Originally Posted by
spankaveli
i was told by someone that works at cingular that you can get the mediamax 200 and as long as you don't register your imei with them, you can use the data using that plan.

Yes that's the trick, with the rebates and whatnot you have to give up the IMEI and thus you can only sign up for the intended data plan. If you acquire a phone through any other source that you don't need to give the IMEI to Cingular, then you're good to go.