Here's the latest, Elaine from Verizon called me back to tell me they now have control of the MEID (i.e. it is "on their network") but they could assign it the correct rate plan so they're still working on it. She expected a resolution in 72 hours. She said the problem is definitely Lenovo's failure...

I had a similar response from Verizon (they promised to call me back on Tuesday around 3pm, it is now Wednesday night). I agree with your assessment that this is simply a paperwork issue, probably on Lenovo's end. If you get a supervisor in tech support and get "assertive" they will ship you a new G...

Just received word from Lenovo that the replacement Gobi card is on backorder.

I ran into the same Verizon activation problem. Verizon reports the MEID is not active on their network and it is a Lenovo issue. After several calls to the Lenovo activation line, an operator confirmed that the MEID issue is a "known issue" and tech support could fix it. I was eventually transfered...