Verizon adds $50 unlimited prepaid plan

From CNET News.com: Verizon Wireless planted a bigger flag in prepaid this week with the announcement of its new "Verizon Unleashed" plans. Though only available in Southern California and most of Florida for the time being, the plans offers unlimited services for $50 per month.

Verizon Unleashed will offer subscribers unlimited calling minutes regardless of time of day, unlimited calls to other Verizon subscribers, unlimited domestic messaging, and unlimited messaging to select carriers in Canada and Mexico. Unlimited mobile Web is a feature as well, though the plan is not available on handsets that have full HTML browsers.

Verizon has long offered prepaid plans, but the $50 price point is significantly less than its current $94.99 plan for unlimited calling and texts. It also puts Big Red in direct competition with long-established prepaid operators like MetroPCS and Cricket Wireless, which offer prepaid plans in the same range.

A comparison between the various options, however, shows that price alone may not be enough for Verizon to steal customers from its rivals. Granted, Verizon offers a nationwide home network, but the smaller carriers can counter with free nationwide roaming.

If you don't want a monthly fee, you can opt for pay-as-you go pricing. For $1.99 per day you'll get unlimited calling, but text and multimedia messages will be two cents each. Alternatively, for 99 cents per day, only calls to other Verizon subscribers will be unlimited. All other calls will be 10 cents per minute and text messages will be 10 cents each.

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