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stevenator65 · 04-22-08, 01:44 PM

Thanks for your input, Meadowlark. I spoke to 3 people on the phone. They suggested I go to a store, which sort of ruins the whole "not dealing with a saleman" thing. So the first store wanted me to buy a voice plan for $40 plus the data plan of $19.99. The second store told me I could upgrade my wife's plan for $10 more, which would give her an extra 100 minutes, then I could get the sim card and data plan. The idea being that they can only give me a sim card / data plan to a phone with a phone number. My wife's plan would become a "family plan" so I would have a phone and my minutes would be charged against the plan. I wold get their cheapest phone, remove the sim card and put it in my advantage.

I've done a bit of research and found that the pda plan is $40/mo and smartphone plan is $20/mo. The difference is whether the phone has a qwerty keyboard or not. According to Jdigital, the other difference is whether the ip is static or not, which makes no difference to me.

So long story short, I get the feeling that the $19.99 data plan is only available as an addon to a voice plan. That defeats the purpose of having just a data plan for the advantage.

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stevenator65 Aximsite Hall of Fame Addicted Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6,323 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks for your input, Meadowlark. I spoke to 3 people on the phone. They suggested I go to a store, which sort of ruins the whole "not dealing with a saleman" thing. So the first store wanted me to buy a voice plan for $40 plus the data plan of $19.99. The second store told me I could upgrade my wife's plan for $10 more, which would give her an extra 100 minutes, then I could get the sim card and data plan. The idea being that they can only give me a sim card / data plan to a phone with a phone number. My wife's plan would become a "family plan" so I would have a phone and my minutes would be charged against the plan. I wold get their cheapest phone, remove the sim card and put it in my advantage. I've done a bit of research and found that the pda plan is $40/mo and smartphone plan is $20/mo. The difference is whether the phone has a qwerty keyboard or not. According to Jdigital, the other difference is whether the ip is static or not, which makes no difference to me. So long story short, I get the feeling that the $19.99 data plan is only available as an addon to a voice plan. That defeats the purpose of having just a data plan for the advantage.