[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Visible Cellular

[Drew King]

All,

A follow-up to the discussion we had prior to the meeting this morning:

International service IS available. They support 140 countries!

Prior to the meeting, someone was interested in international travel 
rates, and it turns out that if you're on the Premium plan you have 
access to a global Service that includes 140 countries and the rate is 
$10 per day. You can read about all the details on their website.

https://www.visible.com/globalpass



Old carrier: Verizon.
New carrier: Visible. (A subsidiary of Verizon)

I was paying approximately $85/month. This came with 2 or 3 GB data/month.
Using with a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone that was older, and I had no 
incentives or offers from Verizon to get a discount on a new phone.

My new starting service rate at Visible when the plan was bundled with 
the financing was $37 all in.

I paid full price for the phone, and my monthly payment went from $85 
with Verizon to $37 with Visible. And, my monthly allotment of data went 
from3 GB to unlimited.

If you have a qualifying phone, you can bring it to Visible.

A friend of mine from college told me about his plan with Visible. At 
the time the company was offering a party plan and the more people you 
had in your party the better your discount. I joined his party with my 
own account and got started with a monthly fee of $25 All In. No 
additional fees.

The basic plan is now $25 for everyone.

It looks like they bumped the premium plan to $45. I'm still paying $35.

If you wish, you can pay annually, and save. The monthly rate averages 
about $32.

It had unlimited calling and text.
Unlimited data.
Unlimited hotspot capped to make it pretty slow.

I have since upgraded to their Premium plan, which is $35 per month. 
Actually, I just checked out their website, and it looks like it went up 
to $45, and I'm probably grandfathered in to the $35 rate.


This includes access to Verizon's higher speed 5G networking that makes 
the phone operate faster, and I have a program that I use that spoofs 
the hotspot into working pretty close to full speed. I just got 85 MB 
down and 10 MB up, which is pretty slow for when I test it. Sometimes I 
can get 300 MB down or more.

With the $25 a month plan, I had difficulty streaming live video.
The $35 per month plan does not have this problem.

I purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S21 and financed it for 24 months 
through their financing company. I'm not sure if they still offer it but 
at the time they had a midpoint upgrade plan if you wanted to up in and 
what that did for you is allow you to upgrade after one year to the 
newer model phone, and they take your old phone back and pay off the 
remaining balance of your old phone. This way, if you want, you can 
always have every year a brand-new phone. It's like leasing a car you 
always have a payment, and you never own it.

My phone is now several Generations back and paid off.

They only offer one form of communication for sales and technical 
support and that is a chat session either through their mobile app or 
website. There are no phone numbers to call and talk to a human being. 
In three plus years, I have not found this to be a problem.

On the day that I signed up and purchased the new phone, they sent me in 
the mail overnight delivery the brand-new phone along with a Sim chip 
that I needed to install. I Then followed the default Samsung process to 
migrate from my old phone to my new phone. Samsung provides with all of 
their Galaxy phones a really nice built-in upgrade tool that moves 
pretty much everything on your old phone to your new phone and even 
creates folders with apps in them.

My phone is stock Samsung with no extra carrier software.

I contacted Verizon and got a release code for my service that I 
provided to visible and after my new phone was configured I ran their 
app and told it I was ready and about 45 minutes later my new phone was 
active and the old phone was deactivated.

Verizon sent me a prorated bill for the month that ended on the day that 
the service got transferred to visible.

They have a referral program, so if any of you decide to enroll, I can 
give you a code that will give both of us a discount for one month.

Visible supports the Apple Watch with LTE, unfortunately I can't say the 
same for the Samsung watch that I own.

If you go to their website, https://visible.com you can check out 
everything and for those of you who are curious about international 
service you can read about the differences between the two plans.


Drew.
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