HOT! Verizon Wireless Off-Peak Minutes All Day on Christmas Day!

[beatmix01]

Just called Verizon 611 and they said this on your their pre-recorded message...

All Peak Airtime minutes will be billed as off-peak airtime minutes.

(except some customers in Indiana and Kentucky)

 

[Led Zeppelin]

All holiday's are considered off-peak.

 

[DieselMan]

BostonRedSox, are you sure of your claim? I remember my minutes quickly fading away on Verizon last year on Thanksgiving. I could be wrong, but AFAIK, holidays are not considered off-peak, unless otherwise advertised (such as today). Perhaps Verizon permanently changed its policy, but I would like to hear about this from more people.

btw, Merry Christmas to everybody. I think it's been over a year since I last posted a message on Anandtech. I rarely have time to surf online these days, but I do glimpse at the forums once in a while.

 

[rasputinj]

The major holidays have always been Off Peak with Verizon, I do all the family calling on those days with the cell phone, they always show up as off peak.

 

[dakotus]

Originally posted by: BostonRedSox
All holiday's are considered off-peak.

Is this stated somewhere on verizons site?

cause if its true.... YAY!!!

 

[Pfieff]

Christmas and New years are off peak minutes.

 

[Grminalac]

I used to work for Verizon wireless, all major holidays are considered off peak. (I'm trying to think the holidays always correlated with the days I got a paid holiday )
This includes X-Mas, New Years, Thanksgiving, and a couple others. They didn't do easter, but that didn't matter since easter was always on a sunday anyway.

FYI, for those with a camera phone through verizon wireless most people can access the express network (the high speed internet access) for free if they have the mobile office kit $69.99. Right now there is a snafu in their system. You see the camera phones use the high speed access to send, receive pictures thus customers have it enabled on their account by default. The system doesn't know the difference between sending a picture and using the phone to browse while connected to a laptop it just uses minutes. I believe actually adding this option costs 70 bucks a month so its a nice bit of savings. Its similar to the mobile to mobile on the family share plan, in most billing areas a customer had unlimited mobile to mobile to all VZW customers even though their plan said it was only to those on your family share. These are just errors that are not worth fixing as vzw is too busy trying to consolodate all of the companies it has bought out into two major databases and this will take a good bit of time. Even if they did fix the problem they might have to do it again after conversion.


EDIT: Thanksgiving, X-MAS, New Years, Labor Day, July 4th, Memorial Day
Happy Holidays

 

[Led Zeppelin]

I've had Verizon for 6 years now, when they were Bell-Atlantic Mobile, then Verizon, and every major holiday has always been considered off-peak. Whether it's a part of my plan or for everyone, I don't know, but that has always been the case for me. If you're not getting off-peak for major holiday's, I suggest talking to Verizon and finding out why.