Granted, to get a discount on a PDA smart phone, they have a right to insist you sign up for a data plan. I'd even be ok with them doing that in cases where you don't get a discount—it's Verizon's prerogative to sell their phones how they want.
But... If I get a compatible phone somewhere else, they have no right to force an extra plan down my throat—they should be obligated, by law, to allow me to use other compatible phones with their plans. If I don't require a data plan, they can simply data-lock my plan, but forcing an extra monthly cost because based on a particular phone I use is misuse of their monopoly and public use of airwaves.
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