Verizon launches Lite home internet for people in limited coverage areas

Verizon is launching a new “Lite” location net plan for radical successful areas antecedently not covered by its fibre and 5G internet. The caller program offers download speeds of up to 25Mbps, but it costs arsenic overmuch arsenic $60 per period without immoderate discounts.

Verizon says its Lite program is champion for “light” net usage successful homes constricted to “older, little reliable options similar DSL oregon satellite.” Customers who already usage Verizon for their postpaid mobile telephone work will benefit the astir from the dense discounts. You’ll prevention $15 / period erstwhile the work is combined with a mobile plan.

It’s besides offering a $10 monthly discount for paperless billing and autopay, on with an additional $10 discount available for 3 years if mobile telephone customers motion up earlier December 31st. All these discounts bring the terms down to $25 per month.

Though Verizon’s Lite program whitethorn beryllium ultra-cheap if you’re capable to instrumentality vantage of the terms cuts, it’s rather dilatory erstwhile compared to different fund net plans. T-Mobile’s cheapest location net plan, for example, costs up to $55 per period for download speeds up to 415Mbps. 

Verizon volition throttle your work by up to 10Mbps aft the archetypal 150GB of information usage successful 1 month, portion T-Mobile volition commencement slowing down net speeds if customers usage much than 1.2TB successful 1 month. Like T-Mobile, Mint Mobile’s caller prepaid location net program besides offers download speeds of up to 415Mbps, but it volition commencement throttling information aft 1TB of usage and costs up to $50 per month.

Verizon Lite is disposable crossed the US starting today. The bearer volition apt lone proceed to grow its location net sum successful the coming months, arsenic it’s acceptable to get the fiber net supplier Frontier and the antenna-based net work Starry.