Visible Wireless Review (After 1 Year Review)

First thing you need to understand about visible is that it's owned by verizon. So verizon, t-mobile, AT&T those are all "post-paid" services. Where you go through the whole month and then your bill is due at the end of the month. All those companies own "prepaid" services where you pay and then you use the service for the rest of the month. Visible is verizon's prepaid service.

9 Things I Looked At

1) Coverage

Visible uses the exact same coverage as verizon! It works on the same network as verizon. Personally I've never had an issue where I've had a dropped call or really slow coverage. I have no complaints about visible’s service or coverage. I do live in a big city though, so pretty much any phone service is going to have good coverage. But the times that I've traveled into more rural areas the services might be a little slow but I feel like it's not any slower than a regular verizon service would be.

2) Price

This is going to be another positive that I like. $40 a month if you just have a single line, visible only offers one plan and it's unlimited talk, text, data and mobile hotspot. With other prepaid services most of them don't give you a hotspot. They may give you unlimited data but they don't give you unlimited hotspot data as well. Visible does for a great price. There's a couple companies that may be slightly cheaper than $40/month but they don't offer as much as visible offers and the $40 a month includes all taxes and fees! They don't charge you a dime over $40. Whereas verizon they'll advertise $65 or $75 a month but on average there's 15% taxes and fees on top of the advertised price. So the price is awesome for what you get with visible. The reason the price is so low is because; 1) they get guaranteed money because it's a prepaid service. 2) They don't have to pay for things like storefronts and store employees. There are no visible stores, it's all online and the customer service is ran online and they also don't have to build and buy new cell towers. They're just using verizon's coverage.

3) Customer Service

This one I'm going to give a thumbs down to because it's not bad but it’s not great. If you're someone who is horrible with phones and a phone always messes up for you the only way to get in contact with visible is through an online chat or through email. This could take some time. Whereas just going to a store and calling someone, that face-to-face interaction is a little more peaceful a little more nice to know that you can at least do that. To be honest though when I had verizon I don't think I ever went to an actual store when I had an issue. So you kind of get what you pay for. Me, I could go without pristine customer service but I could see how with visible it could be a decent issue for about a day until your phone is fully back up to get in contact with the right people.

4) Mobile Hotspot Data

The mobile hotspot data is something I get a lot of questions about. This is kind of a thumbs up and a thumbs down for me - somewhere in the middle. 1) The fact that it even gives you a hotspot I think is personally amazing. 2) The thing about the hotspot is there are limitations to it: You can only have one device tethered to the hotspot at a time. You can't have multiple laptops going and your tv streaming. It has to be one device, one other phone, or one other laptop. The other thing is what they do for (not their unlimited data but) their unlimited mobile hotspot data is they will cap the speeds around 5mbps. Personally the reason why this is not a thumbs down for me is because 1) the fact they're giving you hotspot. But 2) I've never had an issue with using the hotspot. I use it generally when I'm traveling and I'll tether my laptop to it or if I'm at someone's house and I just don't want to ask them for the wi-fi password, I'll quickly do something on my laptop while it’s tethered to my hotspot. I've been able to do watch youtube, edit videos, check my email, do all sorts of the necessary day-to-day things on the hotspot without any problems.

If you're going to rely on the hotspot as your home wi-fi service to stream movies/shows or play video games on then I would not recommend just solely relying on the hotspot. I have a regular AT&T wi-fi router in my house for doing things like that.

5) Compatibility of Your Phone

They sell a ton of phones on visible. Every name brand phone; samsung, iphones, etc. I've had no issues with compatibility, unless you have a really old phone, your phone is probably going to be compatible. You can check on the visible website before you sign up for the service.

6) Can you keep your current phone number?

Yes you can keep your own phone number, nothing changes. Once you sign up - they'll next day ship you a visible sim card and you just pop out whatever sim card you have (Ex: Verizon, AT&T) in your current phone > Put in the visible sim card > Turn on your phone > And all your apps, text messages, contacts, etc…will still be there.

7) Promotions

Promotions! This is a cool thing that I like about visible. When I first signed up my first month was only $25. So I got $15 off right away and usually they'll give you a $100 prepaid visa gift card if you sign up now! So It’s almost like your first 3 months are completely free with visible! Sometimes visible will even give you a $150 to $200 gift card just for buying a phone through them.

8) Speed: Downloading/Uploading {Worst Thing About Visible}

This is also going to be the worst thing about visible… the speed. I will say this, I have never noticed a difference in the speed compared to when I used to have verizon. However, I have looked at other youtubers who are a lot more technologically savvy and they've done speed tests on visible vs verizon or visible vs AT&T. And visible always comes in about half as fast. To the average person I highly doubt you'll notice any issues with the speed. I use my phone for email, social media, upload videos, edit videos, stream youtube, I watch all sorts of stuff on my phone and I've never had an issue with the speed. If you’re going to use your phone for something more advanced than average then you may notice an issue with speed or if you're someone who's really technologically savvy then you may notice it takes a half a second more to download something.

9) Party Pay {Best Thing About Visible}

Final point about visible and the best thing is going to be the party pay! It's like visible’s version of the “family pay” or the “family plan” except it's even better. Instead of $40 a month- if you have up to 4 lines everyone will only pay $25 each for unlimited everything (talk text, data and hotspot for $25 a month)! There's no way you're going to ever beat that price on any other service and the great thing about the party pay is everyone has their own individual plan. They're responsible for it, so it's not like if your friend doesn't pay the bill you're going to be negatively affected at all. Matter of fact, you don't even see who else is on your party pay other than their first name (no last name) and the last four digits of their phone numbers (no full phone numbers). If someone drops off the plan, you can always add someone on there, it's really smooth and everyone's responsible for their own plan and the price is just ridiculous.

My Party Pay Link ———> *Sorry Currently Full :/

Conclusion

In conclusion, after having visible for 1 year I do highly recommend it. It's the service I'm going to continue with. I've been really happy with it. Most importantly, the price is unbeatable. The only complaints I've seen is the download/upload speed is a little slow. But like I said I've never noticed it but you might. Generally speaking, I think it's great plan for you to join. I am not getting paid by visible at all! There's no sponsorships, no referral programs, nothing like that, this is just my genuine opinion about it. Check out this other video I did about visible posted down below!