It looks like Verizon is taking strides to get with the times and is starting to offer customers what they want. The BlackBerry data only plan has been, oh, so elusive, however,Verizon has finally come around and is offering a plan for those BlackBerry users who never talk on the phone. They are going to charge the heck out of you for it, starting at $54.99 per month plus $0.25 per minute for those times that you do need to make a call, however, Verizon doesn’t do anything on the cheap and no one can say they don’t offer a data only plan anymore.
For your 55 bucks a month you get unlimited email, web browsing, and data usage. Personally, I just don’t see how this plan could ever be worth it if you use the phone even for just a few minutes per month. I admit, however, that I cannot remember a month when I used less than 600 or 700 minutes and usually regularly average over an hour per day especially when I am on the road.
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JohnnyHeff 04.15.08 at 12:23 pm
…not sure what the point would be to have data only. for $20 more, you can have 450 mins. and avoid the per min. charges.
i realize that the bb was originally conceived as a data device used to transmit emails, however isn’t the point of an integrated smartphone the ability to “talk”?
Ben P 04.15.08 at 12:54 pm
see here’s my problem… I use less than 200 of my 450 minutes every month… but I use A LOT of my night/weekend/vzw-to-vzw minutes… if this plan included those calling features - I’d switch today! Hell… even if it only had vzw-to-vzw I’d strongly consider it…
Robb Dunewood 04.15.08 at 3:49 pm
That is a good question to ask.
Does the Verizon Unlimited BlackBerry Data Plan include nights and weekends?
Ben P 04.15.08 at 4:30 pm
I’m almost certain it wont…
After doing some quick’n'dirty math - basically you’d have to be using less than 100 minutes a month to even justify this. Other wise you can get the 450 min. plan and a BB data plan for the same price.
JB 04.15.08 at 6:35 pm
Here’s a question. If you use IM+ for Skype and combine it with this service, is it worth it?
argonnj 04.15.08 at 8:32 pm
Verizon + Blackberry = overpriced, no matter how you slice it. No wonder the Government likes Verizon, they love to waste money.
Brian 04.15.08 at 9:46 pm
That’s a sham.
My wife and I pay 69$ per month on VZW for our minutes between the two of us (700 plus unlimited text).
To add my blackberry plan (unlimited data, email, msg), i think it was 30$ extra to our qualifying minutes plan.
You could get the bare minimum minutes plan plus the data plan for not much more.