T-Mobile prepaid and data plan possible?

is it possible to have a single number that uses prepaid for normal phone calls and be subscribed to a data plan?

i dont think i will need to use the phone that much, and can probably get by with prepaid, but it would be next to have a data plan for email and internet.

anyone know if this is possible?
thanks

The only data plan that works on prepaid is the sidekick data plan. The unlimited data and hotspot plan has no prepaid option.

you can only use sidekick data on prepaid

as far as blackberrys or tmobile internet it is not possible

T-Mobile's montly data plan is $49.99/month for regular data phones (Treo's, Windows Mobile devices) or $29.99 for Blackberry. If you are going to be accessing corp email then it's usually $10 more.

Data add on's are less if you have a voice plan - Internet is only $29.99 and Blackberry $19.99 (still about $10 more for corp email)

So here's a thought:
Get the basic voice plan - $29.99
Add on unlim data - $19.99 - $29.99
Total - $50 - $60/month.

Or the other thing is that any of the data plans (so long as you don't get a voice barred plan) still allows you to make calls at anytime for $0.20/min.

So it's not prepaid, but still allows for calls.

Hope this helps!

Lacking a data plan for prepaid phones is one area where T-Mobile really falls short (no 3G yet is the other). I have a contract account with a data plan, but I needed a plan to use with another phone and didn't really want to have to swap my contract SIM between phones. I also didn't want to add another line to my contract; that was too costly a solution for what I was trying to do. What I ended up doing was getting a prepaid Cingular account. I just never use the more costly (over T-Mobile prepaid) voice part of the account. But Cingular will let me use its data plan at .015 per kilobyte. This can add up with serious web searching, but is reasonable when downloading email headers and the occasional full email message.

International T-Mobile charges the same amount for data when I use my phone outside the U.S. (or, at least it does when used in Europe; I don't remember if it's the same in other countries).

T-Mobile, I'd gladly spend my money with you instead of Cingular if you'd just allow it. Dangerous to let one of your customers get in a relationship with another company.

I don't see why they should offer options like data with a prepaid account. Certain options could have varying costs from month to month and result in different charges each month. Sounds like a postpaid account now. Get the basic plan if you want data and voice.

You don't understand how Cingular (and even T-Mobile overseas) handles data with prepaid. Instead of charging by the minute a set amount and deducting that from the balance on your prepaid account, as they do with prepaid voice calls, the company simply charges by the kilobyte of information transmitted and deducts that amount from your account. To get a typical amount of email headers costs probably 20 or 30 cents.

Unfortunately, the cost of data plans is much more than I'm willing to pay to get what might be $5.00 or $10.00 worth of data at the pay-as-you-go data rates.

Finally, with the Cingular plan I'm not aware of any limitations on where I can surf, unlike the lowest cost T-Mobile plan.

Sure, T-Mobile will make more money if I pay for a data plan, but only if I sign up for a contract and a data plan, which I am not doing (if you read my original post, I've already done that anyway; l want prepaid data for a second phone). Assuming that Cingular makes money charging by the kilobyte -- and I think this is a safe assumption -- T-Mo is losing out on some prepaid customers who might want to pay a bit for data, too.

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