gkainz
Final Approach
My wife's flip phone broke, so we stuck her card in an old iphone 4 my son had, disabled the cellular data and she used it as a plane old phone with texting for months. Today, she got an email from AT&T that said because they saw a smart phone at her number, they automatically added a data plan to her number. Doesn't matter that she doesn't use data, never used data, never used anything on the phone that accessed cellular data - her account now gets a $30/month charge for data plan.
I made them reverse it and promised to move the card over to a non-smart phone (still can't find a matching charger for any of them in this mess of old stuff) ... but seriously bent me out of shape with their insistence that "all smart phones REQUIRE a data plan" regardless of usage ... really?
I investigated their shared mobile plan, and the upshot would be I would pay more to share a 2G data plan on 3 devices than I would with 3 devices each having a 3G data plan on their own ... "ok, lemme get this straight - I can pay $30 for 3G x 2 (no, 3 until you change your wife's phone) or I can pay you $135 for a 2G shared plan accessed by 3 smart phones" ... something wrong with this picture!
I made them reverse it and promised to move the card over to a non-smart phone (still can't find a matching charger for any of them in this mess of old stuff) ... but seriously bent me out of shape with their insistence that "all smart phones REQUIRE a data plan" regardless of usage ... really?
I investigated their shared mobile plan, and the upshot would be I would pay more to share a 2G data plan on 3 devices than I would with 3 devices each having a 3G data plan on their own ... "ok, lemme get this straight - I can pay $30 for 3G x 2 (no, 3 until you change your wife's phone) or I can pay you $135 for a 2G shared plan accessed by 3 smart phones" ... something wrong with this picture!