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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / October 2006Verizon's 10mb/Month Plan
Can anyone tell me what 10mb equates to as far as e-mail usage is concerned? We are going on a short trip next month and am considering adding the plan to my wife's phone to use with her laptop while we are gone so she can check e-mail regularly. TIA > Can anyone tell me what 10mb equates to as far as e-mail usage is > concerned? We are going on a short trip next month and am considering > adding the plan to my wife's phone to use with her laptop while we are > gone so she can check e-mail regularly. > > TIA If you download one 10mb message, that'll use up the entire month's allotment. The average page size is 32kb. I don't know how much e-mail your wife gets or sends (outside of those pictures that she's posting....) but you may be better off finding a Starbucks and paying for a pay-per-use tmobile account. >Pegleg <brian.pegleg.jones@nospamgmail.com> wrote: >Can anyone tell me what 10mb equates to as far as e-mail usage is >concerned? We are going on a short trip next month and am considering >adding the plan to my wife's phone to use with her laptop while we are >gone so she can check e-mail regularly. > >TIA If it's really a short trip, why not get unlimited data added just for the duration? It's $60/month, but you can add it when you are ready to depart and cancel it when you return rather than paying for the entire month.  SignatureDave >If it's really a short trip, why not get unlimited data added just for >the duration? It's $60/month, but you can add it when you are ready to >depart and cancel it when you return rather than paying for the entire >month. Sounds like a good idea..thought that a new contract was required with the "unlimited" plan....is a evdo phone necessary? She has an LG6100 and the data plan option shows under her account info. We already use VZAccess with her phone occassionally with a 1X connection. Would the data plan provide anything better? Thanks again. > We already use VZAccess with her phone occassionally > with a 1X connection. Would the data plan provide anything better? Hmm... If you are already using 1x (for minutes of use only, I assume) why would you even consider a $60/mo data plan for temporary use? To answer you other question... yes, in order to get faster than 1x speed you would need an EVDO capable phone as well as being in an EVDO supported area. I'd say stick with what you've got. -Frank >Pegleg <brian.pegleg.jones@nospamgmail.com> wrote: >>If it's really a short trip, why not get unlimited data added just for >>the duration? It's $60/month, but you can add it when you are ready to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Sounds like a good idea..thought that a new contract was required with >the "unlimited" plan A contract is required for the unlimited data "plan" but not to add unlimited data as a "feature" to your voice plan. You would only buy the data "plan" for a PC Card, PDA/phone, Blackberry, or Smart Phone, not for a regular cell phone. >....is a evdo phone necessary? She has an LG6100 >and the data plan option shows under her account info. An EVDO phone is not necessary. You will get the 144 kbps National Access network with your current phone. > We already use >VZAccess with her phone occassionally with a 1X connection. >Would the data plan provide anything better? >Thanks again. Whoa! If you are already using free access, don't sign up for a paid plan. When you cancel the paid plan, you may well use the free access you have now. You would gain nothing by paying for the data access you have now, and you would get no better data service. HTH SignatureDave ... > Whoa! If you are already using free access, don't sign up for a paid > plan. When you cancel the paid plan, you may well use the free access "lose" rather than "use"? - think that would be the situation by "alerting" VZW to what you can do already. As suggested: keep a "low profile" using it as you do now - nothing more to be gained. > you have now. > > You would gain nothing by paying for the data access you have now, and > you would get no better data service. > > HTH ROC >rocxspam <nospam@xspamx.no> wrote: >... >> >> Whoa! If you are already using free access, don't sign up for a paid >> plan. When you cancel the paid plan, you may well use the free access >"lose" rather than "use"? You're right. I meant "lose". Sorry. SignatureDave >>rocxspam <nospam@xspamx.no> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >You're right. I meant "lose". Sorry. Thanks to Frankster/Dave and rocxspam...your responses probably kept me from amking a bad choice! Thanks again. Pegleg U.S. Navy Retired Support Our Troops, Question The Policy! All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Sir Winston Churchill Silly question perhaps: What is "1x"? My phone always shows it. Angelo >>If it's really a short trip, why not get unlimited data added just for >>the duration? It's $60/month, but you can add it when you are ready to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Would the data plan provide anything better? > Thanks again. It's a digital signal used for voice and data. The data side allows up to burst speeds of 144k. -Frank > Silly question perhaps: What is "1x"? My phone always shows it. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> Would the data plan provide anything better? >> Thanks again. > burst speeds of 144k. (TRANSLATION: The file will take hours to download.) Oh, wait, this is Verizon. You're not supposed to download any files, anyways, so it won't matter..... It's the core CDMA2000 wireless air interface standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA2000 > Silly question perhaps: What is "1x"? My phone always shows it. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> Would the data plan provide anything better? >> Thanks again. > Can anyone tell me what 10mb equates to as far as e-mail usage is > concerned? We are going on a short trip next month and am considering > adding the plan to my wife's phone to use with her laptop while we are > gone so she can check e-mail regularly. > > TIA The spam will eat that 10MB in just a few days....then, we're off to the PAY-PER-KB Sweepstakes, again! Most profitable..... 10MB is nothing.....hell, 10GB is nothing these days! |
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