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Anybody else gotten their data plans upgraded by AT&T?

I two texts from AT&T telling me they upgraded my data plan "as a courtesy" as was previously reported on by Engadget. I have been swapping out my SIM card and placing it in my old K790a and changing the data plan back to the $10 per month one. However AT&T keeps changing it back a day or two later.
What I'm interested to find out is if I make the switch just before the billing cycle ends, and it sticks through to the next one, will I be charged 10 bucks or not.

you should switch to tmobile they are cheaper and they dont change your plan on you.

josefcrist said:
you should switch to tmobile they are cheaper and they dont change your plan on you.
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true.. but you won't ever get 3g on ur expo if you do that :/
and yes.. they finally got my plan upgraded on me too! bastards! i had it cheap for soooooooooo very long.. i guess it's sorta fair.. but the fact that they sent me the text at 4:48 in the AM was very uncool. And prompted me to call and ***** out customer service lol

I haven't gotten "upgraded". I'm still on $15 MediaNet.

jlczl said:
I haven't gotten "upgraded". I'm still on $15 MediaNet.
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i hate u

Yup. I hate you too.

Nexus One for 279

google website isnt letting me order the nexus at the tmobile 279 plan. i am FULLY eligible for the upgrade pricing (ive confirmed with over 5 tmobile reps)...does anybody have a soultion?!!

gamefan231 said:
google website isnt letting me order the nexus at the tmobile 279 plan. i am FULLY eligible for the upgrade pricing (ive confirmed with over 5 tmobile reps)...does anybody have a soultion?!!
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Call Google.

uansari1 said:
Call Google.
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i did and they told me to email the support ppl and they replied me back but i didnt get any useful information...

Do you currently have a corporate/student discount on your plan? If so, call T-mobile and tell them to take it off. Then order your phone and when you get it and are switched to the EM 500 plan, call back and have them add it back on.
If this doesn't apply to you, maybe you have an Android phone already. Call T-mobile and tell them you take your data plan off. That may also work after Google's servers sync with T-mo.

uansari1 said:
Do you currently have a corporate/student discount on your plan? If so, call T-mobile and tell them to take it off. Then order your phone and when you get it and are switched to the EM 500 plan, call back and have them add it back on.
If this doesn't apply to you, maybe you have an Android phone already. Call T-mobile and tell them you take your data plan off. That may also work after Google's servers sync with T-mo.
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i took the corporate plan off and i have the 500 plan...are there any other things i can do?

gamefan231 said:
i took the corporate plan off and i have the 500 plan...are there any other things i can do?
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That was all I needed to do... after a half an hour or so you should be able to order off the site.

Looks like the at&t $15 Data for N1s is over...

I just got an email this morning on about the $15 data plan for my at&t banded Nexus One. Seems as though they finally got their hands on the batch of IMEI numbers for the at&t N1s. Be forewarned, you may want to grandfather your unlimited data now for $30 then deal with the new plans in light of this.

I feel sorry for att users since switching to t-mo is out of the question (3g)

britoso said:
I feel sorry for att users since switching to t-mo is out of the question (3g)
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I feel sorry for T-mobile users in my area - no 3g.
I am fine on AT&T - I don't use that much data.

Same here. They still don't list my phone on the website though. Oh well, at least I can tether without additional charges with my N1

No email here yet, although I'm on the $30 unlimited text and data, and I still have a generic dumbphone listed as my phone.

URPREY said:
Same here. They still don't list my phone on the website though. Oh well, at least I can tether without additional charges with my N1
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Yep. I've got the $30.00 plan, and I can keep it. Or if I want I can switch our data (2 lines) to the $25.00 plan and save $10.00 a month.
I don't have a problem.

attn1 said:
I feel sorry for T-mobile users in my area - no 3g.
I am fine on AT&T - I don't use that much data.
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Hartford, CT has T-Mobile 3G. That's not what he was talking about anyway.

Yeah, I don't have a real big problem with it. At least I'll be grandfathered in with "unlimited" data before there swtich (you would think they would wait till after the 7th), so that is the silver lining to all this. A few days ago, I found the way to download PDANet by pulling my SIM card, connecting to Wifi, and then downloading it, so tethering hear I come.
(I still run stock only because I'm a while weary of voiding the warranty. Plus now I'm waiting for the OTA FroYo anyway, so I'll wait on any potential rooting for a little while).
...and I live near Hartford, so T-Mobile is always a possiblity in the future. Verizon has the "best" coverage, and Sprint has the best bang-for-your-buck plans (plus the Evo 4G tomorrow), but I've always been reluctant to join a CDMA network over a GSM one. Although at&t has been pi$$ing me off lately with their executive decisions (tethering, lack of the android commitment that they said by first half year, the iPhone and Steve Jobs love-making relationship, now the data plan switch). They need to get with it. *gets off soap box*

No email here either. I'm a Premier customer with a family plan so my data is only $10/month for unlimited. This would be a real bummer so I guess I can only hope that the roll-out is slow...

GarJones27 said:
No email here either. I'm a Premier customer with a family plan so my data is only $10/month for unlimited. This would be a real bummer so I guess I can only hope that the roll-out is slow...
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I'm a Premier customer also with a family plan and had the $10 data plan. Your time is coming

Yeah I got the dreaded "for your convenience" email too. I had been on the $15 plan for 3 months. Oh well it was nice while it lasted.

woke up to find the email and text message. damn you ATT, damn you to hell.

Just got the dreaded text this morning. I went to my local AT&T store just to double check seeing as how I was in the area, and the rep there said I had the $30/month plan, which included NO messaging.
Looks like I'm going to have to have to call AT&T...jerks.

Cant wait till i get my new phone in two weeks. In the mean time ill use my x1 or x10 for a few days on the 15 dollar media net. When the new comes in ill just swap.

yup, just woke up to those 2 text messages. I don't mind paying the full 30$ for unlimited data though as long as I got 3g. T-mobile is out of the question due to their spotty service in my area and I get a discount on ATT anyway.

I was also on the 15 dollar plan. Got bumped seemingly overnight.
Just got off the phone with two different reps at ATT. They changed me to the 30 dollar plan because my phone was included in a sweep and was identified as a HTC Nexus One
They switched me to the 30 dollar unlimited data plan for smart phone users, and that was that. They told me that for 3 months, they included a foot note on my bill that said that I needed to switch, which had I called in and mentioned this during this time, I could have gotten out without an ETF...but guess what. Today was my 3 months, and I have now forfeit that right? At least, so says my ATT rep...

So question .... when i get my new phone in two weeks ... if i get hit with the sweep will i be on the unlimited data for 30 or some dodgy plan.

BuddyLee said:
So question .... when i get my new phone in two weeks ... if i get hit with the sweep will i be on the unlimited data for 30 or some dodgy plan.
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My rep kept saying that the new plans (the 15 and 25 dollar tiered pricing, NO unlimited) go into effect on june 7th, so I think you have until then...

strongergodzilla said:
I was also on the 15 dollar plan. Got bumped seemingly overnight.
Just got off the phone with two different reps at ATT. They changed me to the 30 dollar plan because my phone was included in a sweep and was identified as a HTC Nexus One
They switched me to the 30 dollar unlimited data plan for smart phone users, and that was that. They told me that for 3 months, they included a foot note on my bill that said that I needed to switch, which had I called in and mentioned this during this time, I could have gotten out without an ETF...but guess what. Today was my 3 months, and I have now forfeit that right? At least, so says my ATT rep...
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Yeah, I tried to switch over to the $30 all-inclusive data plan which included texting, but wasn't able to do so. I might just switch over to my KRZR for a day and switch to see what happens, but I'm assuming I'd be back at square one.

unless you have the 30$ plan before their new limited data plans are rolled out, you will be forced to one of those options.

My troubles getting the tmobile/walmart $30 5gb plan

i am going to go off on quite a story here but i hope that my struggles and experience might save someone my troubles.
to start off i was on Verizon. I had the thunderbolt w/ grandfathered unlimited data plan. it was unlimited text/data but no minutes on plan. Any used minutes were $0.25 so i was basically paying $80-$90/mo for the exact same plan as this new tmo/walmart one... plus it was $50 less!
if i would have known the hassle i was about to go through i just might have stayed with verizon and waited for the nexus... If you are not planning to port a number this process might go a lot easier.
this is my experience...
To start the whole process I pulled the trigger on a local SGSII for a steal on craigslist. i thought about how to leave verizon for a few days then decided to go for it. I purchased a sim kit from tmobile.com but was unable to wait for the SIM kit (over a week to ship!) i head over to a local tmobile B&M store. i told them the plan i wanted and show them online, they said they had heard ( i call BS) of it and that i could go online and choose it. They activate the SIM and began the number port from verizon. I was told to go online at home and select the plan i wanted, so i get home and go online to select my plan, but it isn't available. Every other plan was available but not the $30 5gb plan!
I called tmo support (prepaid support is an offshore callcenter) and was told because the SIM card was activated in store i was not eligible to get this plan. i was told i could purchase another SIM kit and it would work with no problems and i would still be able to port my number (that was already in the process).
At this point i visited another tmobile store and was successfully able to swap the activated SIM kit for an unactivated one. Only after several hours (and reps over the phone) and a trip to Walmart i find this in store bought SIM would not work either.
A SIM ACTIVATION KIT PURCHASED IN A B&M TMO STORE WILL NOT WORK
FOR THIS PLAN YOU MUST PURCHASE A SIM ACTIVATION KIT FROM TMOBILE.COM OR WALMART
ok. ok. now that the confusion was cleared (i was told differently by phone and in store reps) off i head to a local Walmart for the second time. surprise surprise, for the second they were clueless of this plan and were absolutely no help at all.
Next day my SIM kit from tmobile.com finally arrives!!! YES! at this point i am pretty sure this is the only way and this will go fine and i will be activated immediately through my.tmobile.com. i go online to activate. i enter all my info and activation code. I am presented with plan options and BINGO the $30 5gb plan is there! I choose the plan click next and get a "Review your order and submit" page. when clicking on "submit" the page just errors out. FAHHHHHH! i tried again and again and from 3 computers. same error at the same place!!!!! I call support and of course their response is "we can not activate this plan over the phone. you must activate online or at walmart" and when i replied "but neither of these options are working for me!!!!!!!!!" the call mysterioulsy dropped. at this time its 4 days from starting the number port from the original SIM and i start worrying about losing my ported number... eventually (several reps and hours later) I was able to get a CS rep on the phone that put me on hold very willing to help and found a way to get me on the correct plan. I then get transfered to the number porting dept to get my number moved to this correct account. WHEW! that evening everything is working fine and im getting data and relieved to finally have this experience behind me. I am just waiting for the number port to go through then i am done and on the road to $50 savings a month! not so fast...
The next day as soon as i noticed the number port went through i got a text from TMO that i had reached my data limit!?! WTF how could i go through 5gb in a week, most of it w/o service? i used the tmobile app to check my data usage and found they changed my plan on me!!! now i have the other $30 plan with like 100mb data! i call customer support furious! little good does that do. another day on the phone and multiple hangups later i was able to find someone who said i was basically screwed and that i would have to order a new SIM online and start over. WTF!?!?!?!?!
at this point im done fighting and just order another SIM.
after some research i call back to discuss this whole ordeal w CS and find out how they will transfer my $100 deposited to this bad account to my new account when i get the new SIM in the mail. i finally found a simpathetic rep who fought to get this fixed. using my my original activation code for verification that the plan was available (from the 1st sim purchased online) the rep found a manager that was able to over ride the plan back to the correct $30 5gb plan. I refused my new (replacement)SIM when it arrived and was credited the money back. Its been almost 2 weeks now and everything seems ok... FINGERS CROSSED!
some things to i found that you should know:
A SIM ACTIVATION KIT PURCHASED IN A B&M TMO STORE WILL NOT WORK
FOR THIS PLAN YOU MUST PURCHASE A SIM ACTIVATION KIT FROM TMOBILE.COM OR WALMART
If you purchase in B&M store IT WILL NOT WORK
A FAMILY MOBILE SIM KIT WILL NOT WORK
if you are a current tmobile customer they WILL NOT PORT YOUR NUMBER.
TLDR?
1. do not expect a port of your current tmo number.
2. purchase your sim kit from tmobile.com
3. hope like hell they have the kinks out of this system!

WOW! that's quite a horror nightmarish story you got there for Halloween
i feel for yah
most people would have quit at that point and moved on to another company

AllGamer said:
WOW! that's quite a horror nightmarish story you got there for Halloween
i feel for yah
most people would have quit at that point and moved on to another company
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after dropping my unlimited data at verizon i figured i was pretty much screwed and any other company (AT&T and Sprint suck in DFW from my experience) it was gonna cost more for worse... I was pretty determined to get this plan working. i guess its the cheapo in me

My experience was super simple……after reading up online prior to attempting.
Walked into T-Mobile store after seeing Wal-Mart did not have the SIM only activation kits. I paid 10$ for the kit after insisting to the Tmo store that I did not need them to set me up with anything.
Went home then plugged in the EMI,SIM & Activation code to the T-Mobile website. Funded the account and picked the plan… Done
(using Google voice for my number)
Did not have to talk with anyone and the whole process took maybe an hour.

My experience is delightful too. Since i read about ur post, i have little bit of scare about the walmart prepaid SIM card and Tmobile prepaid SIM card.
Luckily, I been into the shop so many time. All the employee know me, when i get in...they thought i getting the 49.99 value family plan, but i tell them i got the $30 prepaid plan from walmart but walmart run out of SIM card and was told to get one from Tmobile store. They had their time, they were very puzzle when i told them. But there is one experience lady went online and read about the plan, and surprisingly, she manage to figure thing out. One thing she mentions is "they had to activate the SIM card through the Tmobile website instead of their system" I think that is what saved me.
From my experience, if you going to let Tmobile employee do this, be sure they know what they are doing and you know what they are doing.
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btw, i join Tmobile Samsung Galaxy S2 family. Welcome me?
hahhahhahahah!

I did this today, didn't have any problems at all activating.
Followed the discussion on Slickdeals on this, and bought my sim card from Amazon for less than free, like 2 something, and it came with 3 something of T-Mobile credit on it.
I went onto the T-Mobile online activations website, and activated my sim card on the 5GB $30 plan. To pay I bought a discount refill pin that came instantly from CallingMart.
Smooth sailing all around.

theyownus said:
i am going to go off on quite a story here but i hope that my struggles and experience might save someone my troubles.
to start off i was on Verizon. I had the thunderbolt w/ grandfathered unlimited data plan. it was unlimited text/data but no minutes on plan. Any used minutes were $0.25 so i was basically paying $80-$90/mo for the exact same plan as this new tmo/walmart one... plus it was $50 less!
if i would have known the hassle i was about to go through i just might have stayed with verizon and waited for the nexus... If you are not planning to port a number this process might go a lot easier.
this is my experience...
To start the whole process I pulled the trigger on a local SGSII for a steal on craigslist. i thought about how to leave verizon for a few days then decided to go for it. I purchased a sim kit from tmobile.com but was unable to wait for the SIM kit (over a week to ship!) i head over to a local tmobile B&M store. i told them the plan i wanted and show them online, they said they had heard ( i call BS) of it and that i could go online and choose it. They activate the SIM and began the number port from verizon. I was told to go online at home and select the plan i wanted, so i get home and go online to select my plan, but it isn't available. Every other plan was available but not the $30 5gb plan!
I called tmo support (prepaid support is an offshore callcenter) and was told because the SIM card was activated in store i was not eligible to get this plan. i was told i could purchase another SIM kit and it would work with no problems and i would still be able to port my number (that was already in the process).
At this point i visited another tmobile store and was successfully able to swap the activated SIM kit for an unactivated one. Only after several hours (and reps over the phone) and a trip to Walmart i find this in store bought SIM would not work either.
A SIM ACTIVATION KIT PURCHASED IN A B&M TMO STORE WILL NOT WORK
FOR THIS PLAN YOU MUST PURCHASE A SIM ACTIVATION KIT FROM TMOBILE.COM OR WALMART
ok. ok. now that the confusion was cleared (i was told differently by phone and in store reps) off i head to a local Walmart for the second time. surprise surprise, for the second they were clueless of this plan and were absolutely no help at all.
Next day my SIM kit from tmobile.com finally arrives!!! YES! at this point i am pretty sure this is the only way and this will go fine and i will be activated immediately through my.tmobile.com. i go online to activate. i enter all my info and activation code. I am presented with plan options and BINGO the $30 5gb plan is there! I choose the plan click next and get a "Review your order and submit" page. when clicking on "submit" the page just errors out. FAHHHHHH! i tried again and again and from 3 computers. same error at the same place!!!!! I call support and of course their response is "we can not activate this plan over the phone. you must activate online or at walmart" and when i replied "but neither of these options are working for me!!!!!!!!!" the call mysterioulsy dropped. at this time its 4 days from starting the number port from the original SIM and i start worrying about losing my ported number... eventually (several reps and hours later) I was able to get a CS rep on the phone that put me on hold very willing to help and found a way to get me on the correct plan. I then get transfered to the number porting dept to get my number moved to this correct account. WHEW! that evening everything is working fine and im getting data and relieved to finally have this experience behind me. I am just waiting for the number port to go through then i am done and on the road to $50 savings a month! not so fast...
The next day as soon as i noticed the number port went through i got a text from TMO that i had reached my data limit!?! WTF how could i go through 5gb in a week, most of it w/o service? i used the tmobile app to check my data usage and found they changed my plan on me!!! now i have the other $30 plan with like 100mb data! i call customer support furious! little good does that do. another day on the phone and multiple hangups later i was able to find someone who said i was basically screwed and that i would have to order a new SIM online and start over. WTF!?!?!?!?!
at this point im done fighting and just order another SIM.
after some research i call back to discuss this whole ordeal w CS and find out how they will transfer my $100 deposited to this bad account to my new account when i get the new SIM in the mail. i finally found a simpathetic rep who fought to get this fixed. using my my original activation code for verification that the plan was available (from the 1st sim purchased online) the rep found a manager that was able to over ride the plan back to the correct $30 5gb plan. I refused my new (replacement)SIM when it arrived and was credited the money back. Its been almost 2 weeks now and everything seems ok... FINGERS CROSSED!
some things to i found that you should know:
A SIM ACTIVATION KIT PURCHASED IN A B&M TMO STORE WILL NOT WORK
FOR THIS PLAN YOU MUST PURCHASE A SIM ACTIVATION KIT FROM TMOBILE.COM OR WALMART
If you purchase in B&M store IT WILL NOT WORK
A FAMILY MOBILE SIM KIT WILL NOT WORK
if you are a current tmobile customer they WILL NOT PORT YOUR NUMBER.
TLDR?
1. do not expect a port of your current tmo number.
2. purchase your sim kit from tmobile.com
3. hope like hell they have the kinks out of this system!
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If you werent soo impatient you would'nt have has the problems you had, smh its only a week.
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I'd love to do a deal like this. How do you get the phone? They go for over $500! I'm getting one via T-Mobile corporate rate and it's still twice that $30 rate for only 2gb data,unlim text and 500 talk! I'd much rather have the $30 5g data unlim text 100 min deal....

Quite the horror story indeed...can't help but wonder if you had waited for your original sim in the mail if you would have had all these issues...

I really wish reps would read their email. But it may have been indirect you went to. This plan is only avalible at walmart and online. Tmobile retail stores have no way of activating this plan or switching you to it. If for some reason you change off of it there is no going back you will need to start again per the training materials provided by corporate. As for the number once a number is ported to tmobile no you cant port it again. They need to do a reuse request that can take up to 72 hours to complete. Glad its all working for you now and am very impressed you got prepaid to credit you anything.
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iloveandroid16 said:
If you werent soo impatient you would'nt have has the problems you had, smh its only a week.
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This must be the most helpful answer in the history of xda! You win!
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Born_Immaculate88 said:
Quite the horror story indeed...can't help but wonder if you had waited for your original sim in the mail if you would have had all these issues...
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Not as much trouble for sure, but remember after I received it I still ran into problems trying to activate online...
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Hotspot?
Can you get an Android phone to act as a hotspot with this plan?

Dang, I feel for you man.
I didn't have to go through all that though.
I was already a T-Mobile customer out of contract. I seen that the prepaid plans were so much cheaper than the 95 something I was paying a month, so I switched over to prepaid.
All I did was pick up a prepaid phone from Target that was $30, popped the prepaid sim card into my Galaxy S2, and activated it online with the $30 web only offer.
No hassle whatsoever
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kikbuttcheerleader said:
All I did was pick up a prepaid phone from Target that was $30, popped the prepaid sim card into my Galaxy S2, and activated it online with the $30 web only offer.
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Were you able to keep your old T-Mobile phone number, or did you need to activate with a new number?

My ordeal was not as bad as yours (for which sounds like a hell of a time.)
I purchased a $30 dollar phone from Wal-Mart the night prior to the $30 dollar plan being released.
Then purchased outright a GS2 from the local T-Mobile store, activated the SIM card on the $30 dollar pre-paid phone, then called T-Mobile support to port the number over.
I was quoted 24-48 hours, I was previously on Virgin Mobile with a Triumph and realized this really takes like 5 minutes.
After 48 hours I called and complained, they told me, it'll port over soon, no worries.
Called 24 hours after that, demanded to talk to the 'porting department' if there is one, and I talked to someone who did it right then and there, right to the point where he told me to reboot the phone and voila, my number was ported. From then it took about 4 hours to get full service/data, and a full 24 hours before I could go in and edit settings/profiles and stupid WebGuard settings on T-Mobile.com
Here's to hoping T-Mobile stays afloat and the pre-paid plan, If I have to port again i'm going to literally just call directly to the port department.
We all learn from these things, but the $30 plan is sooo worth it.

I'm on an unlimited family plan with my best friend right now & we're splitting the $150 bill, but he's been seriously pissing me off lately & I'm thinking of just telling him to go to hell & switching to this plan. Are there free night & weekend minutes or mobile to mobile with this? If not I'm thinking I could get around that with google voice & GrooveIP. Hmm.......

kabuk1 said:
Are there free night & weekend minutes or mobile to mobile with this? Hmm.......
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Unfortunately not, and I haven't dabbled with VOIP yet. I'll share what I find out

Yeah, it kind of went like that for me too... I was a post-paid customer (on the old Even More Plus, 500 & UL text/data for $60) and they converted me to pre-paid, but I couldn't pick the WM plan online. I had to order a SIM kit and wait for it to get here. Supposedly WM won't sell just the activation kit (I cannot confirm or deny this, didn't try).
I was told the whole time that I could port my old T-Mobile number over once it was done. That was wrong, basically ran into the same problem the OP had... I would lose the WM plan if I did. Not a huge deal to email all of my friends with a new number and put a voice mail message on the old number, small hassle to cut my monthly nut in half.
Keeping on forum topic, my new SGSII is pretty sweet!!

djmasters said:
Yeah, it kind of went like that for me too... I was a post-paid customer (on the old Even More Plus, 500 & UL text/data for $60) and they converted me to pre-paid, but I couldn't pick the WM plan online. I had to order a SIM kit and wait for it to get here. Supposedly WM won't sell just the activation kit (I cannot confirm or deny this, didn't try).
I was told the whole time that I could port my old T-Mobile number over once it was done. That was wrong, basically ran into the same problem the OP had... I would lose the WM plan if I did. Not a huge deal to email all of my friends with a new number and put a voice mail message on the old number, small hassle to cut my monthly nut in half.
Keeping on forum topic, my new SGSII is pretty sweet!!
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Something to consider, unless you have already cancelled your post account, is to port your number out to another service provider without picking up hardware (to avoid restock fees/wasting a store's on-hand stock) then giving the activations department a ring and having them port in your number from X to replace the "temp" number you have now with the WM plan.

Black Wireless (AT&T mvno)

http://www.blackwireless.com/Default.aspx
Has anyone tried them yet or currently using their service? $60 unlimited with 2gb of data on at&t network seems like a decent deal, but they seem pretty similar to H20, who offers 2gb of data for the same price but throttles you after 500mb. Just curious cause I can't seem to find too many reviews of them on the web.
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You'd be better off with a SIM from Straight Talk.
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ztmike said:
You'd be better off with a SIM from Straight Talk.
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Not a Straight Talk fan but I have to agree, if 2GB is all your getting with Black Wireless, go for ST and don't look back.

ztmike said:
You'd be better off with a SIM from Straight Talk.
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im on straight talk at&t now, this is my first month... i got throttled halfway into the month and im positive i havent even used 1gb yet.
im jumping ship on them as soon as my month is up. I came from T-Mobile prepaid and I don't wanna deal with this petty a** throttle stuff. all I need is 2gb a month, I never go over that and I don't really stream or tether. really wanna keep the at&t coverage though, after using it for the past 2 weeks I've realized its waaaaaaaay better than tmo in my area
gedster314 said:
Not a Straight Talk fan but I have to agree, if 2GB is all your getting with Black Wireless, go for ST and don't look back.
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lowrider262 said:
im on straight talk at&t now, this is my first month... i got throttled halfway into the month and im positive i havent even used 1gb yet.
im jumping ship on them as soon as my month is up. I came from T-Mobile prepaid and I don't wanna deal with this petty a** throttle stuff. all I need is 2gb a month, I never go over that and I don't really stream or tether. really wanna keep the at&t coverage though, after using it for the past 2 weeks I've realized its waaaaaaaay better than tmo in my area
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When you got throttled, did they turn off data completely or was data just extremely slowed?

madferretx said:
When you got throttled, did they turn off data completely or was data just extremely slowed?
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slowed down. every speed test comes up as .23 mb/s, regardless of where I am, time of day, or signal strength. before I was getting anywhere from 1.5- 6mb down
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Is this only for black people?
JUST KIDDING!
Never heard of this MVNO before. Post your experience with it if you sign up please? Thanks. :good:
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Seems just exactly like H2O Wireless if you ask me, i'm using them now. ....
LOL - Actually if you look at the bottom you'll see it's from Locus Telecom anyways which is the owner of H2O and others. America Movil (Tracfone, Straight Talk and Net10) is the other big one but i hear they are wanting to buy Locus or maybe just the H2O portion.
So this is just a copy of their other offerings with a different name to do extra revenue stream I guess. People might have a bad deal with H2O so they switch to Black Wireless LOL only to still be with the same company.

I'll save $15 and stick with ST.
lowrider262 said:
slowed down. every speed test comes up as .23 mb/s, regardless of where I am, time of day, or signal strength. before I was getting anywhere from 1.5- 6mb down
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Have you called them? I also wouldn't be surprised if you did use ~2gb especially if you did OTA app updates.

threeclaws said:
I'll save $15 and stick with ST.
Have you called them? I also wouldn't be surprised if you did use ~2gb especially if you did OTA app updates.
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not yet, I opened a ticket on their fb page the other day but it didn't fix anything. and I don't update or download stuff on data I have WiFi at home. I've been on the 2gb plan from tmo for a while before this so I'm pretty mindful of data usage, on a regular month I'm between 1.5-1.7gb.
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lowrider262 said:
not yet, I opened a ticket on their fb page the other day but it didn't fix anything. and I don't update or download stuff on data I have WiFi at home. I've been on the 2gb plan from tmo for a while before this so I'm pretty mindful of data usage, on a regular month I'm between 1.5-1.7gb.
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Dunno I'm on the st Tom plan right now and have bumped up against the 2gb "cap" a number of times with no throttling but I've gone back and forth (between Tom and AT&T) since getting st so I hope st isn't going to start throttling at 1gb.

I just got my N4 today. Don't know if it has been mentioned here before, I put my GoPhone $50 unlimited sim (dumb phone plan) in, data and calls worked fine. Been using for a few months with a Note2 N7100 and had no issues with throttling. No telling how long before ATT starts blocking it. My Note N7000 was blocked form the first day. I'm currently testing the TMobile $30 dollar plan to see if their coverage works for me.

gedster314 said:
I just got my N4 today. Don't know if it has been mentioned here before, I put my GoPhone $50 unlimited sim (dumb phone plan) in, data and calls worked fine. Been using for a few months with a Note2 N7100 and had no issues with throttling. No telling how long before ATT starts blocking it. My Note N7000 was blocked form the first day. I'm currently testing the TMobile $30 dollar plan to see if their coverage works for me.
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still working fine? I'm looking for some alternatives but the mvno's are kinda iffy with the data ambiguity

Black Wireless
I bought a sim card two Saturdays ago. I only got it on the following Friday, pretty slow shipping.
Activation was painless, it worked fine. I have not tried data yet. I was excited about the international calling. But they are a lot more expensive than what they claim. For example, they said I have 19 minutes to call cell phones in Argentina, well, I dialed a cell phone number and I got a message saying I only had credit to talk for 5 minutes! So, I hung up, didn't make the call since it was four times more expensive than what they claim. Same when I call to landlines, I was supposed to have like 10 hours, the first time I call it said I had like 6 hours left, I talked for about 4 minutes. The next day I make another call to Argentina and it said I had about 4 and a half hours, and this call was about 6 minutes. Next I make another call and I get the message that I have 3 and a half hours to talk. So for each call they are charging me like a whole hour! It is definetly not what they are advertising. If there is a connection charge, they don't state it anywhere I could find it.
I sent a support e-mail two days ago and have yet to hear back.
So, I would not recommend this service to anybody.

For those with slow speeds on ST att, they have a new apn.
make sure you are using the new apn tfdata.
I have used over 4gb and still cranking 6mb down 3 mb up.

kthejoker20 said:
For those with slow speeds on ST att, they have a new apn.
make sure you are using the new apn tfdata.
I have used over 4gb and still cranking 6mb down 3 mb up.
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Is there a way to check your data usage with ST besides tracking it with your phone? I have been flashing different things on my N4 so that in not accurate.

1. I used 11215 and got $5 off with free shipping.
2. Paid for 1 month and got second month free.
3. Decent customer rep.
4. They include free International direct dial minutes. Around 300 minutes in $30 plan and so forth.
5. Got my SIM in 3 days.
6. Porting took 5 hours.