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self

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Jul 11, 2008
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Does anyone know if I can buy a no-contract iphone from Ebay or wherever and use it with an existing AT&T family plan? None of them have an iphone. Ideally I'd only pay $9.99/month for voice and somehow disable the internet so it only works when the phone detects wifi... Is this possible?? And if the answer is yes- will it work for both gen1 and gen2, or only gen1?

When I called AT&T they said yes, I can do that. Although they *strongly* recommend I buy a data plan. I guess for my own safety :p

But when I talked with people at different AT&T retails stores, they said it's impossible. When they activate the phone there won't be any option to select no data plan.

Can anyone give a definitive answer??
 
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