Data plan required with a smart phone?

Is Verizon's policy that if you have a smartphone, even one purchased separately, that there has to be a data plan for that phone?
Daughter wants an ipod touch for Christmas; rather than her have both an ipod touch and a dumb-phone, it would make more sense if I could get her an older iphone without a data plan and combine the two, using wifi to download apps.

SeaJohn wrote:
Is Verizon's policy that if you have a smartphone, even one purchased separately, that there has to be a data plan for that phone? Yes. You must have a data plan on any line with a smartphone.
Daughter wants an ipod touch for Christmas; rather than her have both an ipod touch and a dumb-phone, it would make more sense if I could get her an older iphone without a data plan and combine the two, using wifi to download apps.
Just get her the iPod Touch and keep her basic phone, that will give you the best of both worlds until you (or she) is ready to pay for data.

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