Verizon's 'DataGate' plans leaked

[BillMac]

decay wrote:
i think so, yes...

damn. I'm not really ready for an iPhone yet, I was planning on late summer or when the next revision for VZW comes out..... may have to rethink my plan!

[Trouble]

GeneL wrote: Knowing that the unlimited data plan is being canceled, I'm wondering what strategy I could use to get on the current plan, but not lose the ability to buy the new iPhone with the two year contract discount?

Buy a smartphone and get the dataplan with no contract. When the new iPhone is released, buy it with the contract price and move the number over. That may work but I'd double-check with a rep you can trust.

[Gareth]

Trouble wrote:
[quote=GeneL]Knowing that the unlimited data plan is being canceled, I'm wondering what strategy I could use to get on the current plan, but not lose the ability to buy the new iPhone with the two year contract discount?

Buy a smartphone and get the dataplan with no contract. When the new iPhone is released, buy it with the contract price and move the number over. That may work but I'd double-check with a rep you can trust.
That's what I would do. Actually, it's pretty much what I did right before AT&T gave up the unlimited plans. I went to an AT&T store and got a SIM card and an iPhone voice and unlimited data plan (I had an iPhone 3G I was using on T-Mobile at the time). Had to pay about two months of AT&T service until my T-Mobile contract was up, then I switched to AT&T and got the subsidized pricing on an iPhone 4 and kept the unlimited data. Should work about the same for Verizon, if you get a used smartphone off contract.

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decay wrote:
i have ATT unlimited, but have never gone over 500 MB in a single month so far.

mostly my usage hovers between 175 MB and 300 MB / month.

I got a VZW Droid phone a few months ago, and my first month was around 400MB, second was 700MB, and last month was just short of 1GB.

There are lots of ways to use a smart phone that gobble up data, and they keep coming up with new ones.

I don't think I would be happy with any sort of limit.