Can't activate my Toshiba NETBOOK on the new 3G Netbook $30/2Gig Data PlanI'

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I'm sorry, but THIS one has to be the epitomy of corporate incompetence and technical ignorance that I have ever seen. On the broadband data plan web page, there is now a check box in the 3G Netbooks column for the $30/2Gig plan. I have a Toshiba NB-205 currently on the grandfathered $39.99/250 Meg plan (which is a crappy deal to say the least,, but couldn't justify $60 for 5 Gig i didn't need) so naturally I was delighted to see this plan appear and tried to change to it online. No dice. Only 5 Gig/10 Gig plans available. Went to store. They couldn't add it either but agreed I should be able to have it.
Called Customer Care. CSR couldn't add it. So he called me back and said I didn't qualify for the plan. Why? Because my "device" had an "embedded card" in it.. Doh!! Well, for Verizon's benefit, pssstttt....3G netbooks have embedded modems in them. 3G NOTEbooks too. Usb modems, data cards, Mi-Fi's, and even TABLETS have embedded modems in them.
Apparently they are trying to obfuscate data plan upsells by fragmenting the data plans between NETbooks and NOTEbooks (with embedded dards) and apparently my NETbook does not qualify as a NETbook under this new 3Gig plan. And the simple fact is, I don't WANT the 5 Gig plan.
The CSR also mumbled something about ny not having bought it from Verizon, so apparently THAT diqualified me too.
This is getting REALLY bad folks. Public sentiment concerning these new tiered plans, tethering charges on the capped data plans, and Verizon's notoriously high prices are generating an IMMENSE amount of negative publicity in the blogosphere.
I don't expect any resolution of this issue, as Verizon can, of course, disqualify anything they want from any plan they offer for whatever cock-and-bull reason they can cook up, but this is apallingly idiotic, and a gross insult to the intelligence of anyone who knows the difference between a notebook and a netbook, which for the sake of broandband usage, is no difference at all.

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I'm in St Louis, MO and having the same issues.  I've spoken with Apple on the phone twice, At&t once and they were supposed to call me back with a solution and have not called back.  I went into the Apple store and they changed out my new ipad3 for another new ipad3, but I overheard the manager tell the tech that was helping me to stop doing that because it won't make a difference.  Evidently, there's something not working correctly here and it's affecting a lot of people.  Of course, Apple is saying it's an At&t problem...At&t is saying it's an ipad problem. Just curious...are all of the users that are having problems with the 3G/4G connection with the ipad3 working with At&t?  Or, are we seeing this with other carriers, too?
I've turned off the LTE (as noted in posts above) and will give that a try to see if it at least allows me to have a connection when I'm away from my wi-fi. 
Between this and charging issues...I'm now wondering if I jumped the gun too quickly in getting the ipad3.  I'm appreciating my ipad1 right now and it's lack of issues for the past two years.