Good Corporate Email App with Share Everything Plan

[bac881]

Currently use Good for Corporate email.  I was forced, a year ago, to upgrade my unlimited dataplan to a corporate unlimited plan...$45 per month.  Now I want to upgrade phone and see I'll be forced into a tiered plan and unlimited isn't an option.  This may very well push me to Sprint, but if I stay, does anyone know the procedure and any additional costs to add Good to the Share Everything plan?  The last upgrade was an obvious money grab that added zero functionality other than Good (not Verizon provided)...hoping I can just add a code and not more expense.

[bac881 · Accepted solution]

So, I got a response directly from Verizon that with Share Everything Corporate Data was included and I wouldn't be changed extra for using Good for Enterprise.  Laid out a whole sales pitch on all the "extras" I wouldn't need to pay for and what my new "Share Everything" bill would look like.  So, I upgrade spend hours setting up new phone.  Load Good and it doesn't work.  Call Verizon and turns out that is still an extra $15 a month.  They are "really sorry they gave me bad information".  So am I.  Returning phone and dumping Verizon.  As soon as my wife's plan is up we'll never give this company another dime.  F Verizon!

[Carrucan]

May I ask the experts the purpose of the charge for the corporate email access?  I have never really understood what the charge is for.  I have access to my company's Exchange server, originally via Outlook Web Access in Touchdown (about three years ago I could set up Touchdown to scrape OWA), and now directly through Exchange server access via my company's mobile access-authenticated, policy-controlled Android service (I could do iPhone, too).  So I am not sure why VZW (or T-Mo when I had T-Mo service) would charge a Corporate email fee.  What is the charge for, exactly?  Is it for BBM access?  My Blackberry collected dust.  I never used it, never set it up, so I don't know how BB service works.  Do Blackberry messages have to run through a network process different than just accessing Exchanged-based email through a regular data connection?

[Tidbits]

Yes.  There's a huge difference in protocols.  Certain setups(which your company doesn't use) will require more from the connection you are connecting to which carriers have to maintain and update every time your IT guys change something.  So basically you are paying for that support.

[Jax_Omen]

You don't have to move to a Share Everything plan, first of all. You can also simply add the individual tiered data plans in place of your unlimited plan when doing an upgrade.

The individual tiered plans with corporate features are $45 for 2gb or $50 for 5gb. If you get a discount through your employer, this should apply to both plans.

[alfofmelmac]

That is not true. there are no different protocols, setups or anything. Its just network traffic. Worse, this only happens with Android's and not iPhone's. Apparently there is something that Apple has that Verizon either can't control or was a part of their agreement. This is just a tax that Verizon Wireless is charging.

This is a clear violation of Net Neutrality laws and I'd suggest folks write congress.

[Tidbits]

They use different protocols and different servers bro. I have used BB before on multiple levels and there's a reason why a lot of stuff only works with BB for example.

[alfofmelmac]

Its still TCP/IP regardless. It works on Wi-Fi without a data plan. I've watched the traffic. That's really not the point.

the issues, regardless of the protocols being different, same, whatever, is charging me $15 per month is just a rape fee.

It also appears to clearly violate net neutrality as Verizon tries to dictate what traffic I can use with my data plan.

[Tidbits]

Net neutrality doesn't exist...

[Tidbits]

Anyway no it doesn't. If it cost extra they can charge extra. If they have to install and maintain extra software they can charge if they choose to. Even T-Mobile and smaller carriers charge extra for the corporate data plans which means RIM is getting the extra because YOU use their servers and Verizon has to put extra software to bypass certain ports. Just because you can connect VIA WiFi doesn't mean there are more things required by carriers to accommodate.