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AT&T found wife's JB/unlocked 3G and added a data plan?

You can call AT&T and have them block the data on the phone. My mom has done it for almost every smart phone she has owned because of Wi-Fi being available everywhere she is.

She has the iPhone 3GS w/ no data plan since release last year.
 
jacobsen1 said:
anyway around this?

I got an iP4.
I jailbroke and unlocked my 3G
I installed SBsettings and turned off Data, 3g and edge.
I called AT&T and made sure all data was turned off on her accound.

She's been using and loving the 3G for the last month. Today she gets a text that they know it's an iPhone and that it "needs" a data plan and that they've added it for her. We're on a family plan with my parents, my dad and mom did the same thing with his 3G and my mom's has the same message.

Is there any way around this? Technically the phones are "out of contract" so WTF? I guess we could sell them and get the girls BBs or something else nice with the money that you can get w/o the mandatory data?
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So there has been no data used at all? Does your usage show data ?
 
Warbrain said:
You agree to a contract regardless of whether or not you originally bought a smartphone and I bet that is in the language of every contract from at&t.
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It's ironic how your sig talks about the death of common sense and that's exactly what your post is. "well it's a contract and therefore everything said goes, DUH..." :eek:
 
Ryeno said:
It's ironic how your sig talks about the death of common sense and that's exactly what your post is. "well it's a contract and therefore everything said goes, DUH..." :eek:
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um how is that ironic at all? if anything it is ironic that you don't understand the quote in his sig...
 
Since you dont want data anyway, there is a web site that will help you change your phones APN so it looks like a different type of phone to ATT. Just change your settings to that of a dumb phone and motor on :)

You will have to find the link I just dont have time right now.
 
I have an excellent suggestion OP:

If you don't wanna pay for data, don't get a smart phone!
 
mantan said:
No it's really not a good point. If one of AT&T's requirements for using a smartphone on their network is a having data plan.....then trying to circumvent it is theft.

I love how people is on this board will grab their torches and pitchforks about their rights as customers, yet try to help people circumvent their responsibilities as consumers. You're using a device on AT&T's network...like them or not, you have to play by their rules.

Pay the $15 and call it a day....chances are she'd probably enjoy using it more with the data service anyway....
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Pbbbt, haven't you heard the latest morality trend? Its not theft unless it involves stealing from children or the elderly. Anything else is considered "creative financing."
 
Buy her an iPhone 4 for $300 and go ahead and sign up for the $15 a month data plan.

Sell the iPhone 4 for $700. You just made $400 profit. Use $360 of that to pay for the additional cost of having the data plan for the next 2 years. Use the Extra $40 to got out to dinner and movie.

Problem Solved and she has 200mb of data she can use per month.
 
Wow so many people up on their thrones on this one. My wife is in the same situation. We purchased 3g's back when they were released. We have been paying on them until the iPad release. At that point she got a 3G iPad and pays for the data on that. She purchased a Pantech Somethingorothercrapphone. She tried to use the Pantech and was just not happy. As a result, she decided to pop her SIM into the old 3G and has been using that without data. A big reason for the data fee is to cover the subsidy that they place on the iPhone. Since we had paid on it for 2 years we had more than covered that and we are not using the data on the new one.

You know what, I am just going to stop here because when it is all said and done someone will just jump back on the bandwagon of how terrible this is and how it is just stealing and blah blah blah, then get called for dinner by mommy who is paying the bill anyway. So peace be unto all and to all a good night.
 
jacobsen1 said:
interesting point. We got our AT&T account in feb of 2009. So we're a bit over 18 months in. I wonder if they'll let us switch those 2 lines over to prepaid? The other idea I had was switching the lines to another company with SIMs (ie not verizon) and using them there... But I'm not sure if they'll have an early termination fee for those lines before feb 2011?
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Whatever you do, don't tell AT&T you are going to use the prepaid account on an iPhone. Prepaid is not authorized on iPhones but you can still do it.
 
tjmrpm04 said:
You know what, I am just going to stop here because when it is all said and done someone will just jump back on the bandwagon of how terrible this is and how it is just stealing and blah blah blah, then get called for dinner by mommy who is paying the bill anyway. So peace be unto all and to all a good night.
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I just paid my water bill for this month. I need more water that you do because I've got a pool and you don't. I'm going to just run my hose over to your house and use your spigot. Same water source so nobody gets hurt, right? As long as both of us end up paying about the same amount, which you will once I'm done running up your meter filling my pool, its all good. Amirite?
 
tjmrpm04 said:
Wow so many people up on their thrones on this one. My wife is in the same situation. We purchased 3g's back when they were released. We have been paying on them until the iPad release. At that point she got a 3G iPad and pays for the data on that. She purchased a Pantech Somethingorothercrapphone. She tried to use the Pantech and was just not happy. As a result, she decided to pop her SIM into the old 3G and has been using that without data. A big reason for the data fee is to cover the subsidy that they place on the iPhone. Since we had paid on it for 2 years we had more than covered that and we are not using the data on the new one.

You know what, I am just going to stop here because when it is all said and done someone will just jump back on the bandwagon of how terrible this is and how it is just stealing and blah blah blah, then get called for dinner by mommy who is paying the bill anyway. So peace be unto all and to all a good night.
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tell me about it. the way some of these people act you would think they are share holders in AT&T.

I think it is afwul that they force you into a data plan on a phone that is out of contract. if I wanna use an old BB that I bought off ebay I should b able to without having to pay data. If i turn data off completely I should be able to use that phone like any other.
 
jacobsen1 said:
not true. When we first got AT&T I had a BB bold specifically because it DID NOT NEED a data plan and it had WiFi.
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I wish that was still the case. Sure, if you one with the discount and a contract I can see them requiring the data plan.

If you got one full price, I think it sucks they force you to have a data plan. Just my $0.02.
 
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