Data plan question- $9.99 75MB

I have signed up for this plan and I am wondering what to expect from it. Can I stay connected to 3G, leave my email open, leave facebook on, etc, and not go over the 75MB?

How does this work?

Can I just use the phone to block the DATA when I don't want to connect to 3G?

Accepted answers

EdW_VZW

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and feedback. The $9.99 plan has been grandfathered for the $10.00 75 Megabyte plan. Adding to what was stated; you can always use the #data (send) feature from your device to check your data usage. If you are needing more than a 75 Megabyte allowance, the $29.99 unlimited data plan would be a good value.

Thanks,

edw@vzwsupport

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fisharefriends

You simply have 75 MB to use, before you are over the limit and may begin incurring extra charges. So that will depend on your usage. email and other 'text only' sites are relatively small; however, if you are auto-syncing your email at a frequent rate, you may find that it will eat up that data really quickly. Also, 1 youtube video may possibly take up that entire 75 MB, depending on the size of the video; in general, videos are very large, pictures are a bit larger, and text is relatively small; you will just have to test this out, and be conservative about your use for the first few months to see how long 75 MB actually lasts you. In reality, 75 MB is a very small amount of data, but depending on your use, it may last you the month, especially if you are mostly on wifi.

Wifi on the Kin phones is relatively spotty..if you have connection, it won't be using any of your data, but if you don't, it will be using your data. And unfortunately the indicator on the phone isn't very accurate, as to when you have a wifi connection. There is no way to 'tell' if you are actually connected to wifi, down to a pinpoint moment. So you could be connected to the wifi, and then momentarily lose the connection, and there is no way to tell; but you will be eating up your 3g data during that time if you arestill surfing; it automatically falls back on the 3g network if no wifi connection is available.

Yes, you can block data from the phone's side; you have to go into the phone's hidden programming menu, and then you can switch the data connections on or off; you will find that this is a hassle though, if you want to do it for regular use.

The way i would suggest in your situation is using airplane (standalone) mode when you know you are in a wifi zone and for-sure want to use wifi only. Airplane mode 'disconnects' you from Verizon connections; that includes calls, texts, and data (3G/1x/EVDO). So, it will be a bit annoying that you won't be able to send/recieve calls and texts while surfing, but you will have the security of knowing you're on wifi.

Daveman80

I have the same plan myself and Ill give you an example on data usage. I am currently half way through the month exactly, 14 out of 28 days and out of the 75 mb, I have used 15. Everyday, when I go home, I connect to my wifi and use my phone to facebook, sync email, cruise various mobile sites, youtube videos, etc. On the weekends and occasionally at work, I cruise online on the 3G to check status updates, email, bing searches/directions, upload pics and what have you. Honestly, the only reason I got the 75 mb plan was because I wanted to be able to do stuff on the weekends while I was out. If you plan to use it daily off 3G, its going to add up quick . Really Quick.

gbalstad

You stated that you have 15mb out of the 75mb. How do you ensure that you are not using any data? What do you turn off/on? Do you have your email on your phone? Does it automatically update?

If you could help me figure this out that would be awesome!

Thanks!

len

How do you see on your smart phone how much of the 75 mb you have used while surfing the internet? Thanks len

fisharefriends

Verizon has a service that you simply can call, and they will automatically just send you a text message (free of charge, if you don't have messaging) containing that info. Call #DATA (#3282) to receive this text.

SydneyK

With a 75MB plan, consider setting your email to check manually. You won't want it polling your email accounts several times an hour.

75MB can go pretty quickly, so I wouldn't leave anything open that can update or sync.

ChrisConnors

My KIN 2 is sitting 8 feet from my Netgear N series that is providing wifi and the phone is showing that it is connected to my router. I am still blowing through my data in a matter of days just using the KIN 2 for email and phone.

Daveman80

Hey Len,

As fish said, you can use #data but me personally, I sign into verizon's website and check data usage there.

len

Thanks will do

ChrisConnors

Thanks to this posting. It was very helpful. All, please see my posting requesting help with problems with my KIN2 and wifi. Here is my last posting but if your are getting excessive data charges, please read all postings under this heading.

To the best of my knowledge my router hasn't had much interruption. My cell phone is sitting next to mycomputer that is also connected wirelessly to the router. I haven't had any time that I could notice a delay in my connection on mycomputer. But as you suggested, I got fed-up and moved to a smart phone. I got the driod 2 with the 150 MB plan for $15 permonth. I didn't want to spend the extra money but I was getting killed with the data charges on the KIN. Verizon couldn't explainwhy it was happening but they still charged me for the data that shouldn't be accruing. They definitely tried to help but at the endof the day, they could find the problem and recommended that I just move

to the unlimited data plan and give them $20 more amonth.

One other thing to note. Everyone at Verizon, including the person that called me and sold the phone to me, kept telling me thethat if I had any problems

what so ever with the phone I could return it in 30 days.In fact, Brian who helped me on last Friday toldme I had until this Friday

before my 30 day window expired to return the phone in case they could fix the problem. But when Icalled them yesterday

to either resolve the problem or I would return the phone they informed me that the hassle free returnwindow is now

14 days and it had expired for me. The 30 day period was changed this year but they apparently did not inform

anyone at Verizon Wireless except the gentleman that was helping me yesterday.

SydneyK

Chris, sorry no one informed you of the change to a 14-day return policy, but at least you were able to get a different phone anyway. But I'm curious, how did you get the $15 data package that's no longer available? Regardless, be careful with the D2 ... I went through 700MB in one week on Android!

Enjoy your new phone!

pufferoni

Does any one at verizon read these? I was told by the person who helped me get this phone that once I activated it, the plan would automatically be the $29.99 data plan, so I had to call and make sure that they changed it to the $9.99 plan. When I activated it, I called to set up the right plan. The verizon person I talked to said that the $9.99 plan was "grandfathered," and couldn't be given out to anyone at this time. So, she had to submit some special request that had to be blessed by verizon, and I won't know if it will go through for days. What gives? Looks like everyone gets that $9.99 plan by just asking for it.

SydneyK

pufferoni wrote:
Does any one at verizon read these? I was told by the person who helped me get this phone that once I activated it, the plan would automatically be the $29.99 data plan, so I had to call and make sure that they changed it to the $9.99 plan. When I activated it, I called to set up the right plan. The verizon person I talked to said that the $9.99 plan was "grandfathered," and couldn't be given out to anyone at this time. So, she had to submit some special request that had to be blessed by verizon, and I won't know if it will go through for days. What gives? Looks like everyone gets that $9.99 plan by just asking for it.

I would call again and talk to someone else. The $9.99 package is not grandfathered ... it's available to anyone with a feature phone. It sounds like the rep you got was confusing it with the $15/150MB package.

fisharefriends

SydneyK is right. They were most likely talking about hte old, grandfathered $15 plan. Also, the rep that told you that you would automatically be signed up for the $30 plan was referring to the old Kin (non m) models, which were a completely separate phone. You will quickly find that not all reps know what they are talking about, and unfortunately, Verizon does not do much about this. I really wish they did better screening for employees, and kept ALL their employees up to date to know all their products, but that is just impossible, especially with such a large company like that. But they really could do better, but again, since it is a large company, unfortunately they think about the big picture most the time, and not the small, isolated cases of poor employees. Cause in general, Verizon customer support is very good, and personally from me and other people i know that have had Verizon and other carriers, Verizon is the best there is in terms of support (and phone service :smileywink: ), it is those sporadic bad employees that spoil things.

EdW_VZW

Thanks,

edw@vzwsupport