Hello, Ed. Unfortunately, Sieghard is entirely correct as to Verizon's ability to technically force you into having a data plan for an iPhone. The Verizon iPhones use CDMA for voice at this time, and that means Verizon can and does limit what devices are on the network by their ESN, which identifies the device type as well as the specific device. If you are looking for a voice only option due to cheapness, however, you may want to simply get a data plan if you have an iPhone 5. If you buy a SIM card for the iPhone 5 LTE (the iPhone 5 uses a SIM card), and inform Verizon that you will be using a data only device, you may well be able to get away with just a data plan and use Skype for voice, which may well be cheaper than a voice/data plan. Whether this is acceptable for you depends entirely on whether you are in an LTE area, whether you are comfortable with Skype, and whether Verizon itself will technically allow the LTE portion of the iPhone 5 to sign on to the network without the CDMA portion signing on as well. Note that you will not have this problem with AT&T or T-Mobile, but you will need a GSM device to handle those networks. HTH. Aman
On 7/13/13, RobH! <bobs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'd be surprised if you could get a plan without data, given how eubiquitous > > smartish phones are that use the data. It might be a token amount on a paig > > simm, but has to be there I should think. You'd ahve to switchoff all the > cellular data things in settings and just keep wifi. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Minor" <kmi...@windstream.net> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 2:51 AM > Subject: RE: using iphone without a data plan > > > Hi Ed. > > > > I had my iPhone, which was with AT&T. My contract ran out, and I was able > to cancel my data plan. I don't know if, when you get a new plan for your > phone, if you have to get data with the phone service. Also, as I said, > this was with AT&T. I don't know what other carriers do in this case. > > > > Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY > > kmi...@windstream.net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
