Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-12 Thread Doug
What about texting? $0.10 a text. I think that is both to send and receive. If I do 10x per month, that's a lot. The situation is different for the chatty younger set. Doug ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-09 Thread j...@polcari.com
What about texting?- Original Message -From: quot;Dougquot; ;sweet...@alum.mit.edu ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-09 Thread edwardp
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 12:48:06 -0400 Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at Page Plus Cellular (pagepluscelluar.com)- a prepaid service which includes data, has excellent rates, and is a Verizon MVNO. I was with them before, and for the lack of minutes I use, and planning

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-09 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 7/9/2012 11:51 AM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: metroPCS http://www.metropcs.com/ has unlimited data on the CDMA side, lowest-price plan is $50.00/month with an Android, $60/month if you also want unlimited streaming with Rhapsody. Only 1X data service in the metro Boston area and in

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-09 Thread edwardp
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:15:55 -0400 Shirley Márquez Dúlcey m...@buttery.org wrote: There is no need to throttle CDMA data. It already is throttled full time. By present day standards, it's pitifully slow on either Sprint or MetroPCS. There was a report that metroPCS was going to upgrade 20%

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
-* *From:* Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org *Sent:* Sun, July 8, 2012 16:25 *Subject:* Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan On 07/08/2012 03:53 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Jerry Natowitz wrote: My daughter wants a new phone... She doesn't want the smart phone features, she wants

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-09 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 03:02:09PM -0400, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: On 7/8/2012 12:51 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: I would suggest that you speak to Verizon directly about this. I would love to have a smartphone without a data plan on Verizon. I'm at the other extreme. If there were a way

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/08/2012 11:20 AM, Jerry Natowitz wrote: We are currently one of the few families who have Verizon wireless service without a smart phone, or a data plan. My daughter wants a new phone, but the only phones that she will consider are smart phones, which require a data plan, usually

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Jerry Natowitz j.natow...@rcn.com wrote: We are currently one of the few families who have Verizon wireless service without a smart phone, or a data plan. My daughter wants a new phone, but the only phones that she will consider are smart phones, which require

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Jerry Natowitz j.natow...@rcn.com wrote: We are currently one of the few families who have Verizon wireless service without a smart phone, or a data plan. My daughter wants a new phone, but the only phones that she will consider are smart phones, which require

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan (Jerry Feldman)

2012-07-08 Thread Daniel Barrett
Jerry Natowitz j.natow...@rcn.com asks: We are currently one of the few families who have Verizon wireless service without a smart phone, or a data plan. My daughter wants... the higher quality keyboard. The Samsung Alias 2 (SCH-U750) is a non-smartphone with a nice keyboard (IMHO). My daughter

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 7/8/2012 12:51 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: I would suggest that you speak to Verizon directly about this. I would love to have a smartphone without a data plan on Verizon. I'm at the other extreme. If there were a way to have a smartphone without a voice plan, now you'd be talking. I've

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Natowitz wrote: My daughter wants a new phone... She doesn't want the smart phone features, she wants the higher quality keyboard. She found a place selling the Palm Pre... Is this something you expect to last a few years, or is it a throw away solution that only needs to last 12 months

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/08/2012 03:53 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Jerry Natowitz wrote: My daughter wants a new phone... She doesn't want the smart phone features, she wants the higher quality keyboard. She found a place selling the Palm Pre... Is this something you expect to last a few years, or is it a throw away

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 7/8/2012 3:53 PM, Tom Metro wrote: (Anyone ever look at 4G interoperability? I see multiple previously incompatible carriers are now using or deploying LTE. I presume at minimum they'll be using different bands, which could in theory be supported by a multi-band phone. Right now the

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Bogstad wrote: I would suggest that you speak to Verizon directly about this. That seems like the best advice. I can see how Verizon would do this as a bundling approach. If you want the iPhone from us, then you need

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

2012-07-08 Thread Doug
My wife and I both have Xperia Ray Android smart phones (think tiny for a smart phone with a good camera). Both were purchase unlocked for about $250 and run ice cream sandwich (the 4.0 version of the android OS). Our carrier is T-Mobile, using their pay-as-you-go, no data plan. We both have