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Unlimited Plan not HSPA+ compatible?

I received an email saying that i need to get a 4g/hspa+ plan and looked online at my account, which shows the limited data plans as the 4g/hspa+ and unlimited isn't compatible. It also said i need to upgrade to a 4g/hspa+ sim card, but i am using a iphone 4 micro sim with the adapter to regular sim. My question is, has anyone else got this email and are people getting the 4g/hspa+ speeds without the limited plans? I hope this is just a gimmick to get people to jump plans but i am not going to be a happy camper if this is true, which this so called 4g/hspa+ is only 3g at the end of the day.

Call a rep I had to change from blackberry to 4G and still have unlimited data just call into customer service, they will have to get a manager to verify, and the new sim should come with the phone .

I'm currently on the smartphone unlimited data plan and came from the iphone 4 unlimited plan. The problem is if you look at your account there saying that unlimited plans aren't hspa+ compatible. I did use the sim card the came with my phone, which was just a 3g sim card and then i went back to my micro sim because i like being able to switch phones when i want too. I also went up to the store and the rep told me i need a 4g sim card then went to another store and they told me there is no difference in the sim card. This hole 4g/hspa+ crap is so confusing and miss leading. I love my inspire 4g but att is making my experience and living hell.

onthezone said:
I'm currently on the smartphone unlimited data plan and came from the iphone 4 unlimited plan. The problem is if you look at your account there saying that unlimited plans aren't hspa+ compatible. I did use the sim card the came with my phone, which was just a 3g sim card and then i went back to my micro sim because i like being able to switch phones when i want too. I also went up to the store and the rep told me i need a 4g sim card then went to another store and they told me there is no difference in the sim card. This hole 4g/hspa+ crap is so confusing and miss leading. I love my inspire 4g but att is making my experience and living hell.
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The 4G sim card is for lte they are just trying to make a buck. The hspa+ is 3G+ essentially. If you have unlimited data then your fine. As far as I am aware there is no unlimited 4G data plan because its still running off 3G, the only difference in data plans right now besides the tiered options is blackberry data, pda data, and smartphone data.
If you are worried about it, call customer service and have them switch your plan and make sure you keep unlimited. If they say you can't, hang up and call back until you get some one who will.

Thats what i thought about the sim card but i guess i have to wait to see if i get hspa+ with my phone with the unlimited smartphone plan, as there is no 4g/hspa+ unlimited plan only 2gb and 200mb plans. Not going to downgrade for just faster speeds.

Take mudknot's advice and call AT&T customer care. Tell them you are grandfathered into unlimited data and you want to migrate that feature over to the 4G data plan. You won't see an option for unlimited 4G data on the website because AT&T wants as many users as possible on the new tiered data plans.
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dyne2199 said:
Take mudknot's advice and call AT&T customer care. Tell them you are grandfathered into unlimited data and you want to migrate that feature over to the 4G data plan. You won't see an option for unlimited 4G data on the website because AT&T wants as many users as possible on the new tiered data plans.
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So there is a 4g unlimited? been a long day for me sorry. If so I'll call tomorrow.
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Yes there is a 4g unlimited plan, only for existing unlimited customers. It only will show up online as unlimited smartphone data. The sim card only is for lte which in not the inspire.
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I think the problem is the difference between the iPhone data plan (which utilises visual voicemail) and the android one. Just do what these guys say and call customer assistance and ask them to migrate your unlimited data into an android-capable plan, and they should do so without a hitch.

cookw24 said:
I think the problem is the difference between the iPhone data plan (which utilises visual voicemail) and the android one. Just do what these guys say and call customer assistance and ask them to migrate your unlimited data into an android-capable plan, and they should do so without a hitch.
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I do have the smartphone unlimited plan but was making sure there wasn't if there was a 4g unlimited plan now.
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So are we ok on the "smartphone personal" unlimited plan then? They tried to get me to switch too. I was like Hell no lol.
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when i ordered my phone online I had to sign up for the new 2gb data plan.. I used to have the 5gb unlimited plan.. but he computer wouldnt let me leave things be. I know if i wouldve went to best buy i wouldve been able to keep the old plan.. I may call customer support. to see if they can fix it back

they took off my unlimited plan when i switched from my 3gs. but i really dont care, since wifi is where its at. its the only true 4g. (joking btw)

mudknot2005 said:
The 4G sim card is for lte they are just trying to make a buck. The hspa+ is 3G+ essentially. If you have unlimited data then your fine. As far as I am aware there is no unlimited 4G data plan because its still running off 3G, the only difference in data plans right now besides the tiered options is blackberry data, pda data, and smartphone data.
If you are worried about it, call customer service and have them switch your plan and make sure you keep unlimited. If they say you can't, hang up and call back until you get some one who will.
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Yup, Correct and I agree...
I have 5 line family plan ALL with the unlimited data grandfathered plan.
I have an Inspire 4G with the unlimited data +4G. Even if you have it added to your account, your account will still say the same thing (unlimited), but you will get 4G unlimited as well.

Anyone w/ an Infuse + grandfather data?

My mother got and Infuse yesterday and i was over at her house playing with it with my sim in. after i was done i took my sim out and put it back in my fuze (shudder). this morning just as i was leaving the house for the day i got a text message from AT&T telling me that "An eligible data plan is required for your 4g Smartphone. We have added an appropriate data plan. Learn more at att.com/smartphoneplans."
so i disabled data and when i went into my acct on the web when i got home, sure enough the only data feature options i could choose were the new tiered data plans. i had to put my sim in my old ooooooold tmobile MDA for an hour or so until it updated the imei and then i could go back and choose the unlimited data option.
is this normal? if i upgrade to an infuse will that cancel my grandfather'd status? has anyone else grandfather'd updated and kept their data plan? if so how? and if i upgrade through best buy or amazon at the discounted price will i be allowed to keep it or do i have to go to an att store and pay the full upgrade price?

This has happened to a few people on the forums (lost the unlimited when it switched them to 4g) but it shouldn't. Call 611 or go into a store and they can fix it for you. You can have unlimited 4g with you grandfathered plan its just apparently sometimes putting people back to the 2gb.

I was able to keep my unlimited..
sent from Infuse but miss my captivate on cont. 5.5.... One day this can be as good...

They make it a hassle, but you can keep your unlimited data.
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I got the Inuse at Best Buy and they let me keep my unlimited data without any issues. Before that I had bought the Atrix at Best Buy and had no problems either. The rep just said he was going to switch me to unlimited 4G cause the 4G plan is a bit different.

thanks all of you

the issue that occured is that our at&t systems have different classification data plans.
ie: one for blackberries, one for general smartphones (android/palm/symbian/winmo ect), iphone, and hspa+ devices. the fuse is a general classification smartphone so the message was saying that when you put your sim card in the infuse as it is a hspa+ phone, your data might not work correctly, hence the text message to change your data plan. if you go into a cor store, any rep should be able to continue your grandfathered unlimited status.

No issues here, I still have my unlimited plan...
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If they try to do that, call customer care, let them know you have grandfathered unlimited data, they will file a case to change it back. They "accidentally" did that when they provisioned our sim cards for 4g when my wife and I got our Inspire's...

Hell yeah if they remove it I woukd transfer my four family plan to Sprint, now sprint has the same customer service as verizon up date according to recent survey.
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When you call ATT tell them it's called SmartPhone Personal.

Tell them you want to keep the unlimoted plan. Some reps may say you can't but you Can. Dont ttake no for an answer.
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I'm a Rep with att. Just shoot to a store and do it. We are MORE than happy to switch you to the unlimited HSPA+ PLAN because its more commission for us. I switch it all the time!
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Ok so i duno if im getting the rite plan now. Looked online and im getting Smart unlimited..$30 .. But under that u can choose something with 4g.. Also when i click on smart unlimited this windows pops up. Whats "gold list"

It was no hassle keeping my unlimited plan. She asked and I said I wanted to keep it. Done deal.
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bullet358 said:
I'm a Rep with att. Just shoot to a store and do it. We are MORE than happy to switch you to the unlimited HSPA+ PLAN because its more commission for us. I switch it all the time!
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It still possible to get an unlimited plan even if you weren't grandfather by iphone or something? I only had the option for 200mb for $15 or the 2gb for $25 and no option for unlimited.

bullet358 said:
I'm a Rep with att. Just shoot to a store and do it. We are MORE than happy to switch you to the unlimited HSPA+ PLAN because its more commission for us. I switch it all the time!
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ok, i have a question for you, i'm planing on getting an infuse on upgrade, selling that and getting a gs2. if i go back to the $30 unlimited plan when i upgrade after getting the gs2 would i be able to switch back to the cheaper unrecognized imei data plan that i'm on now?

if YOU don't choose to change to another plan, you stay grandfathered. I am still unlimited. If you choose to go to another plan because its cheaper and later decide to use tons of data, you cant go back. If your plan was automatically changed, let CS know. they have the ability to override and re-authorize unlimited.

If they switch me to the H+ unlimited from regular old unlimited will I be able to still use my sim in my HD2? Thanks!
Also has anyone bought from Amazon. How did you go about keeping your unlimited? Just sign up for one of the available plans and then call and have it switched back?

Grandafthered plan
I have grandfathered $30 real unlimited on infuse - only thing changed is 4G addition to it. I understand that they need to classify plans somehow but i do not believe that 4G changes anything related to connection speed. I live in Portland,OR area and eventhough ATT coverage is good localy there are still no real 4G speeds. I tried Inspire, Atrix and now Infuse and none of them went over 2.5Mbps download and 0.5Mbps upload -EVER.
All their bogus stories about 4G cards and 4G dataplans are fairytales --- GSM phone needs provisioned (active) SIM Card of any type, proper APN setup, and reciever able to decode given 3G /4G frequency bands. With such combination you can connect to any GSM network (provided roaming is enabled too). So you can switch SIM cards from phone to phone regardless of data plan in their system.
I was landing on PDX airport in 2009 from Frankfurt, had my N95 with Vodafone prepaid SIM in it and as soon as I turned it on, it autoconfigured and locked to Tmobile 3G network as I still had some money on it to use data and calls. I was also using one ATT SIM card with same data plan (switching to and from ) Iphone3Gs, HTC Touch Pro2, Nokia N97 and unlocked Motorola Defy. Never had single issue...
On the other hand, after being AT&T, Cingular, at&t customer for 10+ years, I am starting to wonder is their service generally worth the money I pay every month.
My bill is for 4 phones;
unlimited family text,
1400min,
real unlimited data plan for Infuse,
real unlimited data plan for Iphone,
2 unlimited data for non smartphones for kids ($10 each)
Total: ~$220 every month....
I was recently looking into Virgin Mobile plans and they give $40 unlimited calls, messages and data. For $25 you get unlimited calls, messages and 20 megs of data (for kids...and my kids use barely any data)
Now that would cut my phone bill about ~$100/month ($1200/year)
Problem is that my dear wife would let go of the Iphone only from her dead cold hands...and she is using it like it is Apache server ~ 10Gig/month
I know I am going off topic but regardless grandfathered or not, my data plan on ATT costs only $10 less then all unlimited package on Virgin mobile.
I am aware that they do not have fancy phones as ATT but honestly ATT does not have a near selection of good phones as Verizon or T-mobile...and lesser data speeds too.
Now I wanted some opinions on my thoughts to switch carriers (and just to let you know I never used anything but GSM since i got my first cell phone in 1993 in Hamburg Germany where I am originally from)

AT&T Go Phone on Inspire?

I've tried searching, but couldn't find an answer, so here goes:
Has anyone tried using their Inspire on AT&T's go phone prepaid service? I went into the AT&T store and noticed that they now have an android phone for their go phone service. I've tried a prepaid sim and it works (though it only has talk and text), but would the $50 unlimited talk, text, and web work for us?

popupstoppa said:
I've tried searching, but couldn't find an answer, so here goes:
Has anyone tried using their Inspire on AT&T's go phone prepaid service? I went into the AT&T store and noticed that they now have an android phone for their go phone service. I've tried a prepaid sim and it works (though it only has talk and text), but would the $50 unlimited talk, text, and web work for us?
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No you still have to get a data plan.
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popupstoppa said:
I've tried searching, but couldn't find an answer, so here goes:
Has anyone tried using their Inspire on AT&T's go phone prepaid service? I went into the AT&T store and noticed that they now have an android phone for their go phone service. I've tried a prepaid sim and it works (though it only has talk and text), but would the $50 unlimited talk, text, and web work for us?
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Where I live there is a prepaid dealer that has prepaid plans for all major service providers att has one called O2 it uses the same towers as att and works with all att cellphones for 60 a month you get unlimited talk text and web and it uses att 3G
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popupstoppa said:
I've tried searching, but couldn't find an answer, so here goes:
Has anyone tried using their Inspire on AT&T's go phone prepaid service? I went into the AT&T store and noticed that they now have an android phone for their go phone service. I've tried a prepaid sim and it works (though it only has talk and text), but would the $50 unlimited talk, text, and web work for us?
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For smartphone users, the data is not included, just the unlimited calling and texting. You must purchase the data seperately and the plans are not so good. $5 for 10mb, $15 for 100mb, $25 for 500mb.
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just get straight talk 45 a month

No you cant use unlimited data on. You have to buy data package. 500MB ~ 25$.
So if you have 50$ unlimited just for minutes and sms. I tried to do that but it's not working. More, you have to change APN in order to use data.

daddioj said:
just get straight talk 45 a month
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isn't straight talk cdma?

gcihlar said:
isn't straight talk cdma?
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No
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Straight Talk has both GSM (ATT) and CDMA (verizon) phones. And you can't use an unlocked inspire with them anymore. The only way to do it before was to buy the $200 nokia phone. The rest of straight talk's gsm phones had sim cards locked to the phones. The nokia did not. But now even the nokia phones lock their sim chips to the phone. And even those with older unlocked sims are being caught by straight talk and having their accounts closed.

Agoattamer said:
Straight Talk has both GSM (ATT) and CDMA (verizon) phones. And you can't use an unlocked inspire with them anymore. The only way to do it before was to buy the $200 nokia phone. The rest of straight talk's gsm phones had sim cards locked to the phones. The nokia did not. But now even the nokia phones lock their sim chips to the phone. And even those with older unlocked sims are being caught by straight talk and having their accounts closed.
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i actually just recently did the straight talk nokia phone to inspire. and i have no issues. i just hope they dont suspend me. but the sim was not locked to my phone or anything

I was thinking of doing the same thing myself. But I did some researching on the internet. Hopefully it holds out for you. Let us know if you have any issues down the road.

I'm using my unlock inspire 4g with prepaid service. No problem its working. I don't have data plan I always use wifi.

How did you get the inspire 4g to read the go phone? Because it's not getting any signal from mine. There will be an X over the signal bars. I already unloked the phone.

I have the go phone thing haha it sucks all I have is unlimited txtn it works for me no joke and miui is great cause the option to still connect when data is disabled so no worry about connecting to the internet
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How did you get it working?

Riomaru said:
How did you get it working?
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I already replied in the thread you made. Att has started locking prepaid sim cards to the phone they are activated on for 6 months. Call them and tell them your swapping phones. They will unlock it but it relock to the inspire. Older sim cards didn't do this

zelendel said:
I already replied in the thread you made. Att has started locking prepaid sim cards to the phone they are activated on for 6 months. Call them and tell them your swapping phones. They will unlock it but it relock to the inspire. Older sim cards didn't do this
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I am sorry I didn't see and thank you for your help

Is Straight Talk my best option for 3g/4g data?

Was given an Inspire tonight, and want to start using it with a prepaid plan. I WANT to use T-Mobile's $30 4g Monthly plan, but unfortunately I'll be stuck with 2g speeds, and that's not going to work.
After doing some research on different prepaid carriers, it appears as though Straight Talk is my best option. But even that has a bit of a caveat, since I want to stream Spotify regularly, and don't want to get kicked off and locked from my number because of the stupid TOS.
So, is there a better option than Straight Talk for data on prepaid carriers?
Thanks.

I think Straight Talk or AT&T prepaid are the only two of your options...

I use simple mobile but that would mean you have to use edge which is unfortunate... Other than that there isn't much that hasn't a decent plan for the money that I've seen.
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Straight Talk. I heard you get about 3-4 mbps , and about a 2-3 gig throttle.
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Going Data Only on This Thing?

I have an htc inspire and when my contract expires in November I am thinking I would like to go data only on it . I don't make many phone calls and like the idea of having something like a smartphone in my pocket that i could check my email or google maps when i would need it but don't want to pay a fortune for a contract that i don't need. Would the t-mobile $30 a month for unlimited 4g and 100 minutes work on the inspire? Btw i'm located about 30 miles south east of chicago if that is any help. Want to know what my options would be on something like this. Also I have a playstation vita 3g which i never use the 3g part. would it be possible to take out that sim card and use the data plan on that?

The inspire does not have T-Mobile 3g radios. You will only get edge with T-Mobile sim. So if you can live with that then go ahead. There is straight talk they sell att sim unlimited tlk,txt, around 2gb of data for 45. Also get postpaid coverage with roaming!!!!
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so if i went to canada like i do once or so a year i would be able to use my data at no additional charge?