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Verizon Introduces New Forward-to-Plane Service

Mar 3, 2004, 11:49 AM by (staff)

Verizon Wireless and Verizon Airfone yesterday announced a new service for Verizon Wireless customers who travel frequently by plane. The $10/month service lets customers forward their Verizon Wireless phone number to their at-seat phone on board any of the more than 2,000 planes served by Verizon Airfone. The service also reduces the in-flight call cost to just $0.10 per minute (normally $3.99 to set up plus $3.99 per minute).

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milhous

Mar 3, 2004, 4:13 PM

Oh Wonderful!

Making niche product feature announcements when VZW really needs to:

*offer newer phones brought to market FASTER, regardless of the comprehensive "testing" they must do to certify them for use. having a phone released that is 6-12 months after it's available to other carriers is unacceptable.

*offer more than the pocketpc smartphones and quickly certify the handspring treo 600 for use on the network.

*offer phones that have bluetooth, while our gsm counterparts have them already.

*reignite relations with sony-ericsson and nokia to give customers better selection then the cookie-cutter lg,samsung,kyocera phones.

*push for mobile phone makers to integrate qualcomm msm6800 processor to enable use on gsm networks when travelling...
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phonegirl58

😁 I guess that why Verizon is making money while others are not.

vzwsys

Actually, Verizon doesn't use many brands of phones because of the poor quality. The Nokia 6185 was launched by Sprint PCS with an 85% return rate due to poor performance. quality phones + higher quality network = better network experience.

ScribeD

"*offer newer phones brought to market FASTER"

Sorry, I prefer a phone that works rather than just looks cool. Even going CDMA to CDMA... step inside a Sprint store one day and check out their "Technical assitance" area. They swap phone more than...
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