Force use of data plan

Went into Verizon WIreless store to buy Unlocked Iphone 5 (I will own outright) and was told that any smartphone must have data plan/
This seems ureasonable as they do not subsidie the phone in any way and I am willing to spend $650.00 for the phone
   I do not understand how they can tell me what I must have on my phone

dimap52 wrote:
It's all going to data eventually anyway. These Shared plans with "unlimited" voice & text are first step along that route. The only reason there is a difference now is that V&T travel over a different type of digital network (circuit-switched) than data does (packet-switched) but that will change once VoLTE is implemented, and V&T will just be another data app.
Yep Verizon will start offering VoLTE next year of course it will be optional or an add on or something like that at first. But Verizon has said itself that it will be refarming it's 1X and 3G spectrum to LTE by 2021. That just 8 years. Of course they could do it sooner as they said BY 2021. Doesn't they'll wait until then. They could do it next year if they wanted too though It's highly unlikely. Wouldn't shock me if they decided to do it within 5 years.

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