End of Monthly Fee for VCAST

As mentioned earlier in an article we had about the US debut of the Chocolate from LG, the monthly charge of $15 for access to Verizon‘s VCAST music service has been suspended in favor of a pay per download sales model. Verizon announced its plan to eliminate the monthly charge in conjunction with the release of the Chocolate and corresponding rate plans for service.

For around $200 you can get a Chocolate phone with a two year contract and a 2GB SD memory card. Songs in the VCAST store cost $1.99. When you buy a song at that price you can download the song once with the phone and also once with your PC at home. Verizon stirred up quite a bit of controversy not long ago when they decided to cripple the phones they sold.

The phones in question would not play the MP3s from an owner’s collection, instead the phones would only play music bought from the VCAST store.

Although Verizon is still working on the software repair designed to fix the problem, they continue to claim that the problem is temporary and related to “integration challenges” and not a ploy designed by Verizon leaders to force their customers to buy music from the Verizon owned VCAST store.

As mentioned earlier in an article we had about the US debut of the Chocolate from LG, the monthly charge of $15 for access to Verizon‘s VCAST music service has been suspended in favor of a pay per download sales model. Verizon announced its plan to eliminate the monthly charge in conjunction with the release of the Chocolate and corresponding rate plans for service.

For around $200 you can get a Chocolate phone with a two year contract and a 2GB SD memory card. Songs in the VCAST store cost $1.99. When you buy a song at that price you can download the song once with the phone and also once with your PC at home. Verizon stirred up quite a bit of controversy not long ago when they decided to cripple the phones they sold.

The phones in question would not play the MP3s from an owner’s collection, instead the phones would only play music bought from the VCAST store.

Although Verizon is still working on the software repair designed to fix the problem, they continue to claim that the problem is temporary and related to “integration challenges” and not a ploy designed by Verizon leaders to force their customers to buy music from the Verizon owned VCAST store.