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Originally Posted by Mikeuptown
Have seen this discussed elsewhere. From what I gathered, seems like you have to have at least the $30 data plan with pda phones with the familyshare data plans being limited to the feature phones.
If this interpretation is correct, it looks like a serious disconnect to me as your situation is certainly not unique and I would be in the same boat if my wife wasn't a technophobe.
You might want to look at Sprint's $129 Everything Data Family plan that appears to include both feature phone and smartphone data plus unlimited mobile to mobile and 1500 shared voice minutes.
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I am in no way bashing Verizon, but this is why I went with Sprint 1 year ago. I'm not saying you can't use a smartphone on a family data share plan, but I never could figure it out. I read everything on the website, then talked to the phone reps and went to a store and got different answers from everyone.
Most of my local family has Verizon and I looked at them first because of the free verizon to verizon minutes. It was confusing and made me mad. I have 4 phones -- the Touch Pro 2 and 3 feature phones for husband and 2 kids.
Went with Sprint and I have on all of the phones unlimited data, text, pic mail and 1500 minutes. Now with AnyMobile, Anytime I don't have to worry about who is on what carrier. I carry insurance on my phone, but no other extras and my bill is about $180 a month.
I hope you can get a good answer out of them so you can make a good decision. Luckily I didn't go with Verizon, because my sister-in-law (next door neighbor) did and she has no service in her house. She had to fight for one of their femtocels.