MattKilla
11-03-2008, 12:57 PM
Prologue:
Before I got my G1, I had a BlackBerry Pearl with unlimited data/SMS. When I pre-ordered my G1, I selected the $35/mo. plan. When my phone came on the 22nd, everything worked fine.. until 2 days ago.
Dateline: a few days ago..
My network data dropped, suddenly. No big deal, I thought, since I rarely use it due to having Wi-Fi at home.
After 2 days, and it didn't pick back up, I gave customer service a call. According to THEM, I did -not- have a data plan, and only the 1,000 minutes on my account. My BlackBerry data expired, and they never rolled me into the $35/mo. data plan. I asked them if I could just continue on without a data plan, but they said G1's had to be activated with a data plan.. to which, I questioned how mine was functioning, and had been functioning without a G1 data plan =) Of course, they could come up with no good reason how this was happening, like a data plan is some magic key of unlocking the phone to be used.
Well, I need data on the go, sometimes, and since I couldn't get away with it, I went ahead with $35/mo. plan. I'm sure if I would have argued enough, I could have gone without a data plan.
Before I got my G1, I had a BlackBerry Pearl with unlimited data/SMS. When I pre-ordered my G1, I selected the $35/mo. plan. When my phone came on the 22nd, everything worked fine.. until 2 days ago.
Dateline: a few days ago..
My network data dropped, suddenly. No big deal, I thought, since I rarely use it due to having Wi-Fi at home.
After 2 days, and it didn't pick back up, I gave customer service a call. According to THEM, I did -not- have a data plan, and only the 1,000 minutes on my account. My BlackBerry data expired, and they never rolled me into the $35/mo. data plan. I asked them if I could just continue on without a data plan, but they said G1's had to be activated with a data plan.. to which, I questioned how mine was functioning, and had been functioning without a G1 data plan =) Of course, they could come up with no good reason how this was happening, like a data plan is some magic key of unlocking the phone to be used.
Well, I need data on the go, sometimes, and since I couldn't get away with it, I went ahead with $35/mo. plan. I'm sure if I would have argued enough, I could have gone without a data plan.