VZW lying?

[turbochris]

I was speaking with a VZW rep, trying to upgrade a phone. I was a little upset as to how many of the nicer phones need a data plan and asked her why it couldn't be per megabyte if I planned on little or no data usage. She told me it's because smartphones, from the moment they're turned on, are constantly shuffling data back and forth through the network. I told her I had a smart phone and unless the data connection was on, how could it be pushing data back and forth?

If it is pushing data back and forth, then it's probably the crapware they jam into the thing when they build it.

I travel so i like the coverage, other than that VZW is extortion