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Beginning next week, Verizon Wireless will be offering their customers discounts that range from $8 to $12 per month via its new plan dubbed the Flex Double Play. This new service applies to customers who combine a Verizon Wireless service plan with broadband or FiOS TV.

The discount will also apply to customers who have Verizon’s basic 3mbps DSL service plan or the high speed 20mbps FiOS broadband service. However, the said discount will not apply to Verizon’s 7mbps DSL plan or the 50mbps FiOS service.

This new discounted offer is in response to the increasing number of households who prefer to use cell phones instead of landlines. Somehow, this move was an offshoot of AT&T’s similar discounted offerings for its customers who signed up for wireless and DSL service last year.

To quote Verizon spokesman Bill Kula:

“We remain very bullish on the traditional copper-based phone service, but we also recognize that there’s a growing segment of society that wants to have wireless as its principal home service.”

Read [Yahoo! News]