Hi guys, David and David here from upphone.com and payetteforward.com, and in this video,
we're going to tell you about the best cell phone plans of April 2019.
Now, it's important to know that the best cell phone plan for you might not be the best
cell phone plan for someone else, and we'll break down those points in this video.
So first, probably the most important thing is coverage, because you don't have good coverage,
a cell phone plan is worthless.
Yeah, absolutely right.
So let's open up UpPhone, and in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, you can just
click on this button, which is the menu.
Click on coverage.
Scroll down to the little coverage map.
And you won't find this anywhere else on the internet.
We're kind of proud of it.
Yeah.
It's pretty good.
We spent a lot of time creating this map.
So I know there's coverage where I live at home, so I'm going to pick a place to check
which is a common place that I like to go on vacation and when I go skiing.
So let's type in Keene Valley, New York.
The map will zoom in here, and this is where you can compare all the major carriers coverage.
So we can take a look at AT&T.
I'll zoom out just a little bit.
You can see that it gets a little bit spotty over there on the right.
Take a look at Sprint.
Take a look at T-Mobile — no coverage in Keene Valley.
Oh, that's no good.
Yep.
And take a look at Verizon.
Good coverage.
Great coverage.
Yep, and also you can look by the specific type of coverage — LTE, 3G, and just regular
old voice.
I think it's a good idea to have the voice coverage myself.
So if I take a look at AT&T, there's nothing.
Sprint, good voice coverage.
T-Mobile, nothing.
Verizon, good voice coverage.
So if you're traveling to Keene Valley a lot, you might want you to plan that is Sprint
or Verizon.
Now if you're in a place like New York City, every carrier is going to have coverage, so
it's you know, less of a concern for you.
But we're more in Upstate New York where things get a little spotty sometimes.
So we're going to look at plans that are a good fit for individuals, some are a good
fit for families — some include mobile hotspot.
Let's just dive in and tell them about our favorite plan.
So our first plan we're going to talk about is the Verizon Prepaid Plan, and I mean, we
both have this plan.
And right now there's actually a really good deal for new customers on this plan.
And we want to tell you about that right now.
So if we take a look at Verizon's website — we'll link to this — you can take a
look at the prepaid family plan section.
First thing to check out here is you can get five dollars off per line when you sign up
for auto-pay.
Now, when I first signed up for my prepaid plan I asked if there was an auto-pay discount,
and there' wasn't, so this is a new thing.
It's even better than it used to be.
We see a lot of videos on YouTube where people say that smaller carriers that lease coverage
from the bigger carriers — they're called MVNOs, like Boost Mobile or Ting, or TextNow
— that they have the same coverage because they lease the coverage from a bigger network
like Verizon, but that's not necessarily true.
Even Verizon deprioritizes certain plans on their own network.
So, you know that they're going to be deprioritizing plans from the subcarriers.
So, and the carrier can tell, you know, this phone's connecting from Verizon.
This phone is connecting from Straight Talk.
This phone is connecting from TextNow.
Right.
And it wouldn't surprise us that see that Verizon is prioritizing its own customer base
over a other carrier.
Absolutely, and if they it was the same, all the networks would get the same reliability
scores, but they don't.
Verizon consistently gets the best, so it doesn't make sense to save they're all equal.
That's why we like Verizon.
So I removed a line here.
So just looking at one line plan — 35 bucks a month for Verizon.
First three gigabytes you get.
There's no overage charges.
You get 3 gigabytes of high-speed data and then it just slows down, which is kind of
cool.
This is actually the plan that I have, and I have never used more than three gigabytes.
Right.
That's usually because I have Wi-Fi, but if you're a person that doesn't have Wi-Fi all
the time, you might want to look at a higher gigabyte plan.
Right.
Let's say you're a commuter, and you're on the train, and you want to watch Netflix.
You can just bear in mind that Netflix is about 1 Gigabyte per hour of standard definition
video.
So if you bump this up though to the first 15 gigabytes, you get seven bonus gigs.
That used to be an 8 gigabyte plan.
45 bucks a month.
This is the special promotion they're doing right now.
It ends actually at the end of April.
Yeah.
If this is interesting to you, this is a really good plan.
And it's good if you need multiple lines as well, because you can add a couple of lines
here.
Yeah.
You also get a multi-line discount, of what?
$10 a month.
Yes.
It's Great.
Yeah.
So, I mean, three lines on Verizon — 85 bucks a month.
No overage charges.
This is a really good deal.
Highly recommend this deal.
Yeah, plus all the latest smartphones are compatible with Verizon's networks.
You have the iPhone XR, the iPhones XS Max, the new Samsung, the 10E, or whatever it is
now.
Yeah.
So overall this is, I mean, this is my favorite plan for sure, and it's actually my plan now,
so yeah, no bias there.
Yeah.
You get hotspot too and you get all the premium features.
We're going to talk about some other plans now.
Yeah, there are — there are other plans in this video.
The next one is the Sprint unlimited basic plan.
Right.
And there's a good promo on this right now.
This is good for larger families because you can get five lines for what, $20 a line?
Yep, 20 bucks a line.
Yeah.
So it's more expensive if you get fewer lines, but if you're getting five lines, 20 bucks
a month per line for unlimited data on Sprint — It's a good deal.
They say it's $1,000 savings your first year over Verizon and AT&T.
That's, you know, that's a lot of money.
Yeah.
Click here — make the switch.
Just something to be aware of on Sprint's website: You can bring your own phone.
Make sure to click the bring your own phone button.
It'll have you enter a little code for your phone, and then you can set that up.
But, check this out too!
Like, iPhone XR — a new phone.
Sprint Flex Lease, I think it's called?
Yep. 15 bucks a month.
So let's say you wanted to add a new phone, yep, and get unlimited data on five lines
— five new iPhone XRs.
Yep.
That's $175 a month for five new iPhones and an unlimited data plan for each phone.
Hello!
People are paying more than that for two lines.
That's I mean, it's a really good deal.
It's a crazy deal.
Yeah.
Great — crazy deal.
Hop on sprint.com, follow our link.
Yep, we've got a link in the card above, and the description below.
Got a friend?
A dog?
So the last plan want to talk about here is the Straight Talk Wireless 25 gigabyte plan.
They've added more date of this plan.
It used to be lower — their $45 a month plan.
And now it's 25 gigabytes, which is like it's basically unlimited data.
Yeah, first 25 gigabytes at high speed, then back to 2G.
And just note that Verizon and AT&T — they don't even give you 25 gigabytes before they
throttle you back.
Yeah, their unlimited plans — most of them are 22 or 23 gigabytes.
So yeah, pretty great deal here.
You don't get mobile hotspot.
You don't get some of the premium features that you'll get on Verizon, but I think that
this is a great plan for people that have to commute to work.
Because...
One gigabyte per hour of Netflix.
Yep.
If you have less than 20 gigs, 20 work days, you're gonna run out of the ability to watch
your favorite shows.
Now, the drawback here was Straight Talk is that they don't have multi-line plans, so
you're not going to get a family plan discount here like you would on Sprint or Verizon.
But for individuals, great plan.
They also have service packages, with 3 months, 6 months, 12 months.
You can get the 12 month plan.
25 gigabytes a month for $495, which is like $41.25 per month.
Just a crazy good deal.
Right.
And so, Straight Talk is one of those sub-carriers — MVNOs — mobile virtual network operators.
They actually lease coverage from all four major carriers.
So in terms of reliability, they're probably a decent MVNO.
Right, and if you wanted to check to see what their coverage was, you can actually hit back
to the UpPhone coverage map.
And under here, more carriers.
Let's find Straight Talk.
There it is.
And it will tell you that Straight uses AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile's cellular networks.
Just click out of that, zoom out, and you can take a look at the colorful coverage map
because they use everybody.
Look at that!
So those are the best cell phone plans of 2019.
Not just 2019 — April 2019.
So we're getting really specific here.
April 2019.
Thank you guys for watching this video.
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