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Mobile Devices and Services (MDS) Master Contract: Preferred Plans 


1. Cell Phone Rate Plans

2. Push-to-Talk (PTT) Plans

3. Data Rate Plans


Cellular Phone Rate Plans

Contractors Light User Medium User Heavy User Power User
AT&T Mobility (less than 540 minutes) Pay as you go plan Monthly Access at $10.39 + $0.07 per minute (540 to 940 minutes) Monthly Access $47.99 with 900 minutes + $0.40 per additional minute (940 to 1400 minutes) Monthly Access $63.99 with 1350 minutes + $0.35 per additional minute (Over 1400 minutes) Contact Account Representative
Sprint/Nextel Contact Account Representative (40 to 440 minutes) Monthly Access $29.99 with 400 minutes + $0.40 per additional minute (440 to 1040 minutes) Monthly Access $44.99 with 1000 minutes + $0.40 per additional minute (Over 1040 minutes)
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Verizon (less than 130 total minutes) Pay as you go plan. Monthly Access of $11.99 + $0.25 per min. (130 to 515 minutes) Monthly Access $32.79 with 450 minutes + $0.25 per additional min. (515 to 965 minutes) Monthly Access $49.19 with 900 minutes + $0.25 per additional min. (Over 965 minutes) Contact Account Representative
T-Mobile (less than 325 total minutes) Monthly Access $25.49 with 300 minutes + $0.35 per additional min. (325 to 650 minutes) Monthly Access $33.99 with 600 minutes + $0.35 per additional min. (650 to 1100 minutes) Monthly Access $50.99 with 1000 minutes + $0.35 per additional min. (Over 1100 minutes) Contact Account Representative

Notes for all rate plans:
  1. All are nationwide with no roaming charges.
  2. Free mobile-to-mobile (MM) applies except Verizon's $11.99 rate plan (see note #5 below) and T-Mobile’s $25.49 rate plan (see note #6 below).
  3. All except Verizon's $11.99 rate plan include free nights and weekends.
  4. Night start/end times vary by contractor.
  5. Verizon's $11.99 rate plan (pay as you go) has no included minutes and is $.25 per minute, regardless of termination point or time of day/week, i.e. no free MM, no free evenings and no free weekends.
  6. T-Mobile’s $25.49 plan includes only 300MM minutes. If you exceed the 300MM minutes, your 300 “anytime” minutes will be charged. When you go over your 300 “anytime” minutes, you will be charged $.35 per minute.
  7. All provide pooling plans at the account number level. Verizon charges $4.10 per line extra to pool plan minutes.
  8. For Chargeable calls (out-of-network, non-weekends and day-time), usage charges are based on either outbound or inbound minutes.

Push-to-Talk (PTT) Plans

Contractors Light User Medium User Heavy User Power User
AT&T Mobility Unlimited PTT is $9.99

Unlimited PTT is $9.99

Unlimited PTT is $9.99

Unlimited PTT is $9.99

Sprint/Nextel Free PTT with phone plan

Free PTT with phone plan

Free PTT with phone plan

Free PTT with phone plan

Verizon (less than 515 minutes)
$8.20 additional to above phone plan's Monthly Access rate of $32.79 or $40.99
(515 to 965 minutes)
$8.20 additional to above phone plan's Monthly Access rate of $49.19 or $57.39
(965 to 1415 minutes)
$8.20 additional to above phone plan's Monthly Access rate of $65.59 or $73.79
Contact Account Representative
T-Mobile T-Mobile doesn't offer push-to-talk

T-Mobile doesn't offer push-to-talk

T-Mobile doesn't offer push-to-talk

T-Mobile doesn't offer push-to-talk



Data Rate Plans

Contractors Data Plan Descriptions
AT&T Mobility  Monthly Access- $39.99 for unlimited use for Blackberry/Good Wireless Email – Stand Alone
Monthly Access- $35.99 for unlimited use for Blackberry/Good Wireless Email - Add to Voice
Monthly Access- $35.99 for unlimited use for PDA Connect - Stand Alone
Monthly Access- $31.99 for unlimited use for PDA Connect - Add to Voice
Sprint/Nextel Blackberry Data Plan
Broadband Unlimited connection Card Access - $49.99
5G Connection card - $42.99
Verizon Standard Monthly Access Fee - $64.79 for Voice and Data – 450 anytime minutes with $.25/Min overage rate with Unlimited Data Allowance (National Access) and $0.002 per minute National Access Roaming
Standard Monthly Access Fee - $89.59 for Voice and Data – 1350 anytime minutes with $.25/Min overage rate with Unlimited Data Allowance (National Access) and $0.002 per minute National Access Roaming.
Data only: Broadband at $59.99; National Access at $49.19; PDA-Smartphone or Blackberry at $40.99/$29.99
T-Mobile 29.99 Unlimited BEZ BlackBerry Data (Enterprise Server)
19.99 Unlimited BIZ BlackBerry Data (Push Technology)
19.99 Total Internet (Windows Mobile)