[joemack]

I don't know if this will help you, but this is my experience with Verizon. I know nothing about Alltel.

I just recently purchased my 6800 off of ebay. While activating cell service, I was given the option of purchasing a data plan or a "pay as needed" data plan, which is what I chose. Then, I called Verizon to ask for a data block, which they happily did.

The phone did try to connect to data ocassionally via #777, so I called Verizon and they took me through the steps to delete #777 from my ppc.

Hope that helped.