cell phone wi fi question

[f.2]

if you are in a hot zone, wi fi, whathaveyou, and your cell does not have an internet plan, can you surf for free?

[Glock35]

Yes You Can.

[YugoRPK]

Supposedly but Ive never been able to get my HTC piece of crap to do it.

Free work phones...

[mk23]

yes, you can. My motorola droid has done it since day one

[Selectedmarksman]

I'd say it depends on the phone. My Android based phone asks if you have a data plan or only want to use Wifi when you set it up. You can also toggle wifi and mobile service on and off at any time. When I'm doing lots of media streaming and I'm near a wifi network I trust (like at home) I use that so I don't piss off my carrier by 'abusing' the unlimited data plan. I don't want them considering doing what AT&T did and limiting it.

[phoenix]

I'd say it depends on the phone. My Android based phone asks if you have a data plan or only want to use Wifi when you set it up. You can also toggle wifi and mobile service on and off at any time. When I'm doing lots of media streaming and I'm near a wifi network I trust (like at home) I use that so I don't piss off my carrier by 'abusing' the unlimited data plan. I don't want them considering doing what AT&T did and limiting it.

AT&T limited the data plans because they saw that 97% of consumers used less than 2gb of data a month. they also wanted to open up the smartphone market to new consumers (such as why the iphone was avaliable to anyone who had an upgrade this coming year at no addtl. cost)

the $15 data is lucrative for them. why do i say that? because of the overage. they dont charge what they usually chare ($.05 per kb or some nonsense), they just tack on an extra $15 for 200 more mb.

still have my unlimited iphone data plan and still plan to use it till they pry it from my hands. being an AT&T agent helps though

[Selectedmarksman]

Yeah... I like how AT&T's solution was to limit their service rather than improve their infrastructure so they could continue to offer it...

In related news: AT&T/Apple fucking hate New York.

[Glock35]

There's a reason they declared bankruptcy before....outdated network. Comcast has spent a lot of $$ here update the peripheral and backbone for their broadband service.