Paying that much for a BT GPS puck and then having the hassle of carrying it around, remembering to grab it, keeping it charged, etc, is a non-starter in my book.

If I actually *needed* the GPS functionality to be more accurate than "within 1 to 3 miles", and I couldn't figure out a way to enable the GPS myself, I would just pay the $10 a month to Verizon.

The whole point of having my BB is for my *convenience*. Hassling with a BT puck is a significant degradation of the BB convenience. I'm not going to cut off my nose to spite my face (or spite Verizon, in this case). OTOH, "analyzing" some software/firmware and developing some code to make it work differently - well, that's what I do for a living. Sitting on my couch with my laptop and doing that is much more palatable to me than spending money on a puck and then dealing with all the related PITA factor of that.

Also, I have searched for Verizon/GPS, and there are so many posts - with 99% of them providing no answers to the questions I've posed here - that I have not been able to find answers to my questions.