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Originally Posted by iknight8
i have sprint and its NOT true at all... any WM phone u can active under any plan whether u have data or not  |
in a perfect world and in all essence, what you said is true. but we dont live in a perfect world. sadly in our world, any WM (or droid for that matter) is being treated as a cash cow by the carriers. everybody's seen how the carriers require you their data plan to get these phones...but essentially, to make it work for its main purpose, all that is needed is just a regular voice plan.
just like less than 10 years ago...same thing happened with text messaging. as long as you added text messaging to your plan, you can text anyone anywhere in the galaxy and it was still part of your messaging bucket. but the carriers got smart and figured out that there were a big percentage that text internationally. so they started charging for international text outside of your messaging plan. and when they figured out that people want to connect to the internet using their smartphones, instead of letting us upgrade/buy a smartphone/ppc and leaving it up to us to get the option of having data plan with it, the light bulb once again came on. and the rest as we say is history!