Data Plan Required

Drew212 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-02-2010, 02:20 AM

I really want to purchase the touch pro 2 but I'm furious to find that it's going to cost me $30 a month for a data plan that is required with verizon's network. I was told that even if I purchase the phone outright I still need to purchase the data plan.

Why make phones with WiFi if the phone is going to be required to have a data plan? I don't use the phone for the web and email unless I'm in a wireless hotspot, so I don't need the freedom of a data plan.

Does anyone know a way around this? Are there any simmilar phones that don't require a data plan?

**nrfitchett4** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-02-2010, 02:23 AM

pretty much all smart phones are requiring data plans these days. the cell phone companies want to get paid same as everyone else. you might have to go with the smaller carriers (like cricket or pocket) to get what you want.

zizo72 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-02-2010, 08:38 AM

switch to sprint!

Rhodium500 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-02-2010, 09:30 AM

Trust me there is absolutely NO way around the required data plan unless you happen to know an executive that can pull strings for you. As soon as the system sees a TP2 esn then it adds the data package on if you want it activated.

iknight8 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Rhodium500

Trust me there is absolutely NO way around the required data plan unless you happen to know an executive that can pull strings for you. As soon as the system sees a TP2 esn then it adds the data package on if you want it activated.

i have sprint and its NOT true at all... any WM phone u can active under any plan whether u have data or not

sprintgirl · #6 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 12:46 AM

u would be crazy not to have a data plan...and if u used data without the plan u would b lookn at outrageous bills... Having a TP2 without data is like flinstoning a porsche. why have amazing capabilities and not use them. say what?!

kimogent · #7 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by sprintgirl

u would be crazy not to have a data plan...and if u used data without the plan u would b lookn at outrageous bills... Having a TP2 without data is like flinstoning a porsche. why have amazing capabilities and not use them. say what?!

lol.......funny and true at the same time

Drew212 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-05-2010, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by sprintgirl

u would be crazy not to have a data plan...and if u used data without the plan u would b lookn at outrageous bills... Having a TP2 without data is like flinstoning a porsche. why have amazing capabilities and not use them. say what?!

I would like someone to please explain these features for me, as I am a software engineer and don't see a single feature that 'requires' a data plan or that isn't reprogrammable to work exclusively with wifi. Features are all software. In the phone, there is not a damn thing in the hardware that requires a data plan, and that's what pisses me off.

**Mojary** · #9 (**permalink**) 03-04-2010, 01:58 AM

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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!

mikewest · #10 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 09:34 PM

that is NOT actually true... I had a data plan on my account, and the system dropped it off my plan. I ended up with $75.00 in data overage....which was corrected. I don't see the point in the phone without a data plan...but the phone WILL activate without one.