[Android General] lovem:
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---------- Post added at 01:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 PM ----------

you're experience was wrong. I remember the terms way back in 08 when it was added. I had it on all 5 of my lines.

It ONLY allows you to be exempt from being forced to have a data plan with a smartphone. That's it.

and it will automatically get removed if you get back on contract.

Medianet regardless of smartphone exclusion is still ONLY for feature phones.

If that guy want's medianet he'll have to get a phone with a imei that ATT doesn't recognize. There are some random phones that they should recognize but don't. Though that's very rare.

---------- Post added at 08:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:39 AM ----------

when did you add the nokia n73? that's a pretty old phone.

most Symbian's are safe. who uses Symbian anymore? lol. WP8 devices are hit or miss.[/QUOTE]

My experience was wrong you said? This guy sucsss isn't much of a success. Do you know what a data plan is? MediaNet is a data package, but When At&t wanted to make more money, they removed it from use with at&t determined smart phones, then they came out with data plans for smartphones that were capped and unlimted for much more money than medianet which at that time, until LTE rolled out, medianet provided the same class & speed of data as the data plans meant only to be used with smart phones!

Smartphone exclusion" allowed the exemption of at&t's requirement for a smartphone data plans on grandfathered smartphones that were released before at&t required capped data for smarphones but Still allowed unlimited data option for $10 or $15 (medianet) on feature phones. With that line "smartphone exclusion" present on any line medianet could then be added and data speeds would be equivalent, depending on the phone, to data speeds with the more expensive & usage capped at&t smartphone data plans.

My experience is not wrong my boy. Had the line item smartphone exclusion on a line with an at&t branded lg Windows phone and was able to use medianet for over two years until an upgrade was done and the plan was changed. When The line smartphone exclusion was not on the account, at&t kept sending the text for smartphone data plan requirement on the line with the at&t branded lg Windows phone & would add a data plan meant for smartphones, which at the time was 2gb for $25, i think.

Maybe you're not so Inept and just don't realize that there is more to it than what you're saying. Yes If you had the line item smartphone exclusion, you could use an at&t determined smartphone without there requirement for a smartphone data plan. They made that line available for smartphones that were releases before at&t and all the other companies started to realize that they could maximize there profits by requiring all phones released with operating systems, e.g. palm, symbian, windows, that they carried/branded to have a minimum level of data. It just wouldn't have been fair to force a requirement on someone who purchased a device before any such mandate was even conceived, so They made available the account exemption smartphone exclusion for such phone lines.

The probability of it working with iphones is slim to none because at&t shortly before release always required iphone data plans or smartphone data plans to avoid overages with the unlimited plan & again to make more money with the capped plans much more expensive than medianet.

Before you start to bad mouth someone, know your facts. Know your role!

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