Dear Paul, Why not take your BN to the Verizon store and ask to see the phone with the infrared port. See if you can communicate between the phone and the BN while you're in the store. If it works, you could consider exchanging your present phone and cable and pay whatever difference there would be between the price of your new phone and the old phone.
I agree that $350.00 seems steep for a cell phone. I'm surprised Verizon doesn't have more than one phone model with an infrared port, because it's a very popular and easy connection. Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California
