So will there soon be month-to-month iPhone service offered?

[Psurfer]

Seems only fair (except to those still paying their current 2yr contracts).

[jdc]

HAHAHHAHHHAAHHHHAAAAA!

Best joke eva!

[pinion]

For the iPad there is supposed to be one. For the iPhone? Well, once the contract is up it's month to month right? Until you quit paying a month. Then you're signing up for a new deal.

[Gareth]

If there was (and I doubt there will be), you'd be paying full price for the iPhone. Who's going to pony up $500-$700+ for the unsubsidized phone nowadays?

[Winston]

I just had a series of arguments with various people in the AT&T president's office about this. My son wanted to use my wife's old iPhone without a data plan. We wanted to get data blocked to the phone. AT&T swore that they would never allow this, and that all "smart" phones had to have a data plan. (Never mind that he had an old SIM card which would not support data on an iPhone 3G.)

AT&T is not consistent on this, as they will block data on "ordinary" phones, some of which have smart features.

AT&T is requiring a data plan because of all the headaches they've had with people using data on phones and running up multi-thousand dollar bills in one month. Bad PR and very angry customers. Since smart phones which use push email gobble data, I think they have tried to head this off.

But they haven't really thought it through. If a customer wants to use a smart phone without mobile data, go ahead and let them. There won't be a lot of people who bother, and I think the PR value of giving customers the option would outweigh the revenue from people you force to use a data plan and the anger from those who give up because they won't pay for one. Having an automated way to do a daily plan might even be profitable, beyond the PR value.


Good luck.

- Winston

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