Save some bucks – drop the iPhone data plan
By Will Park on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 12:38 PM PST In AT&T, Announcements, Apple, iPhone
If you just can’t justify the extra $20 a month that you’re spending for slow EDGE speeds, there’s good news. You can drop the data plan from your iPhone rate plan and save the $20. Of course, you’ll be paying through the nose for every kilobyte that you download from thereon, but if you’re almost always in range of a WiFi hotspot, this could be a great money-saver. Of course, without the iPhone data plan, you’re Visual Voicemail feature will be as good as dead. Such is the compromise that penny-pinchers must make.
To give hte data-portion of your iPhone’s rate plan, just log into your online account management – AT&T (NYSE: T) myAccount. Find the “Add / Manage Features” section and uncheck the box next to the “IPHONE DATA” option. Oh, and keep in mind that you’ll also lose the free 200 SMS text messages – so you’ll be paying through the nose for SMS text messages if you don’t get an additional text-messaging package.
We’re definitely going to be holding onto our free SMS text messages, Visual Voicemail, and unlimited EDGE data. But, if you need to save up a bit more dough for the possibility of a 3G iPhone next year, an extra $20 savings every month could be a big help.
[Via: TUAW]
This actually no longer works, the website no longer allows people to change their features when they have the iPhone. This was more than likely an error, as Apple takes the majority of the money for this package, from what I’ve heard they get $18 of the $20 that is charged for the data package.