If you’re on a grandfathered unlimited plan on Verizon, your bill is about to get higher. $20 higher, to be exact. Unlimited plans will cost $50 per month, starting on your first billing cycle after November 15th.


Verizon hasn’t offered any new unlimited plans to customers since 2011, but there are still a few people who are desperately clinging to the old ways. This generally involves buying phones off contract. Because these customers are not on a contract, however, Verizon has the right to raise rates at its discretion. For the first time in years, Verizon is exercising that right.

The unlimited data plans will go up from the previous $30 per month, to $50 per month. More importantly, this price will be per line. Unlike Verizon’s shared data buckets, customers need to buy an unlimited plan for each device they own. If you have a family of five and each person has an unlimited plan, that bill increase will be $100 per month.


This is likely to upset Verizon’s grandfathered customers, but there’s also little that can be done. In the near future, customers may need to either switch to a tiered plan, or leave Verizon entirely in order to save money. Either way, it seems that unlimited plans on Verizon are not long for this world.

Verizon Will Impose $20 Price Increase On Grandfathered Unlimited Data Subscribers Very Soon | Android Police