Adding a tablet to a data plan

[Brian Stirling]

I have Verizon service with my 1 year old Note 4 and am thinking about getting a tablet with cell service but am not up on the best options for adding a tablet to the plan. My plan gives me 10GB per month on the phone and even with the tablet added I think 10GB/month should be enough.

So, what are the options from Verizon to add the tablet with the lowest added cost?


Brian

 

[malabo]

I'm wondering myself if you could just pop your Verizon SIM in a tablet when you wanted to and not even sign up for a tablet plan

 

[Oyeve]

I'm wondering myself if you could just pop your Verizon SIM in a tablet when you wanted to and not even sign up for a tablet plan

This is what I do.

 

[jhu]

Or you can tether to your phone. That's what I do.

 

[malabo]

This is what I do.

Does that work they tried to tell me if I even tried it it would confuse the system and start charging me for a tablet plan and I would lose my unlimited.was that just Verizon bs.Do Android and iPad a use the same nano Sims

 

[shabby]

Or you can tether to your phone. That's what I do.

That's too complicated, its just easier to get a tablet plan and give verizon mo'money...

 

[Brian Stirling]

Well I spent about 45 minute on chat with a Verizon rep and she seemed to have been trained to confuse and obfuscate -- it took 45 minutes to learn it will cost me $10/month to add my tablet to my current plan and then share my current data. Her wording was so bad I needed to pin her down on every single point as she either didn't understand or was trained to be an asshole.

So, what I plan to do is buy the tablet outright and add it to my plan -- for the time being. I expect to have frequent data use on the tablet in the beginning but I don't know that I'll need it going forward. If that happen's I'll remove it from my plan and either swap the SIM, tether or use wifi.

Honestly, I would have preferred to talk to a computer!


Brian