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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
I just read recently that no cell phones sold by any of the US carriers have WiFi on them. You have to buy the Nokia phone from them direct to get WiFi. The US carriers do not want WiFi on the phones because they want to lock you into a big data plan.
Well, T-Mobile solved this issue by removing the Edge/GPRS only data plan ($20/month) and replaced it with a Wifi/Edge/GPRS plan for $30/month. This is half of what Cingular charges for unlimited data only on the GPRS/EDGE network.

T-mobile is also planning on rolling out a new cell phone/VOIP phone which will connect to wifi networks when in range.
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