Newbie question re 1XRTT

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New to Verizon here -- I switched our family over to a Verizon family
plan from T-Mobile because of the wife's complaints about T-Mo's
coverage (which admittedly is spotty in our town).

Anyway, my question is: Apparently "National Access" allows one to use
Verizon's 1XRTT data service under a voice plan and be charged only for
airtime minutes. Is this true? Or if I connect my laptop to my phone
and fire up a 1XRTT session, will I be hit with charges at some
monstrous per-kilobyte rate?

Verizon Customer Service says I'll be charged only for airtime minutes
when using 1XRTT. But my encounters to date with Verizon's customer
service does not give me much confidence that they actually know the
correct answer (my impression is that while Verizon has a great network,
their CS staff is very weak -- they try to be helpful, but lack the
requisite training and resources). So I'm interested to know the
experiences of actual customers who have used their 1XRTT.

I don't expect to use 1XRTT enough to justify signing up for a data
plan, but can foresee where 1XRTT could sometimes be nice to have
available.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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>
> Anyway, my question is: Apparently "National Access" allows one to use
> Verizon's 1XRTT data service under a voice plan and be charged only for
> airtime minutes. Is this true? Or if I connect my laptop to my phone
> and fire up a 1XRTT session, will I be hit with charges at some
> monstrous per-kilobyte rate?
>
I have been using IXRTT data service where available while traveling for two
years now and have never been charged anything other than minutes of use
when used during peak hours.

Don in Tracy, Calif.

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Charles Hawtrey wrote:
> New to Verizon here -- I switched our family over to a Verizon family
> plan from T-Mobile because of the wife's complaints about T-Mo's
> coverage (which admittedly is spotty in our town).
>
> Anyway, my question is: Apparently "National Access" allows one to
> use Verizon's 1XRTT data service under a voice plan and be charged
> only for airtime minutes. Is this true? Or if I connect my laptop
> to my phone and fire up a 1XRTT session, will I be hit with charges
> at some monstrous per-kilobyte rate?
>

The Older plans allowed that (AC), But the newer plans (AC2) may not. The
older plans had no text saying you may be charged, but the new plans do.
Whether you will actually be charged or not for data is up in the air.
From your post, saying that you are new to Verizon, I assume you have the
AC2 plan, which has the added wording to allow the possibility of being
charged.
To answer your question (Is this true).. it USED to be true on the older
plans (up until a few months ago), but it may not be anymore.

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$59.99 for 1XRTT
$79.99 for EVDO

These are unlimited data plans so no overages.

If you are on extended network and it works you will be charged 69¢
roaming since verizon does not do any data roaming agreements yet.
They should be comming soon.


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