VERIZON WIRELESS - Get 2000 Free Text Messages with Unlimited Data
Hi all,
If you have an unlimited data plan, you can get a monthly 2000 text message allotment for free!
The feature is called "PDA SMS 2000 AllOWANCE".
For those of us using AUTD for push-like email, this is a nice feature, as a text message is sent every time a new email arrives. I believe that this feature is designed precisely for use with AUTD, but it just gives you 2000 text messages for whatever purpose you want, and they don't ask whether you're using AUTD.
In fact, as you might guess, the reps are pretty oblivious about this feature, and have to be convinced that it exists. The Wireless Data department is your best bet at 866-788-9387.
YOU MUST TELL THEM THAT YOU HAVE A Microsoft SERVER AT YOUR JOB AND THAT YOU NEED THE 2000 PLAN TO CORRECTLY HANDLE PUSH MAIL
In case they still claim not to be able to help you ..... tell them its code # 70246
I was able to get this added in 5 minutes. My sister tried to and apparently it took 2 phone calls. They will pretend that this feature doesn't exist, and that you're crazy to think that you can get 2000 text messages for nothing. Persist.
Don't take no for an answer.
Tried once before to add this feature a few months ago without any luck. With the code 70246 had no problems. The CS rep just had to delete the old SMS plan and then add this one on. 5 minutes total
I had them add this to my plan a month ago, this month I was charged for text messages....(I did not have the code number though)
Called Verizon today, and the rep on the phone said that since it was a consumer pda phone, and not a business that she couldn't add it.
I was persistent, as I own a business, and have not less than 18 phones with them including family, the supervisor added the service and said that he couldn't gaurantee that it would stick because business and consumer are separate, and that I should check next months bill, they also gave me a credit on the current bill.
hope it stays, so that I don't have to call again, we use an exchange server to push mail via sms messages!
I had them add this to my plan a month ago, this month I was charged for text messages....(I did not have the code number though)
Called Verizon today, and the rep on the phone said that since it was a consumer pda phone, and not a business that she couldn't add it.
I was persistent, as I own a business, and have not less than 18 phones with them including family, the supervisor added the service and said that he couldn't gaurantee that it would stick because business and consumer are separate, and that I should check next months bill, they also gave me a credit on the current bill.
hope it stays, so that I don't have to call again, we use an exchange server to push mail via sms messages!
Michael
Sure you do.......
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VZW, It's 2009! Time to embrace technology, not suppress it. - oops too late I've moved on over to the iPhone w/ AT$T!
So the unlimited data plan does NOT regularly include SMS as well? I'm starting to rethink purchasing a PDA plan. I think thats a little much with the voice and data cost plus the SMS fee.
It includes it in the sense that YOU can add the 2000 SMS plan for free if you have the unlimited data plan. VZW doesn't add the free SMS plan by default with the unlimited data plan because that would be too easy.
I just had it added myself. They also created a case file and may be crediting me for my overages since they started offering the 2000 SMS plan. Now that's what I'm talking about!
Been lurking for years and had to post on this one...
You guys ROCK! Great forum, great information, and great tip!
Verizon *611 Customer service person was confused and assured me that my unlimited data plan allowed me to check my email as much as I wanted. I gave her the code, she had to call Data support herself, but 6 minutes later she came back saying it's all set!
I just called and they couldn't locate the PDA SMS 2000 ALLOWANCE, but did tell me that the Exchange SMS alerting was now under a description called OFFICE MESSAGE ALERTS.
I just called, it took 5 minutes. The CS rep tried to offer me the 2500 minutes for whatever a month. I told him about the plan and gave him the "code". He laughed and I said, isn't the Internet a wonderful thing! Anyway, he called the DTS department and 2 minutes later he said that the feature had been added to my phone. Thanks!
Can someone pls explain what all is involved in setting your i730 up to be on Exchange Server? (I use mine only for personal, not corporate, use.) Thank you.
2000 free texts each and every month, just by doing this?! Seems to good to be true - definitely something I am going to try.
Not for free---but if you cough up 44.99 for the data plan, then you get this. Just make sure you tell the CS rep the number and name of the feature--I'll guarantee you they have never heard of it before.
Can someone pls explain what is involved in setting your i730 up to be on Exchange Server? Pros/cons. (I use mine only for personal, not corporate, use.) Thank you.
Hosted exchange servers such as 1 and 1 sync your PIM data and email using ActiveSync Exchange (although I sync email separately through the exchange host's IMAP server).
I like it better than using ActiveSync because I am syncing over the air to a server that is keeping all of my computers synced.
You'll need to learn how to set up Outlook for it, but it's pretty painless. Search the boards on "hosted exchange".
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