Yes, VZW - also confirmed today by a Porsche Connect rep on the phone who was assisting me getting the car connected today. She had no other info other than WiFi is waiting for the switchover from AT&T.
I saw the data package on the web. Circa £20 for 8GB of data. Not the best data package. I’ve got an unlimited data sim in the wife’s car and it costs me £12 a month.
https://www.porsche.com/usa/connect/
Be careful to watch for the AT&T ‘invite’ email - somehow my esim was not registered to me - I didn’t know I needed an additional data plan so it silently expired and now my car is gimped. AT&T say they need the sim ICC number and the Porsche dealer doesn’t know how to get it or to enable this process..
Wait, what? I'm pretty sure that connect services are included for a number of years, and they haven't yet enabled the hotspot plan (which I think is going to be Verizon, at least according to Connect support).
Yeah, I was pretty surprised too.. My car's 'data' plan just stopped working - so no connectivity to the Porsche Connect servers for location, no Apple music, no 'Internet Radio', no live traffic info and my profile is not able to load because the car cannot connect to data.
Have you tried calling Porsche Cars North America? I find them helpful.Yeah, I was pretty surprised too.. My car's 'data' plan just stopped working - so no connectivity to the Porsche Connect servers for location, no Apple music, no 'Internet Radio', no live traffic info and my profile is not able to load because the car cannot connect to data.
It is showing a strike-through kind of like =/= next to the status symbol for my phone you can see it in the attached photo (IMG_7200.jpg).
The Porsche service guys dont have a clue, nor do sales. Porsche Connect told me to call AT&T, AT&T say the VIN isn't registered, and to go to the dealer, and the dealer says call Porsche Connect.
Note - I'm not referring to the Wifi hotspot feature - which the car is actually saying it can do (Media, click on the wifi thing and ... and 'internet hotspot') .. this is an actual improvement yesterday the Wifi wasn't showing up at all. It showed up after the 3rd 'factory reset' - the first two attempts failed with a nice message. See the missing QR code and Wifi password.. A minute later the QR updated and my phone was able to connect to the car - data still doesn't work.. baby steps.
Was going to call Porsche again today, got busy..
Since pickup last Friday my Porsche Charger has been a brick, in a continuous “downloading” loop, with the Porsche Connect App only operating about 1/3 of the time. WiFi hotspot has only showed up once. I’ll try the Porsche call in number this weekend, hope they can walk me through to connectivity.Yeah, I was pretty surprised too.. My car's 'data' plan just stopped working - so no connectivity to the Porsche Connect servers for location, no Apple music, no 'Internet Radio', no live traffic info and my profile is not able to load because the car cannot connect to data.
It is showing a strike-through kind of like =/= next to the status symbol for my phone you can see it in the attached photo (IMG_7200.jpg).
The Porsche service guys dont have a clue, nor do sales. Porsche Connect told me to call AT&T, AT&T say the VIN isn't registered, and to go to the dealer, and the dealer says call Porsche Connect.
Note - I'm not referring to the Wifi hotspot feature - which the car is actually saying it can do (Media, click on the wifi thing and ... and 'internet hotspot') .. this is an actual improvement yesterday the Wifi wasn't showing up at all. It showed up after the 3rd 'factory reset' - the first two attempts failed with a nice message. See the missing QR code and Wifi password.. A minute later the QR updated and my phone was able to connect to the car - data still doesn't work.. baby steps.
Was going to call Porsche again today, got busy..
