I have the VX-9800 from LG PLUS I own the EVDO card for my laptop, but it is totally unclear what I really do pay for things. It takes my accountant 30 minutes to sift through my bill and figure out what to pass through to my consulting bill. At times, I get all you can eat, at times I get roaming, at times I get 69 cents a minute. It is not constant, it is more like predatory in whatever situation I am in. It usually runs me about $110 a month on somehwat normal usage, travel twice a month, staying mostly withhin a 30 mile radius of home.
I have a $59 all you can eat plan on the card, and it was supposed to flow to my phone, which has EVDO, but they tied the EVDO pn thephone into the WEB paricing, so unless you want the web broser, they won;t actually flow the minutes. I cannot use the phone for my EVDO connection on the laptop, even though the signal strength on the phone is better than the card. In NO case can I EVER use the bluetooth hookup between the phone and laptop for anything. I just got a teather cable and will try that out this next week.
IMHO VZ is still trying to milk every last penny out of me in so many differnt ways that I just get tired and give up trying to understand them. And they really double talk you about what plan does what, how minutes are charged, what hooks to what, the real reasons that EVDO and bluetooth do not do what they should....
Now I would consider myself to be very close to an expert in this field and understand not only how all of it works, but the cell sites, the services, etc. I get fed up after about 15 minutes of trying to talk intelligently to phone clones who don't even understand what the term EVDO means. IMHO, VZ also uses the ingorance factor to bully everyone into a corner about service. Ignorance on the consumers part and ignorance on their Customer service part.
They rely on "shiny things" marketing and if your willing to just pay and enjoy it, they want that. Any hint of trying to undertand it, use it, modify it is severly dealt with. Try using your EVDO card for VoIP. Shutdown the next day. |
