[ale] OT: AT&T data charge

[scott]

if you read your license agreement (EULA?) that you had to sign when
you got the simcard/original phone there is verbiage in there.  It
blows. I think it is wrong. But any non-dumb phone has to have a data
plan.  I had to have an employee show me where it was.  it was burried
in the middle of a paragraph.  Both AT&T and Verizon care about what
phone you have and charges appropriately.  T-Mobile doesnt care but
doesnt allow you to use services you dont pay for (texting is either
paid for OR you pay $0.10@ with t-mobile).  I took my mom's sim car
put it in my google smart phone and it works with no extra charges
except she didnt have any data traffic.  Only phone/SMS.  Once I
switched my card back in it fully worked.

fight it but dont be surprised if they dont buckle.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> They have to generate a signature or a voice recording of your consent
> in order to add that charge. Fight them. Don't try to continue using
> the device. But for the one month where you were uninformed of their
> choice to charge extra for the same service based on the device
> consuming it, don't give in.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:
>> All
>> My daughter recently got a used iPhone and put her AT simcard from her
>> non-smartphone in - kids just gotta have an iPhone, ya know. She only
>> accesses data using wifi and 3G is switched off. This month I get my phone
>> bill and they've added a $30 3G data plan even though she did not use any
>> ATT data. When I queried with AT&T they said I am not permitted to use a
>> smartphone without a data plan, even if I do not access ATT data.
>> Does anyone know about this? Is this even legal? It just seems fraudulent.
>> Is this even worth contesting or do I choose to either pay up or switch back
>> to the old phone?
>> ed
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