Verizon’s new Smartphone data plan and pricing revealed
Looking for a little Verizon Smartphone plan info and pricing to brighten up your Sunday afternoon? The wireless carrier is set to launch a new add-on data plan called the Email and Web for Smartphone plan. The new service will enable "unlimited" data access, and is targeted at people that want to access email, web, and other data features on their Verizon Wireless handset. This is only available for those that need to access personal email, as no corporate Exchange access will be allowed under the new provisioning. That said, the price is right, with the new package starting at just $29.99 before any applicable service discounts. Expect this to be available for the Verizon XV6800, Motorola Q9m, and SMT5800, starting tomorrow, April 14th.
[Thanks, Omie!]
Shouldn’t this work with the Treo 700w too even if the PDF doesn’t mention it?
They are doing this to Match ATT Wireless. ATT in the last month or so dropped their smart phone and blackberry plans to $30 for unlimited. Yes Sprint and T Mobile will have cheaper plans, that is because they are smaller companies and dont have as large of a footprint as Verizon and ATT Wireless.
t-mobile coverage sucks where i live.. i wanted a side kick years ago but couldn’t hold a signal to save my life… in my area, verizon is your best bet so i’m happy to have a choice of good bb’s
Technically this can/should work with pretty much any VZW PDA phone, but it looks like VZW is limiting the phones to which it would apply, at least at launch. Hard to tell exactly why, or how they even really can justify it in any rational way.
And let’s not compare something like a Sidekick with a PDA/BB phone–apples and oranges.
I’m interested to see if VZW really aren’t offering this on the Q I have with them since last year. If so, they might as well just send me an AT&T welcome package. Oh, wait, they already did that when they didn’t support the upgrade to WM6. If they’re going to treat customers as obsolete within a few months of purchase, they have no business effectively locking you into a phone for 2 years.
Also like how the Connect (tether) service went from $15 to $30/mo. Smooth.
@ Gantt: Tethering has always been something that totalled $60/month, so, if you were on a $45/month data package to add tethering you’d simply need to add on $15/month for that feature to bring it to $60/month–now that the new data package is $30/month to add tethering an addition of a $30/month feature would be needed to bring the total to $60/month. Basically tethering didn’t change prices, just the data package. Nothing really new or weird there really.
So the PDA data plan plus tethering has to total $60/mo.? Wow, interesting that I’ve never seen Verizon state that. What if I’m on a $40/mo. data package? Would they charge me $20/mo. to add Connect, even though all their marketing says $15/mo.? If I pay $34/mo. for my data, will they charge me $26/mo. for tethering?
Great answer, though, C DM. If you’re not already in public office, you should run.
@ Gnatt: They have the add on package versions for whatever plans that they have. They don’t have a $34/month data plan, so there’s no add on tethering feature for that one, but if they did (for some reason, even though it’s unlikely given a pricepoint of that type), then, yes, it would be $26/month. I’m not here trying to pull your leg or anything, it’s just how it is. The tethering plan is $60/month, and that’s basically that. When you have a data feature then there’s an add-on to that feature, based on the actual data feature that you have (and basically its price) when it comes to the tethering plan. It’s been like that for a long time. You are trying to make it sound like either I’m making something up or don’t know any better, yet I have no vested interest in any of this one way or another, and these are simply facts, known by pretty much by most on many mobile sites and forums, nothing more, nothing less. You can certainly pretend it’s a lie, or feel that something isn’t fair about it (and there’s certainly room for that), but the point is that it’s just how it is, and has been.
Bingo!!
Getting either a 5800 or 6800 ASAP!!
I was so happy when I saw the promotions for this in the VZW store. Now I can finally afford a Verizon smartphone AND Data plan. It’s not like I was gonna switch to some other crappy service though……its just no comparison. I am gonna hold out until I qualify for an upgrade in October..something tells me more fones will be avalible with this new package.
Any body knows if there is a class action suit against Verizon for their unfair Smartphones data plans?.
Why? I called to get the new plan on my xv6700 and was refused!
At first, they confirmed the plan, they decommissioned my e815, activated the phone, THEN said “sorry it’s actually $44.95 a month for this model”. Whut?
Got some BS story that when there’s been a couple new model releases on a particular phone make it doesn’t qualify for the $29.95 plan… huh? I see in the article above “the xv6800…” but it also says “the Moto Q9m…” well they put my wifes Moto Q original release (not the 9m) which was manufactured about the same time as when the xv6700 came out on the plan no problem – WHY – ???
Ok Verizon, here’s what you get for pulling this crap on me – I signed up for Boingo.com $7.99 a month WiFI and will pull out my xv6700 for surfing the Web, and email, and Skype calls w/out ya. Take that biotch. Sure I’ll have to keep my old e815 for the voice plan… sure I’ll be carrying two devices. But I dropped the Mobile Web I was paying Verizon for so HA! Bite me.
This is greed. It’s called ’stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime’. VZ didn’t take the 30 bucks I was willing to pay, VZ sure as hell’s never getting the 45 bucks they randomly imposed, and VZ, you even lost the $60 bucks a year I was shelling out for that useless Mobile Web. I’m happy.