from a post in the phone forum, from somebody, talking to vzw CS about this LOST DUN connection
verizon CS wrote:
Until recently, the only procedure in place to stop customers from using their handsets as modems to provide access to National or BroadbandAccess was by conducting audits of data used by our customers and disabling National/BroadbandAccess on high use accounts that were using these services without a data plan. The consequence is that these accounts could no longer access services such as Get It Now, Mobile Web, or VCast.
Verizon Wireless has found a solution to this issue and has now implemented it on our network and within our newer handsets. Our newest handsets now support the ability to allow the network to detect the initializing source of the data connection. This means that our network can now detect if the data connection is being initiated by the handset (Get It Now, Mobile Web, or VCast) or by a computer (Mobile Office kit or Dial-Up Networking). The network will allow handset-initiated connections to function normally and will block computer-initiated connections for accounts that are not provisioned with a data plan.
from here
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?p=10919843I believe part of this is the EVDO ID in the phone cellnumber@dun.vzw3g.com
and part of it , is system software, that says this is a data call, and this account has NO data provision
they are closing the 1x minutes, backdoor, slower and later than i was informed last year, but verizon is closing it.
how long, the $15 mobileweb vcast. 'sneak in' will keep working, i don't know