On Dec 14, 2010, at Dec 14, 10:44 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: On 10-12-14 08:36 AM, Alden, David wrote:
On Dec 14, 2010, at Dec 14, 10:18 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: On 10-12-14 07:38 AM, John BORIS wrote: If not, I am not sure how the following applies, but if you are, I think you should keep smartphones into the equation, but don't look at prices from phone companies, check the prices from manufacturers and from the companies in China shipping directly. If you buy your phone out right, it is YOUR phone, and you can use it on any GSM network, you just put the sim card in it and start using it. You do not have to pay for a data plan if you don't want one. Have you tried this? I have and AT&T "caught" me after about a month and told me that they require dataplans on ALL smartphones - whether they were purchased from AT&T or not (they told me that if I wanted to stop the dataplan, they would block my usage of that phone). They claim that all of the cell phone companies now have that policy. So far this has been true on 2 iPhone 3's - however, they seem to allow me to use our older (non-3G) iphone's without insisting on a dataplan. Yes, I have been using Android phones on the Roger network in Canada with normal voice plans for nearly two years. Did you check what your contract says? Even if it is in the contract, I wonder how legal this is. Are there other GSM providers in the US? Yes - according to their "Wireless Customer Agreement" it is required. Here's an excerpt: http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/legal/index.jsp?q_termsKey=wirelessCustomerAgreement&q_termsName=Wireless+Customer+Agreement&subSection=whatAreVoiceDataPlanReq I believe T-Mobile is the only other GSM provider in the US, but I don't know if they require a data plan or not. ...dave
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