As of Feb 15, 2007 if you buy any smartphone at a discounted price through Alltel you are required to sign up for a smartchoice plan and stay on a smartchoice plan for the term of your contract. Theoretically, you can still buy a smartphone at full retail price and have the $29.99 unlimited data plan added like before. There are some reps who don't appear to know this and will tell you it can't be done but you just have to be persistent. I know of 2 people who have done this.
In the OP's situation with his parent's plan I'd probably buy one off eBay or something (it would be cheaper than the full retail through Alltel) and call CS and have it activated and add the unlimited data a few days later if they won't do it at activation.
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