Hi -- I just bought me a Lenovo Tab 4 8" Plus, and very nice it is too.  What I wanted was data, so I put a Skinny sim in for testing purposes, and data works fine.  I knew it didn't do phone calling (I didn't need that), but I find it does text fine too (which seems a little odd since it doesn't function as a phone).  

However, it peeves me that I have to buy minutes, in every plan I have looked at, in order to get data--and never use them (and ever have them carrying over...)

Really, I just want data.  Is there nothing out there that just provides that?