"News" <News@Group.name> wrote in message
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>>
>> The only "PDA" (AT&T's website definition, certainly not mine!) with a
>> sub-$30 data plan is the iPhone, which has it's own "iPhone" data plan.
>> All other PDAs, REGARDLESS OF DATA SPEED, are $30 for the data add-on,
>> (or $60 if you want tethering included.)
>>
>> But please- don't take my word for it- go to the AT&T wireless website,
>> stick a Centro in the shopping cart, go to "add services" and try to find
>> us a cheaper "2G PDA data plan," ok?
>>
>
> My hw6515 operates on a $19.99/month unlimited data plan.

I assume you are using MEdia Net rather than a PDA plan, though, correct?
That's a plan for "dumbphones" that isn't really hard to "trick" AT&T into
letting you have. I do the same on T-Mobile, with a $5.99 "WAP" plan
instead of their $20 PDA plan. Like AT&T, T-Mo seems ok with it as long as
you don't call attention to yourself by using "too much" of your unlimited
data.

Arguably, you could use that same $20 plan on a brand-new 3G PDA as well, as
long as you "stay under the radar." HowardForums are full of posters who've
done just that. Usually it involves sticking your SIM in a non-PDA phone,
and then signing up for the unlimited MEdia Net plan, then putting the SIM
in your PDA and conveniently forgetting to tell AT&T you've changed phones.
In your case, you'd probably get away with it even more easily since you
already have the data plan, and could simply buy a 3G model and slip your
SIM in. That's how I did it with T-Mo- I've had the same data plan add-on
for four or five years over three or four phones. When I switched from my
last "dumbphone" to my T-Mobile MDA, I simply moved the SIM to the MDA, and
never changed plans.

I was going to mention some of this in my reply to Ron, but I felt that
"tricking" AT&T into lower priced plans was beyond the scope of the
argument, because it isn't really 2G or 3G related- 3G PDA owners can play
the same tricks as 2G PDA owners do into gaming the system, so, IMO, it's a
moot point.