[ale] Moving my Wife/Kids phones into the 20th Century

[Neal Rhodes]

Or, I can go to Ting.com, buy from them a used Samsung Transform Ultra
(Android 2.3) 1Ghz for $76, and a 100m/100texts/100mb plan for about
$17/mo with no contract. 

And I can expect that their phone will actually work.    Meaning they
will support what she'd doing.    Granted, it's on sprint's network, so
it's not REALLY unlocked, is it.  But compared to a "free" phone from
Verizon with a mandatory $30/mo data plan that turns positive in 6
months. 

Neal Rhodes



On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:55 +0000, Mike Harrison wrote:

> > Does anyone know of a carrier that will sell an android smartphone WITHOUT a data plan?
> 
> You can BUY a smartphone.. unlocked, from many sources. Best Buy for 
> example.. Amazon.com..
> 
> Most carriers want that plan.. they are carriers. ;)
> 
> I bought my Samsung Note II from T-Mobile, cash.
> After the return period (45 or 60 days, I forgot)
> they nicely emailed me an unlock code.  No plan was required.
> 
> I do use and like their prepaid service in urban USA areas.
> But I was just in the Philippines and for 550 PHP (Pisos)
> got a local sim and minutes (no data), That's $13.00 for a Sim,
> Phone# and minutes/text capabilities. As I needed to test the local
> SMS gateway system we were installing, I needed a true local number
> and SMS capabilities. WiFi worked great for data..
> 
> The difference is, buying from a carrier with their "less than full price"
> requires a data plan because that's what subsidizes the cheaper price.
> 
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