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Camelot One Premium,MVM join:2001-11-21 Austin, TX kudos:1	reply to tomz17 Re: Verizon is killing what (little) value for money there is said by tomz17: except that carriers have wised up to this. Verizon will require a data plan for any smartphone (they know which ones are smart phones based on ESN). There is no "I will use only wifi, and pay for my 3g data a-la carte option" Even AT&T now supposedly uses the IMEI to FORCE data plans onto customers! This is the part the really pisses me off. Subsidized phones (where they give you a discount for signing a contract) requiring a data plan if its a smart phone, ok. It's just their way of guaranteeing a return on the discount. Still a bit of a scam, but I'm ok with it. But if I bring a paid-in-full phone in for activation, they STILL force a data plan when I don't want/need one. That to me is a matter the FCC needs to take up. Though as proven with the phantom data fee, the FCC is toothless. -- Intel Q6600 @3400Mhz/GA-EP35-DS3P/4x 2048Mb G.Skill/WD Raptor 300Gb/3x WD20EADS 2TB/2x PNY GTX 260/Silverstone 850W/Custom water cooler
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jonnyz Premium join:2003-03-20 Canfield, OH Reviews: ·Armstrong Zoom ..	You can still get around this with ATT in contract or on Pay As You Go (I have done both): 1. Bring an old $20 unlocked GSM non-smartphone to them, get a contract with non-smartphone data, and swap the SIM into your unlocked GSM smartphone of choice. 2. Buy a GoPhone plan with the crappiest phone possible and swap the SIM into your GSM smartphone of choice. And I highly doubt they come after users via IMEI for data plans. My Nokia E51 has never needed a data package - I use WiFi for all my data - not to mention the IMEI changes during unlocking in many GSM phones. -- Join the RC5 team.
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