Visible Ending 'Party Plan'

[markcee]

Visible wireless is ending its party plan:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/visible-r...now-10-cheaper

It looks like the party plan sign up (providing 'unlimited' wireless, including hotspot) service will be grand-fathered, including new sign-ups, until 10/18/22. For those unfamiliar, Visible is owned by Verizon and allows service at $40 per month for a single user, dropping down $5 per line each month, for up to 4 users. Additional users do not need to be 'friends and family' types.

It appears this plan restructure will now provide the service that existing users have (4G/low band 5G) at $30 per month, or they can upgrade to 5G ultra wide band and a 'premium network experience' for $45 per month. Both plans continue to provide unlimited hotspot data.

I'm assuming the 'premium network experience' removes the caveat that true Verizon subscribers receive priority access during high volume periods.

Since I'm down to two 'party' lines, which means $35 each, sounds like I should opt in for the new $30 plan or, go 'all in' on the $45 plan.

For the cell tech savvy....it sounds like there should be, but is there an obvious advantage to the 5G ultra wide plan? Particularly for streaming?

[wiredgeorge]

I think 5G on Verizon towers will not reach many campgrounds that are rural and would suggest you will be on 4G LTE at best anyway. Didn't know Verizon owned Visible. I was kind of shocked when Consumer Cellular offered unlimited data/with hot spot for a similar price so I just paid a couple bucks more for unlimited data. We were on 35 gigs of data each which should likely have been more than sufficient. If you top your allotment, CC just bumps you to the next plan anyway.

[sourdough]

Thanks Mark. I upgraded my Visible plan as soon as I saw your post. It wasn't super easy as their website/apps wanted to be a pain and their "chat" stuff is slow. It did not want to change my information (I had an account) from the phone that had the Visible number. Had to use a different phone, add the app and change it. Probably an anomaly for today but I got it done. Thanks.