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AT&T 3g Edge contract. GET ME OUT MANK!
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only option is to pay the etf and start with a new phone. good thing you will be able to keep your iphone though to use as an ipod
Unless he's still in his first month of 3G service (provided he even HAS a 3G; he didn't say...), then he'll have to return the iPhone.
keep in mind your iPhone will send and recieve data this will exceed $30 a month even when it's not in use.
You can tell your carrier to block data transfers to and from your SIM card, and therefore your phone. But you CANNOT do this with the 3G iPhone, and we don't know what iPhone he even has.
i have a 3G.
no. i don't want to sell it. i just don't want the $30 a month for slow as internet. I wonder if i called at&t and bitched about how where I live I don't even get 3G service they'd let me loose?
HMMMMM.
WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE SO DAMN EXPENSIVE?
they wont let you out. why would they? your only option is to pay the etf and if you have had it longer than 30 days, you dont have to return the phone
also, you knew the cost of the phone before signing the contract. if it was too expensive, you shouldnt have gotten it in the first place...
Agreed. With all things in life it's your job to make sure you can cover the cost. Otherwise you end up paying more anyway....
Man, it's as if they sneakily advertise the $30/month thing right in your face as you sign up for it. I mean geez, does anybody do any checking of stuff before impluse spending on stuff like a phone or car?
i knew how much it was going to cost, its just such a stupid amount of money to pay for a ****ing cell phone. its actually quite sad.
Try to get a FAN discount applied to your account if you don't have one yet then. Every penny helps.
I paid roughly $550 for the iPhone, and I'm totally loving it.
It's called Foundatin Account Number, or simply a discount applied to your AT&T bill. It depends on who you're employer or school is. Once deemed eligible, the discounts range from 5% to 28%, with 15% being the average they give. Search the forums for more info, or Google it. AT&T has a website that will let you use your work/school email address to verify the discount so it could be applied to your account without any hassle of going to a retail store.
Another thing to save money is by doing that Refer-A-Friend program of AT&T, and you can get $125 a year for that if you find 5 eligible referrals.
What the hell does MANK mean? Is it a misspelling of man? because the exclamation mark is pretty far from k on the keyboard
Put your sim in a different phone go into store or call in and ask to remove the data plan because you are no longer using an iPhone. Bam no more data plan, then unlock your iPhone and use it to your hearts extent, just don't use any data or youre SOL.
Some people have had success with:
Getting the IMEI number from a different phone. Use that phone to call up, and give them the new IMEI number. Ask them to remove the data plan because you switched to a cheepo phone(whichever one it might be).
Or if you only wanna pay $20 and get EDGE, give them a first gen iPhone IMEI.
Getting the IMEI number from a different phone. Use that phone to call up, and give them the new IMEI number. Ask them to remove the data plan because you switched to a cheepo phone(whichever one it might be).
Or if you only wanna pay $20 and get EDGE, give them a first gen iPhone IMEI.
Won't work. AT&T is not stupid. It might work for one billing period, and then try calling back with another story.