Originally Posted by
UntilTheNDofTimE
I got the Iphone 4s in October, previous to having that phone i had the Iphone 3gs. My mom has always wanted a iphone but she never wanted to pay $15-30 bucks a month for the data plan on the phone. When i upgraded to my phone i gave her my old 3gs(this phone isnt under contract), and i told her when shes at the house she can use the wifi to get on the internet on the phone.
After about a month ATT hits up my mom and says since your using a Iphone you have to pay for a data plan. This is total horseshit. The phone is being used in a Wi-FI zone only. Since ATT isnt making any money off the phone they say the phone has to have a data plan. They say as long as a sim card from ATT is in a iphone it must have a data plan regardless of if the phone is under contract or not. I tell them this premise is stupid because my mom can just take her sim card out the iphone and put it in her other phone and continue to use the iphone in wifi zones so theirs no difference. So basically what i get from this is after you upgrade a smart phone you might as well throw your old one in the garbage cause you cant even use it anymore without being slapped on another data plan.