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ATT combining text plan with LTE phone upgrades w/grandfathered unlimited data

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I was upgrading the wife's ip3 which has the grandfathered unlimited data plan, to a Samsung Galaxy S II(its her choice not mine) I noticed three new offerings on the data plan options.

$29.99 unlimited data with 200 messages

$33.99 unlmited data with 1500 messages

$42.50 unlimited data with unlimited messages

(edit had wrong amount and forgot to mention I have a $15% discount)


Just for fun I put in an iphone 4s for the upgrade and the above options disapeared. Has anyone seen this before?
 
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Biff... said:
I was upgrading the wife's ip3 which has the grandfathered unlimited data plan, to a Samsung Galaxy S II(its her choice not mine) I noticed three new offerings on the data plan options.

$29.99 unlimited data with 200 messages

$33.99 unlmited data with 1500 messages

$39.99 unlimited data with unlimited messages


Just for fun I put in an iphone 4s for the upgrade and the above options disappeared. Has anyone seen this before?
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What the... 😕

Very strange (and pisses me off that the options aren't available to iPhone users).

Thanks for the heads up though OP, good information to know 🙂
 
Are you able to screenshot this? Not that I don;t believe you, but so I can show this to a rep if they give me a hard time asking about it. I could save myself about $10 a month on my personal line.

By the way, the SGSII is a phenomenal phone. IMO she is making just as good a choice as if she went with the 4S, though many on here would rather die than admit that.
 
This could be for LTE phones only. Not sure
 

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Kyotoma said:
Is she buying the Skyrocket or the stock SII? Therein could be the difference.
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The SII, I called ATT and asked what this plan was. Was told it was a grandfathered plan no longer available. Either way I'll probably go for the 200 messages.
 
Hmm. Now that I think about it, the stock SII's HSPA+ 21.1 and the Skyrocket's LTE in AT&T's eyes are both "4G", even though neither of them actually are.

So it wouldn't really make a difference if it was the Skyrocket or the regular SII.

In any case, that is odd that it shows up yet AT&T told you it's no longer offered. Then again, this IS #ATTFail we are talking about. What an utter mess of a company.
 
Kyotoma said:
Hmm. Now that I think about it, the stock SII's HSPA+ 21.1 and the Skyrocket's LTE in AT&T's eyes are both "4G", even though neither of them actually are.

So it wouldn't really make a difference if it was the Skyrocket or the regular SII.

In any case, that is odd that it shows up yet AT&T told you it's no longer offered. Then again, this IS #ATTFail we are talking about. What an utter mess of a company.
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I also tried the Samsung Note, which is not available yet, but was only offfered the 1500 messages. So each phone gets different offers.
 
Biff... said:
This could be for LTE phones only. Not sure
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LTE plans are different.
I bought a Skyrocket last week.
The Smart Phone Personal plans are for HSPA+ 4G phones. not LTE phones.

I noticed when I upgraded, my grandfathered unlimited plan is not displayed on my account online even though every rep I spoke with said it's on my account.
 

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That's really weird. At first I thought maybe it was an AT&T Wireless plan, but I'm pretty sure all of those have been killed off, maybe something they are testing?
 
BiggAW said:
That's really weird. At first I thought maybe it was an AT&T Wireless plan, but I'm pretty sure all of those have been killed off, maybe something they are testing?
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I thought about the testing as well. This whole thing was a surprise, since this is my first adroid phone(wife's actually) but I get to play with it, I'm thinking this might be AT&T's way of getting support for their android phones.
 
Biff... said:
I thought about the testing as well. This whole thing was a surprise, since this is my first adroid phone(wife's actually) but I get to play with it, I'm thinking this might be AT&T's way of getting support for their android phones.
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No, this has to either be hidden stuff they are trying or a mistake.
 
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No, this has to either be hidden stuff they are trying or a mistake.
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Seems like it only pertains to LTE Smartphones. I settled for the 200 text with the unlimited data. I wonder how long until they pull the texting plan from me, and say that it was a mistake.
 
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