{"id":326498,"date":"2010-02-16T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002182"},"modified":"2010-02-15T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T04:24:50","slug":"att-stuck-my-girlfriend-with-a-data-plan-she-didnt-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326498","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Stuck My Girlfriend With A Data Plan She Didn&#8217;t Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/att-thumb-158x118-37042.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>David says he lent his girlfriend an old smart phone, then AT&#038;T forced her into a data plan for which she had no desire. A <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/11\/atandt-forcing-smartphones-even-unlocked-ones-onto-smartphone-da\/1#c25495630\">story on Endgadget<\/a> proves he is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>David writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I lent my previous smartphone to my girlfriend when her old-school RAZR finally bit the dust last week.  She doesn&#8217;t have any sort of data or texting plan and only has a contract for her voice service.  However, she got a message a few days ago stating that a $30 data plan will be added to her bill even though I disabled the data connection on the phone.  How is it not illegal for a company to decide for you that a data plan is necessary?  What&#8217;s to prevent them from deciding you need an unlimited texting plan or their $10 per month navigation option because the phone has a keyboard and internal GPS?  I understand that most phone companies have started doing this when you sign a contract to offset the cost of a subsidized phone, but that&#8217;s not the case here.  What would be a good course of action to put a stop to this nonsense?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve dealt with this issue, how did you handle it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David says he lent his girlfriend an old smart phone, then AT&#038;T forced her into a data plan for which she had no desire. A story on Endgadget proves he is not alone. David writes: I lent my previous smartphone to my girlfriend when her old-school RAZR finally bit the dust last week. She doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}