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smatrphone without data plan?

Jul 15, 2010 10:40PM PDT

i am on at&t and you have to pay extra to have an iphone or any other smartphone. could i buy one off of ebay and slip my sim card in and it still work without a data plan?

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You will need Data Plan
Jul 19, 2010 2:48AM PDT

No you have to have the Apple Data plan when using a iPhone. The only work around is to unlock the iPhone however you would still have to purchase a Data package.

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(NT) that's actually an AT&T data plan
Jul 19, 2010 4:54AM PDT