ATT no exchange email plan?

[goingblue]

Forgive me if I have the wrong catagory or if this is common knowledge and I'm just clueless.

I colleage of mine was told today by an ATT store that she was not on a plan that offered, specifically, exchange email. She pay's $30 per month rather than $45 a month. She can get her contacts and calendar but no email...only for exchange?

Is this accurate?

 

[jbrenn]

what phone does she have.

 

[goingblue]

what phone does she have.

3G. Also, at the ATT store they charged her a $20 restocking fee to exchange, under warranty, her bricked phone. It bricked when she did a restore from iTunes. She was told she would have to go to the Apple store to avoid the fee.

 

[Primejimbo]

EDIT: I miss understood

 

[StoneColdSober]

There is no exchange plan for the iPhone and there doesn't need to be. I have 12 users in my office using iPhones with an exchange server and all of them are on the $30/month data plan. The $45/month plan isn't needed for any phone that is exchange capable (they tell you otherwise but they are wrong, I have done it).

Something is obviously set up wrong on your friend's iPhone.

 

[Excellerator]

I am using the Microsoft Exchange with Google Calendars and I only have the $30 plan. So I don't think the $45 is needed.

 

[vinay427]

I am using the Microsoft Exchange with Google Calendars and I only have the $30 plan. So I don't think the $45 is needed.

Yep same. I use Google Sync to sync my Google Contacts and Calendar to my iPhone via Exchange with the $30/month plan. I heard that too in the Keynote last July or whenever but I must have misunderstood.

 

[micsaund]

A friend of mine, who got his 3G before I did, also gut suckered into that "you've got to pay an extra $15/mo for Exchange" con-job.

I got my phone with the normal $70/mo plan, and I am able to sync with work's Exchange just fine.

Maybe the $15/mo means that AT&T hosts Exchange for you or something? I wouldn't put it past them to just blatantly rip-off people for an extra $15/mo for absolutely nothing, but there is a shred of optomist inside me who wants to believe that you actually get something for that extra money if you do pay it. But what, I have no clue...