I thought for broadband access, you had to sign up for the National Access + Broadband data plan which didn't make much sense
prior to Monday as the extra $40 (for the minimium 20M plan) could have been used towards an AC Plan with at least 900 extra
weekday minutes; even at the Quick2Net speeds, you could download more than 20M of data during premium hours with the
extra minutes.

Even as to post-2/22 AC plans, it doesn't make any sense --- the only National Access plan which seems to have broadband
access is the unlimited plan for $80 and the calculation gets a bit complicated by what you can get locally:

  DSL or cable with higher speeds is available for considerably less and includes mail servers, news servers, etc. that you
normally expect an ISP to provide but which doesn't seem to be provided by VZW (add these costs to the $80 if you're not willing
to accept a free solution with advertising); then there is the question of whether your ISP allows access to its servers through
another service such as VZW's #777 [RoadRunner, e.g., allows access to its pop server only; for outgoing mail (other than web
mail) and for newsgroups, I would have to use RR's dial up numbers (for which VZW, under its new data plans, seems to want to
charge an extra 25 cents per minute)]

And even if you figure that you'll do enough travelling to save $80 (or whatever) each month in hotel charges for high speed
access (only) [as indicated, phone charges might be required in any event], I would think it would make more sense to use a PC
card so that your phone is not tied up.

As for Blackberry and PDA's which have their own special (more costly) plans, I don't know what PRL either would use.  And I
don't know why you'd use either anymore for both voice and data, at least exclusively over VZW.  I don't have a Blackberry so
don't have any personal experience  there.  As for a PDA, the convenience of using one device might have made sense at one
time but the total weight of both devices now probably is only slightly more than that of the combined device.  Nowadays the
monthly cost of the VZW solution to use the device for both purposes is considerably higher than the monthly cost of a cellphone
and of a WiFi plan for  an 802.11b equipped PDA.