Hi Ryan, Raul and Christopher, As Raul pointed out, they force you to take a data plan if you are on contract, but nobody says you can't go out and either buy a used older phone or to go and pay $850 and pay full price for an unlocked iPhone 4S 64 Gig if you want. In fact, if you have an old iPhone 3GS and upgraded to a 4S, you can officially unlock your iPhone 3GS, just call AT&T and they will email you the instructions. Once it is unlocked, you could even put an AT&T prepaid Go Card in it, of course data won't work on the phone, but you can definitely use it as just an accessible cell phone for making voice calls, sending text messages and do whatever you like when you are on WiFi. When I bought my first iPhone 4 here in Canada my contract had run out and I decided to not get another one so I bought an unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple, put in a SIM and activated it with just a regular cell plan without any data. I did turn cellular data off in order to avoid accidently using it and being charged by the Megabyte or whatever ridiculous small unit they use, but nobody can force you to have a data plan if you don't take advantage of a contract to get the phone cheap. After all, AT&T does give you a $550 subsidy on a 64 Gig iPhone 4S and over 2 years that means just under $23 a months so I guess that's why they force you to buy a $25 data plan (or more). I sure wish the North American providers (Canada as well as the US) would smarten up and offer more flexible prepaid plans so that anybody who wants could buy an iPhone or other fancy smartphone even if they only use it a bit. I, only use maybe 100 to 300 Megs of data a months and maybe a bit more if I am travelling more, but why should I pay for 1 or 2 Meg of data if I never use them. On the other hand my iPhone is also my main home phone and I have a business so I do make quite a lot of voice calls. Fortunately we have Koodo in Canada and for $55 a month I get unlimited Canada wide long distance and air time as well as voice mail, call display and unlimited texting (it is actually $45 for the calling and $10 for the VM, call display and texting). Then I pay $5 a months for 30 Meg of data, that I pay whether I use any data or not. If I am over 30 Meg and below 100 Meg I pay $10, 101 to 300 Meg it is $15 and 301 to 500 is it $20. Between 501 and 1 Gig it is $25 and if you frequently use that much you can go with a $25 flat rate and get 2 Gig for that. I mostly have $10 or $15 data charges on top of my $55, so $65 or $70 and I can make a call anytime I want and never have to worry about paying extra for it. I thought I share this for those other Canadians out there who are with Telus, Bell or Rogers. Kooodo is actually owned by Telus anyways, but it still is a lot cheaper especially if you make a lot of phone calls and since it uses the exact same network there is no drawback regarding reception.
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