,
use 100 GB of high-speed data on just your phone?
- Tough, it'd be tough to do.
- Yeah, it would be.
So, it's a little bit of a flashier number then.
I mean, they know what they're doing here.
They know what they're doing.
Did you know that T-Mobile
tried to copyright magenta?
They've been suing people, because
the pinks have been too close.
- Gotcha.
- But they keep losing the lawsuits.
- Trying to copyright a color.
- Yep.
Well, I mean, Louis Vuitton pulled it off,
other places pulled it off, but not T-Mobile.
- Yeah, so we didn't mention an AT&T plan in this video.
There are prepaid plans, except for the
unlimited plus prepaid plan,
which is not worth the money.
They don't include 5G at all.
- Right, nonezo.
- Yeah.
- So you can get the 5G on AT&T,
but you have to get an unlimited plan,
and they're expensive.
- I'd rather go with T-Mobile.
- Right.
Go with T-Mobile, or I'd rather go with Verizon.
- Verizon, or Ting, Visible.
- Yeah, AT&T is a little bit slow to the party.
- I think they also have the worst 5G
of the major carriers so far.
- They do, yeah.
- Those are the best 5G cell phone plans of 2021.
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