j5tar
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Let say I unlocked my 3G iPhone, do I still have to pay the additional $30 a month for the data plan in order for the phone to work or can I just use my regular phone plan $35 a month?
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daihard
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Unlocked or not, your iPhone will not work without a carrier. It means you will have to sign up for a plan, if not with Rogers. If your "regular phone plan" does not include data, then I don't see why the carrier would not charge you for however much data you've transferred via your iPhone on top of the $35 fee.j5tar said:
j5tar
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I am already paying my regular phone plan for $35 a month with no data plan with Rogers. But what I am asking is if the "data plan" people are paying for $30 is necessary if I get the 3G iPhone unlocked. I can just put my sim card in and it will still work right? I don't plan on using internet, just a regular phone + iPod touch features. Since I just bought a 16GB iPod touch, I am thinking of returning it and swapping it for a iPhone by buying it for $200 + $400 cancellation fee = $600.
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The data plan is not necessary whether your iPhone is unlocked or not, and unless you're completely against the idea of a three-year contract, I wouldn't even worry too much about cancelling.
You can get the iPhone 3G from Rogers for the subsidized price without a data plan as long as your voice plan is over $30, which in your case it is, and you're eligible for a hardware upgrade (ie, ahven't gotten a new phone in the last 12 months). Note that the $199/$299 pricing is the best possible pricing, and many discovered that their pricing was not nearly as good as that for various reasons, so you may want to check into that before you make a decision.
They'll try to tell you that you should get a voice plan, but it's really not necessary to do so. In that case, they will make you sign a waiver acknowledging that you refused the data plan and will instead pay $0.05/kb ($50/MB
) for any data that you happen to use.
Further, I don't think that Rogers unlocks your iPhone just because you cancel your contract, and at this point there are no other unlocking solutions for the iPhone 3G... It has only been jailbroken so far and not unlocked.
The only benefit to cancelling your contract right away is that you would get out of the three-year obligation, but then again you can do that at any time anyway.
If you are going to opt-out of data, however, you should take steps to turn OFF data on your iPhone so you're not accidentally charged for it. Jailbreaking your iPhone will provide options to do this, or alternatively you can use Apple's own iPhone Configuration Utility to reset your data configuration (APN) to an invalid value so that the iPhone can't "log on" to the Rogers data network.
You can get the iPhone 3G from Rogers for the subsidized price without a data plan as long as your voice plan is over $30, which in your case it is, and you're eligible for a hardware upgrade (ie, ahven't gotten a new phone in the last 12 months). Note that the $199/$299 pricing is the best possible pricing, and many discovered that their pricing was not nearly as good as that for various reasons, so you may want to check into that before you make a decision.
They'll try to tell you that you should get a voice plan, but it's really not necessary to do so. In that case, they will make you sign a waiver acknowledging that you refused the data plan and will instead pay $0.05/kb ($50/MB
) for any data that you happen to use.Further, I don't think that Rogers unlocks your iPhone just because you cancel your contract, and at this point there are no other unlocking solutions for the iPhone 3G... It has only been jailbroken so far and not unlocked.
The only benefit to cancelling your contract right away is that you would get out of the three-year obligation, but then again you can do that at any time anyway.
If you are going to opt-out of data, however, you should take steps to turn OFF data on your iPhone so you're not accidentally charged for it. Jailbreaking your iPhone will provide options to do this, or alternatively you can use Apple's own iPhone Configuration Utility to reset your data configuration (APN) to an invalid value so that the iPhone can't "log on" to the Rogers data network.