The new plan—$50 without Verizon phone service—is only offered outside Verizon’s existing 5G Home Internet coverage. And it comes with some speed trade-offs.
Verizon is casting a wider net for wireless home broadband customers with a new Home Internet Lite option that’s only available outside the coverage area of its existing 5G home service.
This new Lite offering comes with slower speeds—from 10 to 25Mbps versus the 100Mbps maximum it advertises on its cheapest 5G Home Internet plan—that drop to a limit of 10Mbps after a 150GB data cap. As with Verizon’s existing service, this comes with a free home receiver that incorporates a Wi-Fi router.
Verizon’s press release suggests Lite will be cheaper, touting rates “as low as $25/month for a limited time.” But a disclaimer page shows that the price is only available as a “Loyalty Discount” for subscribers who already have Verizon postpaid mobile service; this deal lasts 36 months.
Afterwards, Lite runs $35 a month, while customers without Verizon phone service pay $50 a month. All of these rates require enabling autopay and paperless billing. Verizon’s entry-level Home 5G plan has the same prices under the same conditions.
However, Verizon isn’t selling Lite in areas where it already offers fixed-wireless connectivity, which it launched as an LTE service in 2020.
