[143753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Business - LTE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Aug 16 14:46:30 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGR90hpAg7YpXPPdY1dHqxWxsLkqKcCAX0wB6REa--Q==A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:44:04 -0700
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2011 9:41 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>>=20
>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:53:24 EDT, Christopher Morrow said:
>>=20
>>> anyway, they do these donkey things because they can :( people have =
no
>>> real option (except not to play the game, ala war games).
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> Anybody got a good pairing of Android-based smartphone and vendor =
willing
>> to play that game?
>>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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
This of course assumes you want your service from AT&T or T-Mobile.
If you want one of the other suppliers that use CDMA, this approach does
not work.
Owen
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