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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by easternmonk on Sunday February 03, 2013 @12:03AM (#5158708)
If you turn off the data your phone is as good as a dumb phone it can not use data at all unless you are on a wifi network.
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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by learc83 on Sunday February 03, 2013 @01:17AM (#5158858)
> it can not use data at all unless you are on a wifi network.

Which is >95% of the time for me, and many people.

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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by ctbeiser on Sunday February 03, 2013 @10:42AM (#5159941)
If you turn the data off on say, an iPhone, it's as good as say, an iPod touch with calling capabilities, which is really all a lot of people want.
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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by officemonkey on Sunday February 03, 2013 @11:14AM (#5160027)
I would love a phone that only made cell calls and texts and used wifi for everything else. I suspect most people would too.
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