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Phone Arena
01-08-2025
- Business
- Phone Arena
New Verizon tactic might compel you to ditch your legacy plan
Carriers really want you off discontinued plans. While T-Mobile has kicked users off legacy plans without obtaining their permission, Verizon has come up with another strategy to make the old 5G Get More and 5G Play More plans less these plans let you enjoy either Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass. These subscription services let you access huge libraries of games for a monthly fee. Apple Arcade costs $6.99 per month, while Google Play Pass is $4.99/month. Verizon offered the game subscription services for free to customers on 5G Get More and 5G Play More plans, which were announced in 2021 but have been grandfathered now. As first spotted by Droid Life , Verizon has started notifying customers that the perks will soon stop being available to them. The company will discontinue them on September 22 and remove them from accounts on September 25. No more free Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass for 5G Get More and 5G Play More customers. | Image Credit - Droid Life Verizon hiked the prices on 5G Get More and 5G Play More by $4 in March, and a few months later, it's removing gaming perks. The company seemingly wants you to think that the plans are now poor value for money compared to what they offered before. It's no coincidence that Verizon sneakily slipped in a reminder that Apple Arcade is available with its newer myPlan. Customers on Verizon plans that come with six months of free Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass will begin to be charged if the promotional period ends before September 25, unless they cancel. If it ends on or after September 25, the subscription will simply be removed from their accounts. Verizon is reportedly also planning to hit customers with a series of price increases. The carrier has been losing customers due to price hikes, but that apparently hasn't deterred it from making moves that are likely to prove unpopular, such as removing loyalty discounts, which are offered to keep subscribers from switching.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Yahoo
‘That's crazy': Struggling CMSD sent kids to Disney World, I-Team learns
CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has found the Cleveland Municipal School District sent kids on a trip to Disney World while spending money that could have been used for unique educational projects. We investigated the story behind the all-expenses paid trip for kids and adults from the Garfield School. Twelve students in sixth. seventh and eighth grade went, and so did six adults, including the school principal. Teen accused of assaulting girls in line at Cedar Point: I-Team Records show the cost of the trip totaled more than $28,000. 'This serves a handful of students and a few lucky adults who got to go on the district's or the public's money,' said Errol Savage, a member of the executive board of the teacher's union. Money for the 'Disney Dreams' trip came from the Get More Opportunities Fund. The application promised the trip would be 'rewarding well-behaved students' to 'encourage further growth, achievement and well-being.' We found that trip was chosen for grant money over several other applications from teachers for educational projects or trips. 'I think that money could have been better spent. It could have been spent on educational field trips: Gettysburg, Williamsburg, Washington, D.C., the Henry Ford Museum.' Savage added. The other proposals not chosen included money for technology to help kids with learning disabilities, a project to help kids create 3-D rollercoasters and a competition for kids at four schools to learn to think on their feet. 'That's crazy,' Polly Karr, a parent and school district watchdog, said. Examining Perrysburg Schools' identity fraud case through a legal lens She reacted to the Disney trip while pointing out, at another school, the same grant money was denied when the chess club wanted to take a teacher to an out-of-state tournament. 'They're denying us from the Get More funds to take the teacher. We applied for a grant for that to take the teacher,' Karr said. In the response to our records request, the school district said an 'equitable process' was used to pick the adults on the Disney trip: the principal, a secretary and teachers, including a union chair. We tried contacting the principal, but we received no response. No one from the school district is talking on camera. A spokesman stressed only grant money was used. No general fund money, and the principal considered the trip to be something really special. 'You can't expect students to always make the right choices, but adults, they could have been guided better,' Savage said. We also took note of the dates for the Disney trip, which were school days in March — not even spring break. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
