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Lose your EDGE, save some green
AT&T has reportedly begun offering users a $20 discount if they choose to remove EDGE functionality from their iPhone service plan.
Of course, removing EDGE will prevent you from accessing any of the iPhone's data features in the
absence of a WiFi connection. However, if you're in a situation where you seldom need to use EDGE, you can knock your iPhone bill down to as little as $40 per month.
This will also supposedly disable the visual voicemail functionality from the iPhone as well, so if you're one of those Apple ad types who thinks that visual voicemail ranks just above penicillin on the list of mankind's greatest scientific breakthroughs, you'll want to avoid this.
In fact, unless you're one of the many who are already bound to an iPhone contract, this doesn't seem to be that great of a deal, unless your current phone plan costs $40 a month for 450 daytime minutes (and 5,000 night and weekend minutes).
The rest of us can just keep our current phone service and get an iPod touch that does everything but make calls for $100 less and no monthly fees.
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