Does anyone know if you can have the PDA SMS 2000 Allowance added without having a data plan?
The cell towers around me are so maxed out it is ridiculous and I don't have the cash for a data plan. Already to the penny every month after buying supplies, tools and testing equipment. Anyway... on a family share plan since it was cheaper and we use it for business and don't have a need for data at the moment.
I have two Exchange 2007 servers going into two companies that I support and one Exchange 2003 server at the home office. Also Spiceworks is being setup along with a few other monitoring apps. I want to have SMS alert messages sent to me from exchange and other various apps. Anyone have any tips how I can have the PDA SMS Allowance 2000 without a data plan?
No you can't add the SMS allowance without the data plan. The whole reason for the SMS 2000 Allowance is for pre-SP2 Exchange 2003 (including Exchange 5.5 and 2000) servers to have the ability to sync with your device. If you have Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003, then it's far less overhead on data, server, the network, etc, if you sync with https push, than with text messaging.
Plus the txt message that was sent from the Exchange server to your device was used to initiate the connection, not to give anything other than a "Sync Now" command, at which point your phone connects to the server and sync that information over the Data Connection.
So without a data plan, it would just be a txt messaging plan, and couldn't be used with an Exchange server.
So if you want to sync with your Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003 servers, you will need a data plan, otherwise you aren't going to sync anything...
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I don't want to sync at all. I want to be able to receive SMS alert messages. Up time is the name of the game here.
Then you will have to pay for an SMS message plan, or pay per TXT message... Simple as that. The 2000 SMS allowance was designed for servers that didn't have the new push enabled with SP2 for Exchange, allowing users to sync without running up HUGE txt message bills. This is why they are phasing it out, because most users are now using SP2 2003 and higher...
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I posted over at HJ as to my experience with this and thought I would paste it here just to report:
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Here's my experience with this: (not good)
First call in lasted 1hr 10min.s
First rep after deciding he was in the texas call center and I needed my "regional" center placed me on hold for aprox 10 min.s (I also requested a data center rep at this point, as noted in this thread numerous times)
Next rep quickly had no clue and placed me on hold for about 5 min.s
Third rep looked into and found something but had to check back n forth while reading the "terms" of the PDA SMS 2000 ALLOWANCE at times like she was talking to me and other times as if to herself, with her supervisor. {placed on hold about 6 times during this whole ordeal - avg hold times. = 5 min.s each} Finally she decide my XV6700 already had this feature built in but when I said if I get txt through push email and Microsoft server, wouldn't I get charged still and she couldn't answer that part.
1 hr and 10 min. later I ended the conversation w/ a thanks but not satisfied...
2nd call in lasted 25 min.s (mostly hold time)
(Note: This time I selected tech support - data...rep) This rep similarly stumbled through trying to find something on this... finally transfered me to customer support and after another "have to check w/ supervisor", it was reported to me that they knew exactly what I was talking about - reading back to me PDA SMS 2000 AllOWANCE was once available but is no more....
It seems that Verizon has dropped this plan, so if you don't have it by now, you won't be able to get it. I would also say that once you change your plan, this will also go away from current people. (so when you get a new phone, it will go away...).
You can try, but I would say that you will be wasting time trying to get it at this point. Everyone I known that has tried in the past two months to obtain this feature has failed, and even with knowledgeable reps, have been told it's not longer offered.
So this is now no more...
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I was able to keep mine. Purchase of the phone had no impact on plan or features except extending contract. The next day, I added another line and changed my plan to one that was a little better, and still kept the SMS2000 feature (although I made sure to tell the CSR that I would not change plans if I lost that feature, she tested to make sure I wouldn't lose it before confirming the plan change).
I was able to keep mine. Purchase of the phone had no impact on plan or features except extending contract. The next day, I added another line and changed my plan to one that was a little better, and still kept the SMS2000 feature (although I made sure to tell the CSR that I would not change plans if I lost that feature, she tested to make sure I wouldn't lose it before confirming the plan change).
Alan
ditto......
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Still got mine, it was a condition of me buying the phone. I wasn't going to do my i760 upgrade unless I got to keep it.
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