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Yahoo Mobile: the Verizon Phone Plan That No One Asked For (arstechnica.com) 5

Posted by BeauHD from the why-is-this-a-thing dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Remember Yahoo? It’s back… in phone-plan form. The Verizon-owned company is trying to get customers excited with a new “Yahoo Mobile” service that combines Verizon’s 4G LTE network with Yahoo mail, for some reason. Why even put the word “Yahoo” on a re-branded Verizon data plan? Because the service comes with Yahoo Mail Pro, the ad-free version of Yahoo Mail that normally costs $3.49 a month. Yahoo Mobile also includes “24/7 Yahoo account customer service.” Verizon says Yahoo Mobile has “no hidden fees” or “clingy contracts.” “We’re the only plan that gives you Yahoo Mail Pro for ad-free email across ALL your devices,” the Yahoo Mobile website says. (Fact check: True.)

Yahoo Mobile costs $40 a month and provides “unlimited” data, with a caveat. “In times of traffic, your data may be temporarily slower than other traffic,” the announcement said. With the more expensive Verizon-branded unlimited service, customers have the option of buying plans with no data slowdowns until they use 25GB, 50GB, or 75GB in a month. With Yahoo Mobile, the speed limits can be imposed any time the network is congested, regardless of how much data a customer has used. Yahoo Mobile also comes with an “unlimited mobile hotspot for use with one connected device at a time,” but those hotspot speeds are capped at 5Mbps. The Yahoo plan doesn’t have access to Verizon’s 5G network, though that’s not really a big deal yet. Aside from the Yahoo-specific aspects, Yahoo Mobile is essentially the same plan offered by Visible, a Verizon subsidiary.

Yahoo Mobile: the Verizon Phone Plan That No One Asked For

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  • by Anonymous Coward writes:

    And in addition to Verizon Mobile and Yahoo! mail, we’ll send you a gift-wrapped turd, free of charge! What A Deal!

  • When I find myself in times of traffic, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, TCP. And in my hour of darkness she is sending this with GPG Speaking words of wisdom, TCP…

  • Must be depressing for Yahoo to know that with the lead they had with Yahoo Instant Messenger, along with the infrastructure and name recognition they had, they could have easily captured the Slack/Teams space…

    (Yes, I know, ICQ, IRC… Yahoo was “big corporate” though.)

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