#1 Comparing Visible plans to US Mobile plans, which is better
发表于 : 2024年 7月 10日 18:00
Updated 4/10/24
This came out of my response to Why should I stay with USM and not switch to Visible+?. This is comparing Visible' s new plans only to US Mobile Unlimited Basic and Premium plans on Verizon Coverage on eSIM/Black SIMs.
Also see this Google Doc for a full comparison of US Mobile Unlimited Starter to Unlimited Premium (and legacy plans included Unlimited All, Essentials, and legacy Starter and Premium)
Reasons why US Mobile is better:
PRICE: US Mobile Starter is the roughly same price as Visible Basic (roughly, depends on # of lines or if annual). If you have 2+ lines then US Mobile Premium is the same price as Visible+ but is cheaper for 1 annual line or 3+ lines due to being $5-15/line cheaper including "perks" that reimburse $15 for streaming services, making 3 lines of US Mobile Premium $30/mo cheaper than 3 lines of Visible+.
SPEED: If you are comparing Visible regular to US Mobile Unlimited Starter, US Mobile gets priority data on 5G phones, Visible does not.
SPEED: If you are comparing Visible+ to US Mobile Unlimited Premium, on 5G phones US Mobile gives 100GB of priority data (plus unlimited throttled priority data), Visible only gives 50GB of priority data, not counting unlimited UWB (mmWave and C-Band) premium data.
User Experience (UX): US Mobile has better app/website and customer service, hands down. This makes the user experience (UX) of things like signing up, porting in/out, adding features, asking questions and troubleshooting, etc so much easier on US Mobile.
HotSpot (debatable): US Mobile Premium has 50GB of unthrottled HotSpot and US Mobile Starter has 10GB of unthrottled HotSpot (this data is shared with total data use), but you can use on unlimited devices ; Visible throttles to 10 MBPS and is limited to one device (but is unlimited data).
International calling: US Mobile has unlimited text and calling to 200+ countries. Visible only has unlimited calling to Canada, Mexico, PR and 500 minutes to 30 countries, but does have unlimited texting to 200+ countries.
Video speed/quality: Visible throttles common video streaming sites to 2 MBPS (480-540p video) for all bands on normal Visible plan and on Visible+ when on LTE and low-band 5G, while US Mobile has no video throttles. You can use a VPN to get around this but that costs extra unless you already have one anyway
Security: US Mobile has better security, offering MFA/2FA while Visible does not, and no reported hacks or SIM Swaps of US Mobile vs Visible was hacked and has had many SIM swap reports.
eSIM Compatibility: US mobile offers eSIM on Apple and most Android Phones and even Windows Laptops (some people have gotten to work on Samsung but many can’t) vs Visible supports eSIM on Apple devices and selected Android devices, less than US Mobile.
Compatibility: US Mobile is compatible with almost any device that supports the Verizon bands and VoLTE versus Visible has limited compatible devices especially less compatible divines that support Visual Voicemail or WiFi Calling.
SPEED: Visible+ throttles to 5GB/s and normal Visible throttles to 400MBPS, versus US Mobile is completely unthrottled. Although no reason to need that much speed other than data speed test clout.
Debatable which is better:
HotSpot: US Mobile Premium has 50GB and US Mobile Starter has 10GB of unthrottled HotSpot you can use on unlimited devices, this data is shared with total data use; Visible throttles to 10 MBPS and is limited to one device but is unlimited data.
International roaming: US Mobile Premium 10GB of international roaming a month and Starter gives 1GB (you can buy more), and is usable in 150 countries. Visible gives full-speed 0.5 GB/day international roaming then unlimited 2G speeds (no way to buy more full-speed), but is only in Mexico, Canada, PR, US Virgin Islands. Visible has native calling/txting on international roaming versus currently only US Mobile GSM/T-Mobile has full native call/sms/data roaming, but Warp/Verizon native call/sms/data roaming is in beta for $50 deposit in same 4 countries as Visible, but will soon also have native calls/text roaming in 150+ countries and still has cheaper eSIM data on second SIM that works in 150+ countries.
Reasons Visible is better
PRICE: If only one line, Visible basic is the same price or slightly cheaper than US Mobile Starter (depending on if Annual, monthly or multi-line) and Visible+ is $5 cheaper than US Mobile Premium Monthly, same price as multi-line, and $2.50 more than annual.
DATA: Both Visible and Visible+ have truly unlimited unthrottled data (technically 400/5000 MBPS throttle), whereas US Mobile Unlimited Starter has 35 GB, and Premium has 100GB before unlimited throttle (1 Mbps).
DATA & SPEED: Visible+ gives unlimited priority data on 5g UWB (mmWave and C-Band) and does not count UWB towards 50GB of priority data
SPEED: Visible+ gives priority data on 4G/LTE phones for the first 50GB, vs US Mobile you need a 5G phone to get priority data
HotSpot (debatable): Visible has unlimited HotSpot data (throttled to 10 MBPS and is limited to one device), but US Mobile Premium has 50GB of unthrottled HotSpot and US Mobile Starter has 10GB of unthrottled HotSpot, both are shared with total data use (you can use them on unlimited devices)
Watch: Visible offers Apple Watch add-on for $5/mo that includes being able to answer calls/texts on Watch without phone in Bluetooth range; US Mobile does not offer AppleWatch, you would need separate line on something like TruPhone.