Verizon may finally be adding LTE to its prepaid services, according to the folks at Droid Life. This change would will reportedly take effect on July 17th and the carrier will offer this new service through its ALLSET prepaid plans that include unlimited talk, text and 500MB of date for $45 a month. Customers using this off-contract setup can add 500MB of data for $5, 1GB for $10 and 3GB for $20. It’s unclear if Verizon’s prepaid LTE customers will experience full 4G speeds or if the carrier will throttle connections to reduce network stress. So far rumored prepaid-friendly Android handsets include the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the LG G2. We’ve reached out to Verizon for comment and will update things here if the carrier provides any new details.
According to sources of ours, Verizon prepaid is finally getting access to the carrier’s massive 4G LTE network come July 17. As those of you in the prepaid game know, Verizon has lagged behind others in terms of prepaid data speeds, leaving their customers on 3G-only, which is painful on Big Red’s incredibly slow CDMA network. That is about to change, but you now have to decide if their plan is worth considering. On July 17, Verizon’s ALLSET prepaid plan, which features unlimited talk and text plus 500MB of data for $45, will gain 4G LTE access. BRIDGE DATA can be added to that plan to help grow the data bucket. Verizon’s site currently sells BRIDGE DATA at 500MB for $5, 1GB for $10, or 3GB for $20. Assuming those plan add-ons do not change before the 17th, you could get into Verizon prepaid with 4G LTE and have 3.5GB of data for $65 per month. Verizon is also running a promo that can land you another 500MB of free data just for signing up for auto-pay, so we could be looking at 4GB of LTE data with unlimited talk/text for $65. Once ALLSET with 4G LTE is live on the 17th, you will be able to sign-up through Verizon’s website, direct/indirect channels, and by calling customer service.
