Comments on: Verizon HQ: Extra $15 For Exchange? – Let Us Clarify

By: Rubin

Rubin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:32:26 +0000

Doesn’t matter, Verizon is still ran by a bunch of dumb monkeys. DAM YOU DIRTY APES!!!

By: AdamR

AdamR — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:37:54 +0000

Just picked up the Droid in-store, and got a $30 plan using Exchange even on a corporate account (no forcing or even questioning of usage for $45 by rep). Being a corporate account, the $100 was instant (even in-store).

By: Ed Burnette

Ed Burnette — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:42:38 +0000

Can someone confirm data usage caps on all these plans? Web site seemed to imply 5G cap and expensive overage on all but $50 plan.

By: Jay Lee

Jay Lee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:33:37 +0000

I was suspicious when I first saw this. Exchange will appear to the Verizon network as just HTTPS traffic between the device and the company’s Exchange server. It would not be very easy for Verizon to isolate that data on their network and allow/disallow based on your data plan.

They could of course enable/disable the feature in the Android 2.0 firmware but I believe Google wrote the Exchange code (and licensed Activesync from Microsoft) so I doubt they’d be to happy to see Verizon do that. Not to mention that Exchange support is part of the Android 2.0 SDK so firmware hackers would have no problem at all adding it back in.

Jay

By: skee

skee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:51:45 +0000

Maybe Gearlog can ask why Verizon will be shafting everyone with raised Early Termination Fees – increasing from $175 to $350!!! FU verizon!!! I’ll stick with GSM where at least I can pull the SIM and move where I want.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:20:54 +0000

VZW will charge $30 per phone or (Droid) for the data packages. That is how it works with the blackberries my fiance and I have now. VZW will keep it the same for Droids.

By: Nexeo

Nexeo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:53:28 +0000

Zaggs: During my previous job as a network administrator, I got emails constantly through exchange. Server and network hardware monitoring emails, messages from coworkers, etc. Also, I do constantly stream media through Pandora and youtube. If you’re someone like me who will be taking full advantage of the phone (Droid) and the awesome 3G network VZW provides then you’ll probably need the unlimited plan. I like to stream everything at the highest quality, because I can. It is certainly possible to break 5gb in one month, but not everyone will do it. I was simply saying that there isn’t a direct 15$ charge simply for accessing Exchange and explaining where the idea of the charge actually comes from.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:14:47 +0000

@Toby
Let me simplify that. If you are buying this phone as a consumer, just get the $30 data plan. If you are unable to connect to your company’s Exchange server, call your company’s IT department. They should be able to tell you whether your data plan is the problem or not, though I’m highly doubtful it will be.

By: toby

toby — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:04:49 +0000

Goddammit why is this so confusing to people? For corporate users, it depends on the way your Admins configure Exchange and what they do and don’t allow. Technically only the $30 plan is required for Exchange but your company may vary… And therefore, may require the $45 plan.

By: AtomicCEO

AtomicCEO — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:24:44 +0000

Sometime earlier this year, Verizon only had an expensive unlimited data plan. Then, they introduced one for $30 that was unlimited except that they said they wouldn’t support Exchange push.

I called them up, and asked about it, and asked how they were going to be blocking push email, and they couldn’t answer.

So I switched to the cheap data plan and enabled push. It worked. It worked perfectly for 6 months until I switched to T-Mobile for the G1. Don’t buy the expensive one unless you’re a sucker.

By: JoeHockey

JoeHockey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:02:56 +0000

Reading all this about pricing I have a question. We have a family plan and will be adding two Droids when my son and I upgrade. Will I be adding one $30 data plan to my family plan or is it two $30 data plans, one for each phone?

By: Zaggs

Zaggs — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:33:11 +0000

Nexeo, unless you’re constantly getting videos in your email your not going to go over any data usage in the plan (forget the fact Verizon does not list a cap on the website). For instance I have the $30 plan for the Storm. My email gets pushed (whether its pop3 or exchange means nothing) basically as soon as it gets in. Guess how many times I’ve gone over some data usage? Wait, I haven’t. The problem with data limits comes with tethering (5gb limit). Thats the money grubbing charge. The $45 is for BES or BIS etc syncing as they seem to view it as a form of tethering.

Anthony, The $30 plan they’ll force on you is fine for pop3 email, unlimited.

By: Big Red

Big Red — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:11 +0000

@Anthony Yes. You get to use with an unlimited number of email accounts, POP3, Gmail, etc etc.

@ferlin Again, yes. I’m curious to see how that would work (usability and quality and such), but I guess we’ll find out soon enough. :-D

By: ferlin

ferlin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:49 +0000

This article says that there is a $50 data only plan. So I can get a data only plan for my droid and just use google voice for calls and texting?

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:54:34 +0000

pfft, 5GB is a ton of data anyway. combined, my Exchange acct and gmail acct are less than 1GB, and that’s over 3 or 4 years of stuff. i’ll take the $30, thankyouverymuch