Lose Group Discount If I Switch Plans?

Hi, my wife and I have been with Verizon wireless for ~ 7 yrs on a
group discount plan through our company (we get $10 off per mo per
line). My wife has started using a lot more minutes than allowed by the
plan most months, and it's costing us $0.49/min extra. I'd like to
switch us to an AC family share plan, but here's the catch - our
company no longer has a group agreement with Verizon, they've switched
over to Cingular. We're still grandfathered on our group rate
currently. If I try to switch us to an AC share plan, is there any
chance we can still keep the group discount? If not, I'll have to
consider going with Cingular even though it will mean switching phones
and probably losing coverage area. Any ideas? Thanks,

Jon wrote:
> Hi, my wife and I have been with Verizon wireless for ~ 7
> yrs on a group discount plan through our company (we get
> $10 off per mo per line). My wife has started using a lot
> more minutes than allowed by the plan most months, and
> it's costing us $0.49/min extra. I'd like to switch us to
> an AC family share plan, but here's the catch - our
> company no longer has a group agreement with Verizon,
> they've switched over to Cingular. We're still
> grandfathered on our group rate currently. If I try to
> switch us to an AC share plan, is there any chance we can
> still keep the group discount? If not, I'll have to
> consider going with Cingular even though it will mean
> switching phones and probably losing coverage area. Any
> ideas? Thanks,

Call and ask. My situation is a bit different and may not
apply but it's similar. I have a corporate discount. Some
time after I got it VZW changed the discount for my
company to a lesser percentage. I have changed plans
since then (twice) and retained the larger percent discount.

-Quick

You should be able to do it. Call and ask for business accounts (they
handle the group plans) and they should be able to help you. FWIW, my union
cancelled their group plan with VZW about eight years ago ($9 discount per
line). I have switched plans many times over the years and have always
retained the discount. The trick is, you have to ask to keep the discount
when you make the change.

What's really nice is that they even extended the discount to additional
lines on my AC Family Share account. As a result, I have three lines
sharing 500 minutes for a total of $52.99 per month.


"Jon" <cmhskier@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, my wife and I have been with Verizon wireless for ~ 7 yrs on a
> group discount plan through our company (we get $10 off per mo per
> line). My wife has started using a lot more minutes than allowed by the
> plan most months, and it's costing us $0.49/min extra. I'd like to
> switch us to an AC family share plan, but here's the catch - our
> company no longer has a group agreement with Verizon, they've switched
> over to Cingular. We're still grandfathered on our group rate
> currently. If I try to switch us to an AC share plan, is there any
> chance we can still keep the group discount? If not, I'll have to
> consider going with Cingular even though it will mean switching phones
> and probably losing coverage area. Any ideas? Thanks,
>