canceling data plan

[Dan57]

Newbie here. First time poster, so please go easy on me. I just bought my Q yesterday at the kiosk inside Circuit City. It was $50 after a $50 mail-in rebate including my $100 two year upgrade.

Anyway, I was very specific with the salesman. I told him I am NOT interested in the data plan; I only plan to use the Q as a phone and a PDA to do calendar and contacts.

The salesman advised me to sign up for the data plan, and then cancel it after a month. He assured me that I would be able to cancel the data plan. He specifically told me that this is a "feature" not a contractual obligation. He repeated used the word "feature" and another salesperson confirmed.

I read the contract as carefully as I could. I did not see that I was obligated to retain the data feature. I definitely don't want it, because it adds some $40 to the monthly bill for something I will not use.

So, my question to the experts. Does this sound right? I am concerned that I will be locked into this data plan. If that is the case, I would rather pay the $100 extra up front and not be obligated to pay for the monthly data plan.

Has anyone succesfully canceled the data plan? Any help appreciated. Thanks.

[dima]

My Q would be virtually worthless to me w/o a data plan (I'd cancel voice service first) but I believe this can be done without a problem but if you do cancel be sure to have them put a data block on it so you won't rack up horrendous data charges from spurious data traffic. Also I think MMS pix messaging is dependent on data plans, though SMS (texts) is not.