Mobile broadband phone question - Page 2

 pc wrote:

Doesn't work that way. I'll let the "wonk department" explain the
obvious reason why to you.

  pc wrote:

This statement isn't necessarily true.  In order to make a phone call,
the other end of the phone call has to be terminated on the PSTN (the
Public Switched Telephone Network).  Hooking you up with data access
(i.e. internet access) is not the same thing as this, and there is no
guarantee that having data access on your account means you also have
service that allows you to make phone calls to the PSTN.  You *may*
have that service, but not necessarily.  Many providers, including
your provider Verizone Wireless apparently (according to their web site),
offer plans that are data-only.  You'd have to ask your provider to
find out whether your particular plan is data-only or allows calls
as well.

   - Logan