tpatterson wrote: I went into a store yesterday to buy a Note 2. We were at the cash register, swapping SIM's when the sales person says, "Oh, yeah.  So you'll forfeit your unlimited data plan if you take the subsidized price on the phone."

This change went into effect June 2012; there are numerous (as you can imagine) threads about it on this forum if you want to do a search.

If you want to keep unlimited data (at least for now), do not sign a new two-year contract; your choices are:

• pay full retail price for the phone
• buy your phone from somewhere like ebay or swappa
• upgrade another line on your account, then move the phone to the line with the unlimited data
• add a line to your account and order the phone at a subsidized price, then put a basic phone on that line (and drop the data plan) and move the new phone to your line

And if you haven't already heard, there's also now a $30 upgrade fee that went into effect last spring.