I was told that I could buy a Samsung smart phone at AT&T. I must activate a data plan to get the 100 dollar rebate. After getting the rebate, I was told I could cancel the data plan and still have a phone that would connect to the internet via WiFi. Is this true information, or is the data plan really required for 2 years as well? This will be the only data phone under a family plan, if that makes any difference.
When my SO and I were shopping for her Blackberry, a telecom company offered a $150 handset discount if she maintained a data plan for a year. She jumped at the offer of course because she wanted the data plan. I’d imagine if you tried the trick they wouldn’t let you cancel the data plan, or wouldn’t send you the rebate. You don’t often find loop holes that size in their offers.
I sell AT&T phones any my general understanding is that for smartphones, the 2-year agreement discount price is for smartphone-type service, i.e data plan. The new rate brochures actually list smartphone rate plans on a separate page. Not sure about your ability to remove it after getting it, but I’d definitely get in in writing from a company store manager (not an independent). Not so, by the way, with Iphone: contracts for these phones state that you must be on a data plan even after your contract ends and AT&T will neither sell you service without a data plan nor unlock the phone so someone else can. They furthermore state that if you are ever found, by some strange twist of fate, not to have a data phan on your Iphone, they can put one back on without asking you. IANAL, I don’t speak for AT&T. YMMV
Id say first check and see if that sammy actually has a wifi radio.
as for the rest
Ya it sorta sounds like Rogers , my provider. The actual phone service is separate from the data plan, so I pay 20 for the voice and 30 for the data and as well as the taxes , SAF and who knows what else.
Supposedly you can do an early cancelation of the data and retain the voice, depending on how your contract is written and there usually is a fee for an ECF, in my case if would be a hundred bucks for canceling the data at any time.
Check your contract carefully
Declan