[143749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Business - LTE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Tue Aug 16 13:15:58 2011
In-Reply-To: <21683.1313512858@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:15:29 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 16, 2011 9:41 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:53:24 EDT, Christopher Morrow said:
>
> > anyway, they do these donkey things because they can :( people have no
> > real option (except not to play the game, ala war games).
>
> My brother recently tried to get a smartphone without a data plan (as the
> phone he wanted was also Wifi-capable, and he was *quite* willing to be
able
> to do data-type stuff only when in range of an access point because he's
in
> range of one 95% of the time he'd want to use data features). But at
least
> one vendor said they wouldn't activate a phone under those conditions.
>
> Anybody got a good pairing of Android-based smartphone and vendor willing
> to play that game?
>
If you pay full price for the phone, this should not be an issue. Many
carriers price in data plans to offset the handset hardware subsidy.
I would recommend the unlocked nexus s with a prepaid sim for voice minutes
... and wifi for data only. Really, any phone you buy free and clear without
subsidy and contract should work fine as a phone with a prepaid sim
