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iPhone: Canceling ATT contract - will WiFi still work?
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If someone purchases an iPhone, activates it and uses it for a couple months, determines the cell phone coverage is not good enough and then proceeds to cancel and switch to another carrier, will the iPhone still function as an iPod and WiFi device? essentially becoming an iPod Touch?
Or if upon cancellation, does it become a stylish paper weight?
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surely you're tied into the contract for 18 months?
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Originally Posted by Peter 
surely you're tied into the contract for 18 months?
Only if they're unwilling to pay the termination fee...
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And, to answer the question, it will essentially become an iPod Touch (with the ability to add calendar entries) and a significantly lighter wallet (after the cancellation fee).
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you will have fat ipod touch with half the memory
well untill you decide to sim unlock it
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if you can prove that there is bad coverage, then they should cancel your servuces right? Then do they have to unlock the iPhone or reimburse the iPhone?
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Originally Posted by rafrafdesign
if you can prove that there is bad coverage, then they should cancel your servuces right? Then do they have to unlock the iPhone or reimburse the iPhone?
No, no, and no.
You still have to pay the contract-end fee, the iPhone will still be locked, and they won't reimburse you for it.
Before activation with ATT the phone won't even work as a wifi web/iPod device; it's just a brick. If you cancel your service it may just go back to being an unactivated brick.
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If I remember correctly many of the cell carriers have maps of their strong and weak coverage areas that you can check b4 hand
and I would really be surprised if they did not cover(no pun intended) themselves somewhere in that fine print we sign but never read
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Honestly, I think you are out of luck. You get a trial period when you first get the phone, during which you are supposed to be evaluating the phone and service (coverage area, reliability, etc). Once the trial period is over, you are locked into the contract. There are a few obscure "outs" but they aren't easy to use.
You will pay the early termination fee, and it is possible that your phone might revert to its "Connect to iTunes for activation" mode.
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Not sure if AT&T would give me a straight answer if I asked, I may try tomorrow.
We live 40 miles or so outside of D.C. and some cell coverage around the house is spotty. Verizon is pretty good, Sprint/Nextel ok.
Anyone know if we get an iPhone with a new cell number, can we later change the iPhone to our Verizon cell number if we decide to stick with AT&T? or do you have to swap numbers at activation?
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