Miss Your Landline? Verizon's New Family Line Lets 5 Phones Share One Number

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Verizon's caller Family Line gives you a azygous shared mobile number.
You tin stock nan number crossed arsenic galore arsenic 5 smartphones.
Verizon Family Plus pinch Family Line will costs you an other $10 a month.

My woman and I sewage free of our landline years ago, relying solely connected our individual mobile phones to make and person calls. One characteristic I miss astir our location telephone was nan measurement we could stock a azygous family number and moreover subordinate successful connected nan aforesaid call. Now Verizon is bringing backmost those halcyon days of old.

Family Line assigns a shared number

Available pinch a caller monthly add-on called Verizon Family Plus, nan Family Line characteristic assigns you a azygous number to stock crossed up to 5 smartphones. Every Verizon Family Plus personification tin call, answer, aliases subordinate successful connected nan aforesaid conversation.

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This intends you tin speak pinch a relative, a family friend, aliases different interaction connected each telephone each astatine nan aforesaid time. And alternatively of debating whether to springiness personification your ain mobile number aliases your spouse's mobile number, you tin simply springiness them nan shared number for either of you to reply a call. Perhaps champion of all, parents tin usage nan shared number to thief them amended enactment successful touch pinch their kids.

"Technology is simply a powerful unit for connection, but we cognize families are seeking a amended balance," Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath said successful a news release. "The Verizon Family Plus Perk and nan Family Line characteristic are a nonstop reply to that need. We're empowering parents pinch an intuitive caller instrumentality to group boundaries and springiness their families a secure, dedicated number for communication, fostering a healthier integer narration from nan start."

Verizon Family and Family Plus features

Verizon Family and Verizon Family Plus each see a big of different options for parents and children alike.

Unlimited location check-ins. With GPS-based location tracking enabled, you tin cheque nan whereabouts of different group successful your family. You tin besides person an alert erstwhile your kid leaves aliases reaches a circumstantial place. Plus, nan Safe Walk action allows kids to stock their location, nonstop SOS alerts to an emergency contact, and people themselves arsenic safe erstwhile they get astatine their destination.
Parental controls. Here, parents tin limit really agelong their kids tin usage their phones and artifact telephone calls, texts, apps, and websites.
Driving insights. Has your teen conscionable started driving? With driving insights, you're capable to person notifications astir abrupt braking aliases acceleration and get an alert successful nan arena of a crash.
24/7 assist. Here, members of your family tin inquire unrecorded agents for thief during a aesculapian incident aliases unsafe stepping conditions.
Assistance for aging parents. Those of you pinch aged parents tin show their phones for imaginable fraud and scams.
Roadside assistance. Verizon's roadside assistance provides 24/7 thief successful lawsuit you person a level tyre aliases your car won't start.

The cost

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Verizon Family is free for each subscribers and includes location monitoring and sharing, a location alert for 1 family member, Safe Walk, telephone review, and driving insights for 1 person.

At $14.99 a period connected apical of your regular subscription cost, Verizon Family Plus offers everything successful Verizon Family and adds aggregate location alerts, parental controls, telephone and matter reappraisal and blocking, driving insights for each family members, roadside assistance, 24/7 assist, and Family Line.

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However, Verizon Family Plus costs conscionable $10 a period for Verizon MyPlan customers pinch a Verizon Unlimited Welcome, Welcome Unlimited (no longer disposable for caller customers), Unlimited Plus, aliases Unlimited Ultra subscription. As a Verizon customer, nan Family Line is decidedly thing I'd see to beryllium capable to stock nan aforesaid number pinch my wife.