Comments on: All AT&T Smartphone Users to Require Data Plans http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/08/21/all-att-smartphone-users-to-require-data-plans/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aviral Sharma http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/08/21/all-att-smartphone-users-to-require-data-plans/#comment-1806 Aviral Sharma Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:39:02 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=65816#comment-1806 VERY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!! MUST READ DO NOT add an IMEI of your smartphone even if you had it for past 2000 years. They will simply claim that you ADDED A SMARTPHONE after 6th Sept, 2009 and hence you will need a data plan. (I had Nokia N95 for past 8months and today they ask me for the IMEI, hence a data plan for rest of the contract) LOOPHOLE (workaround) :If you are caught in their crap, just add an IMEI of non-smart phone, remove the data plan and start using the smartphone again. Quote from att.com/smartphoneplans: "If you purchased a smartphone prior to September 6, 2009 and are using data on a pay per use basis, you will not be required to add a data plan at this time." They don't care about purchase date since you ADDED the IMEI after 6th Sept. VERY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!! MUST READ

DO NOT add an IMEI of your smartphone even if you had it for past 2000 years. They will simply claim that you ADDED A SMARTPHONE after 6th Sept, 2009 and hence you will need a data plan.
(I had Nokia N95 for past 8months and today they ask me for the IMEI, hence a data plan for rest of the contract)

LOOPHOLE (workaround) :If you are caught in their crap, just add an IMEI of non-smart phone, remove the data plan and start using the smartphone again.

Quote from att.com/smartphoneplans: "If you purchased a smartphone prior to September 6, 2009 and are using data on a pay per use basis, you will not be required to add a data plan at this time."

They don't care about purchase date since you ADDED the IMEI after 6th Sept.

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