06-23-2011, 02:22 AM
Trouble wrote:
[quote=GeneL]Knowing that the unlimited data plan is being canceled, I'm wondering what strategy I could use to get on the current plan, but not lose the ability to buy the new iPhone with the two year contract discount?
Buy a smartphone and get the dataplan with no contract. When the new iPhone is released, buy it with the contract price and move the number over. That may work but I'd double-check with a rep you can trust.
That's what I would do. Actually, it's pretty much what I did right before AT&T gave up the unlimited plans. I went to an AT&T store and got a SIM card and an iPhone voice and unlimited data plan (I had an iPhone 3G I was using on T-Mobile at the time). Had to pay about two months of AT&T service until my T-Mobile contract was up, then I switched to AT&T and got the subsidized pricing on an iPhone 4 and kept the unlimited data. Should work about the same for Verizon, if you get a used smartphone off contract.