Verizon brings new bolt-on international data plans to vanilla handsets

Verizon just put the finishing touches on an international data plan rework back in August, but it's now gearing up to offer a pair of roaming options for those without a smartphone / PDA phone. Starting November 16th, VZW customers who own a down-to-Earth dumbphone will be able to pay $19.99 per month for 10MB of international data or $29.99 per month for 20MB; the plan will allow users to access picture / video messaging, Visual Voicemail, mobile IM, BREW downloads or the world wide web. Of course, this cheaper data only works in VZW's list of Preferred Data Coverage countries, which includes just Bermuda, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Saipan, Guam and South Korea. Wait, is that GSM we hear laughing in the corner? Oh, it is.

[carcomptoy Posted Nov 16th 2008 6:16PM]

It's a very loud cackle actually hahahahaha

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2008 7:07PM]

There are several verizon "global" phones that have GSM and CDMA on the same phone. I would think the data plan applies to verizon phones in GSM locations.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2008 10:47AM]

Nope, it's explicit about only being for CDMA (presumably IS-95 and its successors) roaming. This is in the first sentence on the screenshot.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 17th 2008 9:05AM]

So is that 0.002 cents or 0.002 dollars per kb??

http://media.putfile.com/Verizon-Bad-Math