Kitty Wireless, a long time dealer and support specialist of and for the Verizon based MVNO Page Plus Cellular has opted to start an MVNO of its own, Puppy Wireless. Puppy Wireless will provide 4G LTE service using Verizon as a backbone and will also provide legacy 3G service through that carrier.
Some of their plans are structured rather oddly though like an offering of 4000 SMS but with only 5 minutes of voice and 5 Mb of data for $22. This is rather quite expensive for a primarily texting only service given how little data SMS consumes and the general cost of data industry wide.
On the other hand the prepaid wireless provider does appear to have a real winner on its hand that should surely excite some of you Verizon enthusiasts out there. Puppy Wireless is offering 1 GB of LTE service with 750 talk and 750 SMS, for $29.95 and this in my opinion is their best offering value wise. The pricing of this plan should put a few Verizon MVNOs on notice that maybe it's time to rethink and restructure their plans as currently no other Verizon based provider is offering more LTE data for less. Welcome to the cheapest plans table Puppy Wireless!
There is a bit to note though to temper enthusiasm somewhat. As with all Verizon based MVNOs, download speeds are capped at approximately 5 Mbps and upload at 2 Mbps. Those speeds should still be plenty fast for the majority of users out there though. Overages come in at one flat rate of $0.05 for SMS, voice and data.
A summary of Puppy Wireless's LTE plans can be found in the table below.
| Plan | Voice/SMS | LTE Data |
|---|---|---|
| $10.95 | 50/50 | 50 Mb |
| $12.95 | 150/150 | 50 Mb |
| $14.95 | 250/250 | 50 Mb |
| $13 | 5/2000 | 5 Mb |
| $17.95 | 350/350 | 50 Mb |
| $19.95 | 300/300 | 300 Mb |
| $22 | 5/4000 | 5 Mb |
| $24.95 | 400/400 | 400 Mb |
| $29.95 | 1200/3000 | 500 Mb |
| $29.95 | 750/750 | 1 GB |
| $39.95 | unlimited/unlimited | 1 GB |
| $55 | unlimited/unlimited | 3 GB |
For more on Puppy Wireless check out their "about us" page which is currently hosted at Kitty Wireless. The official Puppy Wireless homepage is still under development as of this writing.
Seems Debb Y has left the building.
It is nice to see a few sites posting on Puppy Wireless and I hope the discussion will return to their services.
There is no Service that fits all, TW does not fit mine and personally I would like to stay away from anything America Movil!
Total Wireless as of today does 4G at 35$mo with unlimited Talk Txt and 2.5g data. The 4G popped up today. The cheaper rate is 3G.
Puppy is not the cheapest, my adult son is using Total Wireless cdma running on Verizon 35. for unlimited talk text and 2.5g data at 4g, can confirm the 4G today but if you go below that plan its 3G.
Thank you for your input. I’ll update my table to show LTE for Total Wireless. While I would agree with you that for $5 MORE the $35 plan by Total Wireless represents a better value per MB of data than Puppy, there is still no other Verizon based provider offering 1 GB of LTE or more for less than Puppy Wireless.
OK, so what avenue did your adult son use get his Total Wireless SIM card from? You need a SIM to have ANY kind of service in a 4G LTE device.
Nice catch. However will 4G still show on a Verizon based phone without a SIM card even though the user won’t actually be able to use the network without the SIM?
The only way that a “4G LTE” – Icon shows up on a Verizon 4G device is if their is a Verizon-based SIM installed. Verizon 4G devices need Verizon 4G LTE service. It is not like GSM based services that have the 4G HSPA & still not have 4G LTE. What is more interesting is that she said that there is no 4G only 3G on Total Wireless’ $25 Unlimited Talk and Text with no Data Plan. You wonder how & where she was able to get that information to differenciate two different plans.
The 7.95 – 9.95 – 11.95 – 14.95 plans you have listed above are 3G only with no added roaming capabilities. I beleive all the others you listed above are both 3G and 4G LTE
(In order to support 4g LTE on our lower plans, as of 06/01/2015 when Puppy
4g LTE launches, we are increasing our lower plan prices by $3.00 each, but
we are increasing the data on each of these plans, as well. The four
lower monthly plans will all come with 50mb of data each.)
$10.95 – 50 Minutes, 50 Messages, 50mb of Data (Formerly $7.95/mo w/ 5mb of
data)
$12.95 – 150 Minutes, 150 Messages, 50mb of Data (Formerly $9.95/mo w/ 15mb
of data)
$14.95 – 250 Minutes, 250 Messages, 50mb of Data (Formerly $11.95/mo w/ 25mb
of data)
$17.95 – 350 Minutes, 350 Messages, 50mb of Data (Formerly $14.95/mo w/ 35mb
of data)
They will also be one of the only VZW MVNOs to offer 4G LTE on plans under $30, Tracfone Smartphone service being the only other at this time.
Thanks