Re: How different are AC1 and AC2 these days?

"user" <Rich@iwantnospam.com> wrote in message
news:slrneg6orf.p4c.Rich@zippy.mulveyfamily.com...
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:10:45 -0400, Jim Higgins <gordian238@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> "user" <Rich@iwantnospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:slrneg630n.fur.Rich@zippy.mulveyfamily.com...
>>> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:33:00 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently on AC1. I called CS to inquire whether I would be
>>>> required
>>>> to "upgrade" to AC2 if I took advantage of my NE2.
>>>>
>>>> As Bill Radio predicted in response to my earlier query, after much
>>>> wrangling the answer seemed to be "yes". Furthermore, the rep claimed
>>>> that
>>>> the *only* difference between AC1 and AC2 was the roaming charge, i.e.
>>>> there was nowhere that changed from roaming to no service.
>>>>
>>>> When AC2 first came out, this claim was hogwash, most notably in the
>>>> rural
>>>> West, which is important to me. Have things changed much recently? Is
>>>> there a site out there detailing differences?
>>>>
>>>> I assume if I raise enough of a stink, I can keep my $35 AC1 plan, but
>>>> that's not a fight I relish getting into.
>>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, we just upgraded my wife's phone, which is the primary
>>> phone on an AC1 Family plan, using NE2, and we still have AC1
>>> on the account. We did it all via the net, without talking with
>>> a rep.
>>>
>>> - Rich
>>>
>>> --
>>> Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum
>>> immane mittam.
>>>
>>
>> Then the default is the plan, and price, you have when you use NE2 to get
>> a
>> phone?
>
> In our case it was. Based on other comments in this group, it seems
> that
> if you actually speak to Verizon customer service people, they will
> often *insist* on making you go to an AC2 plan.
>
> That's why we did it entirely over the website. ;-)
>
> - Rich
>

Since I got my AC1 (400minutes) in late 2004 I canj keep it when I use NE2
to get an LG VX8300 (comments?) to replace my A-650. I also am getting a
19% discount so would I also keep that discount?