XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: harold@example.com   
      
   On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:51:56 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   >> The VP at AT&T kept giving me that "consistent bill" bullshit where I had   
   >> to constantly remind her that the phone line had a *data block* so it's   
   >> impossible to use data.   
   >   
   > that doesn't matter.   
      
   It's rare that you say a truthful statement that even you believe, but you   
   are correct that, to AT&T, it didn't matter one bit that I had a data block   
   on the line. If the SIM was to be put into anything that they arbitrarily   
   listed as a 'smart phone', then it *had* to have data.   
      
   > at&t's smartphone plans require data.   
      
   The service already existed and it had a data block.   
      
   The blackberry was grandfathered, but if I replaced the blackberry with   
   another phone, and if that other phone was on an arbitrary list of phones   
   that AT&T deemed to be a "smart" phone (at that time, not all phones were),   
   then even with the data block, they said they would charge the high data   
   plan.   
      
   > you were trying to scam them by using a smartphone on a non-smartphone   
   > plan and you got caught.   
      
   As usual, you think everyone thinks like you think.   
   I wasn't scamming anyone.   
   I was *asking* them how their system worked.   
      
   I didn't even *own* a smart phone at that time.   
   It was my first smart phone that I was considering buying.   
      
   And I didn't want data.   
      
   As usual, you think everyone thinks the devious way your brain works.   
      
   It's incomprehensible to you that someone would simply *ask* AT&T how their   
   plan works.   
      
   > if you don't like their plans, find another provider.   
      
   Worked for me!   
   You haven't heard me say anything bad about T-Mobile have you?   
      
   Well, they did charge an extra $50 for the phones I bought from them on   
   zero-percent interest for two years - but that's really just interest.   
      
   T-Mobile even gave me *two* different cellular extendors, one a femtotower   
   and the other a repeater - which I can't complain about - because they saw   
   how big the house was in their GPS maps.   
      
   T-Mobile gives me free SIM cards all the time (I've *never* had to pay for   
   a SIM card ever from them), and T-Mobile gives me free data on all my iOS   
   devices (not much - but enough to use when I need it).   
      
   The best thing I did was get off Verizon, and then the best thing I did   
   after that was get off of AT&T. I'm happy with T-Mobile, where, trust me,   
   if I wasn't happy - I'd be complaining to you how bad they are.   
      
   But they're the best of the three IMHO, although I didn't have all three at   
   the same time, so I went from analog razrs to Kyocera's on Verizon, to   
   Blackberrys and razrs on AT&T to a variety of iOS and Android "smart"   
   phones on T-mobile.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)