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Ron,
Verizon has been allowing high-speed access to the Internet over any cell phone for just the per-minute usage. So, if you're online for 20 minutes, you used 20 minutes of your alloted time. Of course nights and weekends are unlimited. Basically, it works like a voice call.
I'm not sure if all plans have this, but we have the Family share plan and we have "National Access-Minutes of Use" listed as an option on our bill and we have been using the laptop with a cell phone and get connections to 110k (about 2x a normal modem). We haven't been charged anything extra and it shows up on our bill as regular voice minutes.
From looking on the newsgroups, there was some debate as to how people were put on this plan and it seems that Verizon won't explain it because they try to upsell their other "high-speed" plans. Our best guess is that since Jen has a picture phone, the technology is needed to send the pics, so it's a side-effect.
Also, Verizon is starting to roll out a new high speed service (EDVO?) that is supposed to be equivalent to DSL speeds. Rumor has it that our area (Rochester, NY) will have it by the end of June, but that it will require a special phone or a specific PCMCIA adapter.
Do a search on the news groups on "NA-MOU" and you will see a ton of threads about this. In order to connect to high-speed, if you have the option on your bill, use this info:
phone number is #777 (be sure to include the pound sign).
username is yourphonenum...@vzw3g.com (For example 5551234...@vzw3g.com).
password is vzw
Fred
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