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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by gcb0 on Sunday February 03, 2013 @01:29AM (#5158888)
Reading that i think that the worst offender is the iphone that keeps phoning home. Not that at&t is not wrong as well. just that the iphone manges to screw the user even more.

if apple hadn't bent over so badly to allow telcos to screw the customers with the whole tethering fiasco (which is still going on. unbelievable. all you sheeple giving out free money) they wouldn't even know you had a special needs phone.

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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by X-Istence on Sunday February 03, 2013 @03:05AM (#5159041)
If you turn off data on the iPhone it does no phoning home.

If it did phone home when data is turned off explicitly then I'd have been completely and utterly screwed by AT&T for the month I spent in Europe.

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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by gcb0 on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:55PM (#5193974)
right... doesn't that void the purpose of having a smart phone to begin with?

what if i need to use data and plan to control how much i use? As i did on all my travels for the first day or two until i could secure a local SIM card.

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Re:AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-C... by bestham on Sunday February 03, 2013 @02:57AM (#5159026)
Well, the phone does not phone home per se but AT&T analyses the IMEI number. In Sweden if you try to use data without a balance it simply does not work. What AT&T is doing is simply wrong, throwing services down OPs throat.
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