Ray, did you get online with your changes?...and what phone did you
get and what cable...and all. I'm thinking of getting a new phone
from verizon. Please keep me posted. Thanks
--dp
On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Dean Perry wrote:
> I hope people answer this post. I'm thinking of changing to
> Altel...?????. I have the same problem using my old phone to get
> online backdoor. Please let me know if you are able to get online
> backdoor with your new phone. My old phone is fine 'cept after i
> changed operating systems, It won't let me authenticate. I'm
> wondering if they have closed the backdoor on my phone #???
>
> --dp
>
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Ray Ferrara wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I went down to my local Verizon Store and selected the
> > RAZR V3M to replace my
> > Moto T-720. My old phone still works well but I want a more up to
> > date phone with the
> > capability to use it occasionally as a modem for my I-Book as I
> > have been doing sucessfully
> > for years w/o a data plan ... just use my voice plan minutes.
> >
> > The salesman told me that if I did not buy a data plan, there was
> > some default switch in the
> > phone that would not allow me to get on-line via the Express
> > Network. He went on to further
> > say that Verizon has done this on all there new phones to stop us
> > from using this backdoor. I
> > left without purchasing the phone but started thinking that the
> > only way that they could do
> > this was to change some code (MOU?) in my plan. My theory is that
> > once I picked up the
> > Office Kit, he immediately jumped and asked how I was going to use
> > it. I told the truth but if I
> > had stated that I just wanted to use it to sync my phone to my I-
> > Book, he would not have said
> > or done anything.
> >
> > Has anyone run into this situation lately?
> >
> > ~Ray
> >
> >
> >
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