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Disabling the iPhone’s EDGE/GPRS data access
Posted 17 August 2007 @ 11am in Guides/How-Tos
For various reasons, you may want to disable the iPhone’s EDGE/GPRS data network access on a temporary basis. For instance, if you have an international data plan and are traveling overseas but only want to use WiFi instead of paying international data charges, or if you are on a prepaid plan and don’t want to incur data charges.An iPhone Atlas reader with the username “amztselos” found out exactly how to do this, and here are his steps, slightly modified:
- Call the International Group at ATT (800) 335-4685: amztselos says “They may tell you that it is impossible to turn off the “data plan†for the IPhone but that is incorrect.” You can.
- Ask the representative enter an SOC code called “NWIX” and then have them go into “Snooper” and remove all GPRS functionality for your device.
amztselos writes:
“This results (at least in Canada) of seeing Rogers Wireless for phone calls but not seeing the ‘E. I confirmed that I could not download email, etc. so data was blocked until I linked to a WiFi network.”Â
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Posted by Anthony M. Kassir MD
21 August 2007 @ 8pm
This would be great for International travelers. A big money saver, apparently.
But once the traveler returns to the USA, can the EDGE/GPRS data access be restored by the ATT representative? Is it just the same procedure, except asking the rep to “add back” all GPRS functionality?
Posted by justin_chung
23 August 2007 @ 2pm
I was told by the AT&T representative that this is meant for the Blackberry and other phones and does not work with the iPhone. However, since the supervisor also told me that the iPhone would “totally break” if data was turned off, I had it done anyway. So far, it hasn’t worked–I’m in Norway and I still have GPRS functionality. Sigh.