Data only plan on old iPhone

About 97% of places I walk into have public wifi so just food for thought.

Thanks for your illuminating reply. Did you consider that I plan to go to the 3% of places that don’t have public WiFi?

Mint and T-Mobile both sell SIMs designed for tablets. All of the majors seem to, but just go to your preferred carrier and look for tablets or devices.

ETA: Caveat, I don't know how old the phone is, but make sure to check if it accepts e-SIMs or not, that is going to limit your options if you can't use an e-SIM.

ETA2: I know the Mint page is for "phones" but they're an example how how you can even get voice you're not going to use. Voice and SMS are so low value to carriers these days it's kind of a throw away (except for international.)

Most big store chains sell data plans

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ETA2: I know the Mint page is for "phones" but they're an example how how you can even get voice you're not going to use. Voice and SMS are so low value to carriers these days it's kind of a throw away (except for international.)

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Part of that is each device still requires a phone number to access the network. You can have a data only plan, but they still have to give you a new cellular number to go with the plan. I can remember using a prepaid hotspot and being able to log in to the settings and saw a page for sending and receiving text messages using the hotspot’s number.