[143873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Business - LTE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sat Aug 20 18:45:27 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <21683.1313512858@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:44:40 -0700
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, at 9:40 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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?
Buy a stand-alone device.
Plug your t-mobile sim into it.=20
The subsidy on a nominally $600 phone is predicated on you spending $80 =
or so a month on service. last lightly used nexus one I ebayed was =
~$200, you can accumulate a whole stable of them for what you'd =
otherwise pay the carrier for the privledge.
