Confused on PCS Vision, etc etc...

[lotherius]

Former Cingular customer here.... I was referred to Sprint by a friend of mine.

She uses her bluetooth phone to tether a Palm Zire 72... she says that the basic data plan she uses is only $5/month (apparently set up in February 06)...

When I set up my account, I chose the Katana. I knew it would not do Sprint TV at the time, which was okay, because I don't WANT Sprint TV...

However, I was told that the cheapest data plan I could get was the PCS Vision Pack, which is $15/month. All I want to do is use the web browser - I don't need PictureMail, and I especially am not going to use Sprint TV since my phone doesn't even support it!

What is this $5 plan she is on, is it a grandfathered plan no longer available? She says it is data only, no picturemail, no TV, etc. Is it something that is stil available that I could request?

If not, is there any possibility of getting retention to give me a discount on PCS Vision, since my phone doesn't even support half the features of the plan? (that I don't intend to use anyway)...

I never had so much trouble trying to figure out what cost what before I switched to Sprint... hoping this wasn't a bad move.

[Nauticaboy503]

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first of all your phone will do everything that is included in a PCS vision pack. it DOES NOT hoever, support a POWER vision pack. Retentions is who could get you a discounted rate but they are there to keep customers, not to give freebies to new members. The rate she got, IF it was not discounted before to make it $5 was adding vision to a sub line.

[lotherius]

There does not appear to be a Media Player on the Katana, which is what I see mentioned for any of the media features (other than picturemail/web) of PCS Vision. Sprint's site claims PCS Vision includes SprintTV, but there is no way (that I've yet found) to access that on this phone without getting the $9.99 TV package (which is not live of course)... Not that I want TV, just not sure how my phone would support it.