Know before you go: AT&T introduces International Data Plan for iPhone

is there a way to just completely remove edge on the iphone? i dont ever want it again!!

I traveled to Canada for about two weeks, and called ATT international to request they put a block on my data (EDGE) plan just before flying out.

The "E" icon disappeared from my phone and none of the data apps worked after that point without wifi while still in the US (and subsequently, in Canada), though I could send MMS and text messages and would be billed a lot more for those. When wifi was available, I could do mail, maps etc.

I have yet to receive a bill, but I'll bet I avoided the worst of the international data roaming charges.

do you need more reasons to unlock the damn thing and start using its features when and where you want them?

Amen to the "WTF?"ing about how American ROAMING rates are TEN TIMES CHEAPER than Canadian home region rates... We pay basic 5c/kB, but a plan (well you have to do a plan for data really anyways) for Americans grants the mystical rate of 0.5c/kB... I HOPE that when the iPhone comes out here (which it should have by now really...), that Rogers smartens up and finally offers AN unlimited data plan (the "best" we can do is $100/month for 200 MB [from memory]).. AT&T is nice and simple... +$20 for unlimited...

"You can use UIctl to unload -w com.apple.CommCenter. This disables both EDGE and phone calls until you load -w it back on and survives power cycling/reboots/locks."


Sure you can do that or umm just put the phone in airplane mode which is the exact same thing and needs no 3rd party application..come on..lets keep it simple

Wouldn't Airport mode work to stop your phone from ringing home?

Wouldn't Airport mode work to stop your phone from ringing home?

My wife is over in Ukraine for a month visiting family, sadly the great free iPhone unlock wasn't ready in time but I have her trained to pop out the SIM card so we won't get a $3500 bill for data charges like one of her friends just did after visiting Ukraine for only 2 weeks! I don't have many quibbles about AT&T really, except for their unholy international rates. I've just read too many horror stories online about these nightmare bills! Thankfully AT&T appears to have updated their online billing system and you can get fairly accurate information much faster than before, so if my wife has a lapse of sanity and leaves her SIM card in, I'll see it online (I'm checking every day!) and can correct her accordingly. ;-)

And that monthly international data package is crap, of course Ukraine isn't even on the list anyway and 20 MB for $25 is baloney! Boo!

Based on this Article:

http://theinquirer.net/?article=42235

Even turning it off isn't a good idea.

Never, ever believe anything a rep has to tell you... they're clueless.

I wanted my data roaming charges explained since I knew there was no EDGE network in Vietnam. The first rep I spoke to told me that even though there's no EDGE network in Vietnam, it was picking up an EDGE connection through wifi! I told her that's not the way it works and was passed to another rep who told me that AT&T can charge you for using wifi on your iPhone. I told him that wifi is an iPhone capability, not an AT&T service and that they can't since connecting to wifi does not connect to AT&T's network. I asked him if they can charge me for listening to music on my iPhone. He said yes, if it connected to the Internet, and hung up on me.

The 5th and final rep I spoke to had a logical explanation that I accepted--the iPhone was still hitting the towers while I was connected through wifi even though there was no EDGE network to connect to. But it's still traffic to them (the provider in Vietnam) even if it's not going anywhere. That, I blame Apple for.