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Verizon’s Droid: $15 Per Month Extra For Exchange Support

Source: Mashable!

Nov 03, 2009

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The Motorola Droid might not hit Verizon stores and authorized retailers until Friday, but details on the available data plans are already emerging.

If you’re thinking about getting a Droid to use with a Microsoft Exchange e-mail account (one of the many new features with the included Android 2.0 software), be prepared to fork over some extra cash for the privilege. Verizon will be charging $44.99 a month for users who want Exchange support, versus the $29.99 for users that don’t.

Verizon will offer three tiers of data plans:

$30 per month on top of your voice plan to add data and non-Exchange support

$45 per month on top of your voice plan to add data and Exchange support

$50 per month for a data-only plan

Verizon justifies the Exchange surcharge by saying that the Droid is primarily a consumer phone and that the corporate e-mail usage increase also applies to other smartphones, like the BlackBerry, and isn’t specific to just the Droid.

This may be true, but at least in the case of the BlackBerry, users pay an increased fee in part because they are able to use

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