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If you turn off the data your phone is as good as a dumb phone it can not use data at all unless you are on a wifi network.

> it can not use data at all unless you are on a wifi network.

Which is >95% of the time for me, and many people.

If you turn the data off on say, an iPhone, it's as good as say, an iPod touch with calling capabilities, which is really all a lot of people want.

I would love a phone that only made cell calls and texts and used wifi for everything else. I suspect most people would too.