{"id":240336,"date":"2010-01-27T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/391d619482e6c234d8b7cc48dc1fd40f"},"modified":"2010-01-27T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:45:00","slug":"article-verizon-wireless-to-launch-prepaid-blackberry-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/240336","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon Wireless to launch prepaid BlackBerry plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/92455-Verizon-BlackBerry-Curve-8530-Smartphone_2.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Curve 8530\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the increasing popularity of prepaid, smartphones have been notoriously absent from the mix.&nbsp; Thanks to Verizon Wireless, new plans may enter the picture.<\/p>\n<p>According to rumors, Verizon Wireless will launch prepaid BlackBerry plans within the next three months.&nbsp; The e-mail and web plan will cost $35 monthly, and will be in addition to an applicable voice plan.&nbsp; Given the proximity to postpaid plans, I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s a pretty decent deal.&nbsp; No word on the costs of the various devices (or what devices will be available, for that matter), but the idea of additional contract-free options seems pretty tempting to me.<\/p>\n<p>With the T-Mobile prepaid options, the BoostBerry, and now this, prepaid is becoming a bit more enticing.&nbsp; Anyone agree?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2010\/01\/26\/verizon-wireless-lining-up-to-offer-prepaid-blackberry-plans\/\" >BGR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bberrydog.com\/2010\/01\/verizon-to-offer-prepaid-blackberry-devices\/\" >BBerryDog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rrdYseUbnHoF7KuXHFoZXEDhNU8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rrdYseUbnHoF7KuXHFoZXEDhNU8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rrdYseUbnHoF7KuXHFoZXEDhNU8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rrdYseUbnHoF7KuXHFoZXEDhNU8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/N4KkkUjginM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the increasing popularity of prepaid, smartphones have been notoriously absent from the mix.&nbsp; Thanks to Verizon Wireless, new plans may enter the picture. According to rumors, Verizon Wireless will launch prepaid BlackBerry plans within the next three months.&nbsp; The e-mail and web plan will cost $35 monthly, and will be in addition to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}