iPhone 101: Eight 3G iPhone Plan Pricing Details You Need to Know

I got an iPhone back in April, and they never told me about the $36 activation fee when I purchase the phone and plan. I called a few days after getting my first bill and told them I'd been a Sprint subscriber for the last five years, was out of contract and decided to make the switch to AT&T, etc...and they waived the $36 fee for me. Just throwing that out there...

I agree the iPhone is a phat piece of gear but is it REALLY worth all this? ATT gouge away!

From Macintouch:

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/en/iReady_checklist.pdf

Seems to imply if you have a corporate plan, you get to pay $45.

But remember most corporate plans come with a discount, 10-20% depending on how big your company is. So say I have the $99 unlimited voice + $45 business data -- with a 10% corp discount, that's $14.50 off, or about the same at the end of the day. I think this is more cost recovery than anything else.

Makes for a hard decision with the higher data rates and crippled GPS (no turn by turn directions).

Is Erica going to try out the 3G only pseudo-plan?

I sure hope so

Anyone know if it's going to possible to drop the data plan with the 3G iPhone as it was with the original?

I also live in an area where WiFi is everywhere, and would really prefer the money for the data plan in my pocket, not AT&T's.

Hey are there any developer/product management folk out there who would be willing to talk to me?

wow, you guys are getting ripped off bigtime over there in the US ; /, contracts are cheaper here, iphones are cheaper here, sms are standard.. dang

Well if AT&T is actually considering only allowing corporate users to use Exchange they will have to enabled it within the next week. I currently have the 2.0 software (and have since the beginning) and I've been using exchange on a person account the whole time with no issues. So it's highly unlikley that's what they meant.

This makes me hate AT&T more! Unfortunately if I want an iPhone, it seems like I have not choice. Switch from Verizon where I'm paying $45 + taxes and fees to AT&T for $70+$5(SMS) + taxes and fees and activation fee. What other cell phone company charges an activation fee? Does AT&T currently charge an activation fee, or are they trying to rip-off all the consumers who wants an the new iPhone 3G, just because they can? This angers me to see that they're unbundling SMS, adding $10/month for data and adding a activation fee.