Data plan on ATT gophone (unlocked iphone 4)

[masciam]

Hi,
I'll be on the US for a month and was planning on buying a prepaid ATT sim card to use on my factory unlocked iphone 4 for voice/data.

In the ATT gophone website they say you can buy a data plan to use on your smartphone, so I though it'd be ok, but several sources say that data won't work on iphones.

People say that as a workaround you can activate data on a different smartphone and then insert the simcard in the iphone, but I also read ATT can block data if they detect that it is an iphone IMEI.

Has anyone ever tried this? Will they really block data?

Thanks!

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Prepaid data ATT plans works just fine on any iPhone model. Know a couple of people who have gotten the $50 unlimited plan that also includes unlimited data. This is available when you purchase a cheap GoPhone dumbphone.

Now the thing is ........ I'm not sure what happens if or when ATT detects that your using a dumbphone plan with a smartphone. So far I haven't heard anything from my friends who use it, works fine for them and they use it a lot, but it's still risky IMO.

I'll say give it a try but I wouldn't even think about being a data hog or tethering.

 

[ucantgetridofme]

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