Even if you were on a carrier like AT&T (so your dumb phone would have a SIM card), if you moved your SIM to a smartphone, I'm pretty sure they have ways of detecting the move and sticking you with that lovely data plan anyway.
US carriers usually take the position that if you want to use a smartphone, a data plan is mandatory.
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