Verizon iPad 2 may require activation fee

jvdrummer182 said:
... am an employee at best buy mobile and have gotten many questions from customers regarding this. I have also contacted our Verizon representative to confirm this....
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Thanks for that. Can you confirm whether the Verizon iPad will send alerts as you approach your data cap like the ATT iPad does?

Chupa Chupa said:
This is sad but also funny. So many people were touting VZW as a better company, not just more reliable wireless. I can't see any reason to buy a VZW iPad w/ this info. It would be better to just tether w/ iPhone.
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All cell companies suck. Just choose your poison.
 
I learned this last week with my xoom. 35 Every time.

The only way around it is to put your plan on a "hold" (for up to six months).
 
kdarling said:
How many people would really go through the trouble of buying a plain WiFi iPad along with Verizon MiFi, but then stop and start data every other month.

It's no different than wanting to stop and start data on an iPhone every other month.

(Not that it wouldn't be nice to be able to do that, as well. But thanks to Apple's and other high subsidies, the days of optional data plans are long gone.)
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Verizon is relatively new to tablets so they have no clue how to handle the data plans for them. I've even seen tablets referred to as phones on their website--that's how clueless they are. lol
 
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darngooddesign said:
jvdrummer182 said:
... am an employee at best buy mobile and have gotten many questions from customers regarding this. I have also contacted our Verizon representative to confirm this....
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Thanks for that. Can you confirm whether the Verizon iPad will send alerts as you approach your data cap like the ATT iPad does?

Chupa Chupa said:
This is sad but also funny. So many people were touting VZW as a better company, not just more reliable wireless. I can't see any reason to buy a VZW iPad w/ this info. It would be better to just tether w/ iPhone.
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All cell companies suck. Just choose your poison.
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I'm not too familiar with the data notification you are referring too. If it's a notification directly from Att, I wouldn't be sure if Verizon would offer the same service. I would suggest asking someone who owns a Xoom; both devices should offer identical experience in terms of Verizon's services.
 
jvdrummer182 said:
I'm not too familiar with the data notification you are referring too...
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IIRC, ATT will send a SMS alert to your iPad that says you are at 80%, then 90%, then 100% with a link to purchase more. If you don't purchase more it stops the data so you can't accidentally accrue charges.
 
I'm getting iPad 2 with At&T but all I really want is the GPS that the wifi doesn't have. I don't think I'm activating the 3g and I'm just going to tether my iPhone 4 to the iPad 2. Verizon sucks for doing this though if it's true. But I've been a customer on At&T for a couple of years now so I choose them.
 
I've had a horrible experience with AT&T's service. I travel the southeast for work and am constantly suffering on EDGE or barely any 3G. Good indicator to know you're getting to a large town is when you see 3G come up on your iPhone. It's like spotting a beacon of light after behind stranded in the sea for hours.

I will gladly pay money to have a better service than suffer like I do with my AT&T iPhone 4. Amazing how some will shell out $829 for a 64 GB 3G iPad and then cry when they're not tailored with cheap plans.

The iPad is perfect for me. I'm always on the road. AT&T would only be good if my house was located under a 3G tower, and then, I wouldn't need 3G because I have WiFi. Since having the iPhone 3G, I've found that it's no different than the iPod Touch. I'm always hunting for wireless because there's not ***** for 3G.

Verizon may be more expensive (and so is Apple). You get what you pay for in terms of AT&T and Verizon. Would you rather have a device that has 3G here and there or one that has slightly slower speeds but practically 3G everywhere?

Travel for a living and you'll understand. Life on AT&T is a b****.
 
Davichi said:
For some yes, but not for everyone.

35 dollars isn't that much to consider from 500-829 dollars device. If you are worried about 35 dollars cost with 529-829 dollars device, you are being cheap or shouldn't even buy one.
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That is ridiculous logic.

When you can get the same exact thing without the $35 fee, paying it does not make sense, regardless of how much the device cost.
 
Anyone heard any updates on this? It would be absurd for them to announce their $20 for 1GB plan but neglect to mention the $35 activation fee.
 
dkuntz said:
Here's a link with excellent information.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/08/inside_att_vs_verizon_ipad_2_data_service_plans.html
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I keep hoping any day now Verizon is going to post more information and clear this up.

Why are they keeping everyone in the dark? Verizon knew they were getting the iPad 2 on their network before it was ever announced to the public, and people will be activating their iPad 3G service through Verizon as early as Friday!

Has Verizon not made up its mind about the activation fee yet, or are they purposefully remaining tight-lipped? Different Verizon reps are giving different and conflicting answers. Even the article referenced above says:

"the company representative we talked to couldn't confirm whether iPad 2 would involve the same activation fee"​



Why the heck not? These are questions Verizon will surely be receiving from customers on Friday. Are they going to wait until Friday morning and then issue a mass memo to employees: "by the way, in case anyone asks, here's our activation fee policy for the iPad 2".

Lack of transparency from a company never looks good, and it definitely won't help them win over new customers (or retain their existing ones).
 
This is why I am sticking with AT&T and switching my 4 lines back to AT&T when my Verizon contract runs out in September. That activation fee is most dissappointing.
 
Mattstkc said:
if I have to pay $35 bucks every time I turn my data on and off that's just bull$h!!. $800 device or not, nickel and diming customers like that is bad business.

VZW will learn it's lesson when iPad GSM outsells iPad CDMA 5 to 1.
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There is a reason why people are still with AT&T. Verizon sucks in customer service.
 
jreuschl said:
The Verizon iPad 1 bundle with mifi apparently required a $35 activation fee at start, plus that fee if you stoppped/restarted the data plan after 6 months. Someone on Apple support forums called Verizon and they said it would be the same way for the iPad 2.

I would hope they would change this, otherwise a huge advantage goes to AT&T unless you always plan on subscribing.
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Verizon... FAIL.
 
Pocketsidewalk said:
I keep hoping any day now Verizon is going to post more information and clear this up.

Why are they keeping everyone in the dark? Verizon knew they were getting the iPad 2 on their network before it was ever announced to the public, and people will be activating their iPad 3G service through Verizon as early as Friday!

Has Verizon not made up its mind about the activation fee yet, or are they purposefully remaining tight-lipped? Different Verizon reps are giving different and conflicting answers. Even the article referenced above says:
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Sounds to me like Verizon is hoping people don't find out about their little scheme and buy the Verizon version thinking "American's largest 3g network -- F AT&T!"

I would love for their plan to become very public and massively backfire. What bloodsucking pricks.
 
Like I said, an activation fee doesn't bother me a bit. I'm going with a far superior network. It's to the point where if it's anything worse than AT&T, I'll just haul a green bean can with miles of wire so that I can communicate.

I'm paying monthly for 3G anyways, so it doesn't bother me. $15 for 250 MB? How about $20 for 1 GB. In my mind, your money goes further with VZW. Hopefully they'll get their plans straight.
 
I find this a bit hard to believe. Even if such a fee does exist for iPad 2 data plans with Verizon, I doubt it would last for more than a week. This would be ideal ammunition for AT&T to use in commercials against Verizon. It seems that all of this talk of activation fees is coming from Verizon customer service reps, and I wouldn't be surprised if they are just going by what is listed for their current 1st gen iPad data plans with their bundled MiFi device. Verizon has yet to list any iPad 2 data plans on their website, so until I see anything there or official word from Verizon and not just from their customer service people, I am not convinced.
 
This is disappointing. I wanted a Verizon iPad as a hedge against my AT&T iPhone: I'd gave data access on vacation on at least one device.

But I'm not paying $55 for 1GB of data ($20 plan + $35 act) when I use it a few times a year.

Verizon could have had my business, but don't seem to want it. So AT&T iPad, it seems.
 
jreuschl said:
The Verizon iPad 1 bundle with mifi apparently required a $35 activation fee at start, plus that fee if you stoppped/restarted the data plan after 6 months. Someone on Apple support forums called Verizon and they said it would be the same way for the iPad 2.

I would hope they would change this, otherwise a huge advantage goes to AT&T unless you always plan on subscribing.
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Lol, is Verizon trying to shoo away customers? AT&T isn't this greedy. So much for the grass is greener.
 
jav6454 said:
Lol, is Verizon trying to shoo away customers? AT&T isn't this greedy. So much for the grass is greener.
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To be fair, Verizon can do this on the XOOM because it's not Apple and because they are subsidizing XOOMs. I don't see them doing this with the iPad. For one I don't think Apple would be happy about it and two, they aren't subsidizing iPads.

Either way if they don't clear this up soon then I for sure will be getting the AT&T 3G model.
 
JoJoCal19 said:
To be fair, Verizon can do this on the XOOM because it's not Apple and because they are subsidizing XOOMs. I don't see them doing this with the iPad. For one I don't think Apple would be happy about it and two, they aren't subsidizing iPads.
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But if you buy a Xoom subsidies then you can't just cancel your data and add it later. You have to keep it for the two years or pay the early termination fee.
 
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