[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Visible Cellular

Thu May 9 03:29:44 PDT 2024

To Drew:

Good find! When Visible was first announced about five years ago, I 
don't think they offered international roaming.

I'm currently on Consumer Cellular which does not really offer 
international roaming while my wife is on a more costly Verizon plan 
that does.

We may reconsider...

-- Mitch

On 2024-05-08 23:00, Drew King via LCTG wrote:

> 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 from 3 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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