Verizon pushing out new data plans for Enhanced Multimedia Phones

2. icu812 posted on 27 Aug 2009, 19:16 0 0

COMPLETELY NOT TRUE! THE PRICING IS CORRECT BUT CUSTOMERS WILL NOT BE FORCED TO ADD ON A DATA FEATURE

4. 22ADin09 posted on 27 Aug 2009, 19:36 0 0

completely true......

7. icu812 posted on 27 Aug 2009, 20:03 0 0

EVERYONE CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT.....THE EXACT PRICING ALONG WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WILL BE MADE OFFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC ON 8/31/2009. EVERYONE WILL SEE THE TRUTH THEN. TO THOSE FOLKS WHO ALREADY HAVE THE $15 UNLIMITED VPAK PLAN WILL GET TO KEEP IT UNLESS UPGRADING TO A NEWER PHONE.

9. EraserXIV posted on 27 Aug 2009, 20:27 0 0

i sure hope you're right

26. holby26 posted on 28 Aug 2009, 12:50 0 0

yeah it is just like when the data plan became required for pdas. Not really a big deal. To my understanding it is not required.

28. MadProfessor posted on 28 Aug 2009, 15:41 0 0

Stop yelling, please.

36. BrokenImaege posted on 29 Aug 2009, 15:12 0 0

You are incorrect. They will be per our infomanager. I work for Verizon. It has to be activated on newer phones that will be coming out. Not all phones will need it but higher end models will. Connect or premium plans are the way to go realisticly.

11. Kiltlifter posted on 27 Aug 2009, 20:46 0 0

the sprint everything plan still doesn't matter... if it did, everyone would be on sprint, rather than sprint continuing to lose 1/4 million subs every 3 months. People will pay for what they want... and it is obvious that they want AT&T or VZW, T-Mo, Alltel (who still gets more subs that Sprint each quarter, despite not existing as a company anymore), and even Cricket get more.... Sprint is losing people... who cares about anything sprint does. Obviously not the American Consumer, or they would actually net adds instead of losses.

20. spunks74 posted on 28 Aug 2009, 07:34 0 0

I'm actually a very happy sprint user. And before you go spouting off about how nobdy cares about sprint, there are 48.8 million sprint subscribers left. Sprint's "Everything" plans are the best out there, providing that you (and your whole family if you have a family plan) want every feature on your phone to work and you dont to be nickeled and dimed to death. Because verizon and att are gaining customers, they are able to do things like these absurd data plan rates, which are designed to extract lots of cash and provide very little in service. These are by far the worse data plans you could possible get on, because users will feel they are covered and can VERY EASILY go over there limit and get charge PER megabyte. The smarter users will up there plans to the unlimited plans. Eitherway, verizon will now get a lot more money for the same service they were providing either by users not using much data, users going over there limit, or users upgrading there plan to avoid overcharges.

27. holby26 posted on 28 Aug 2009, 13:02 0 0

actually both verizon and att are dumping tons of money into their networks. That is why your seeing the prices. I would expect for att to follow suit soon as well. Sprint has had WiMax for so long and it still is only available in a few markets? Att is back hauling and increasing its capacity and speed with hspda plus(or whatever they call it) and verizon will be rolling out LTE soon. By the way the connect plan is 10 bucks more for a single line on top of the select plan and gets you unlimited data. Even if you were only using the 10 txt package and the 15 vcast, then the move is 5 bucks more. Yeah kinda sucks but it isnt earth shattering. I would imagine it has to also deal with the fact that apps will become more and more abundant for those devices.

32. PapaJay224 posted on 29 Aug 2009, 13:08 0 0

"Get The Network Facts Did you know that we've invested more than $50 billion in our network since Verizon Wireless was formed in 2000? That's an average of $5.5 billion each year! Learn more about this investment and get the facts about our largest and most reliable network." This was emailed internally to me this morning. And the data plan is not so bad from my end when you have customer buying phones "they want" and ones they cant afford monthly...If you cant afford the Data DONT USE IT!!!! Buy a RaZR or Something basic...If you want to look cool to your freinds be prepared to pay for it, since when in our entire existance did popularity ever come for FREE? NEVER!

37. holby26 posted on 29 Aug 2009, 15:23 0 0

my only question is why you would recommend a Razr.... ever.. and also they have been EOL for a long time now.

21. Knightlyjay posted on 28 Aug 2009, 08:11 0 0

Yes. The Env Touch is not an enhanced multimedia phone in the current class of devices.