I will happily announce that for all of you clinging to the Unlimited Data plan, it will still grandfather over to the 5S. I upgraded from a 5. I did a full subsidized upgrade (paid 299 for my 32gb)
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AT&T iPhone 5S Grandfathered Unlimited Data!
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Honestly I use about 1 GB a month of my unlimited, so it would be silly for AT&T to get rid of the grandfather status.
How did you get the fully subsidized price instead of the early upgrade price ($550 for 32gb) if upgrading from iPhone 5 (just a year ago).
Thanks for the news but we all knew that and were upgrading for years while keeping our unlimited iPhone data plan on AT&T.
What?
Why would you think it would go away. I have changed phones with ATT several times and there is no question about keeping my unlimited plan.
But you realize that the unlimited data is capped at 5GB for LTE speeds, right?
You will be back to att in no time like many others if this happens. T mobiles network is complete garbage in most areas. Don't you read the forums?
Keep in mind you are being spoiled right now with the fastest lte network in the US.
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No it's not! At least not in Seattle. I go over it ALL the time and will happily provide screenshots. They don't throttle me and a ton of other people I know with att in Seattle.
I'm in Seattle, about 10 minutes from to mobile headquarters, and everyone with t mobile here says its horrible. But yeah, Maybe it's good in your area but people usually won't admit the service sucks when they switched in frustration etc.
I dont understand this plan, i have 4s, 3g i go through 5-6gb monthly, sometimes I get throttled at 4-5gb, sometimes I never do, one month I got throttled at 3gb. I think its area specific and how much data people are using, if the towers are free i think they throttle less. 2 years and i've been throttled like 3 times? annoying when it does, but so rarely that i dont really care. is edge faster than 3g or no? so if your throttled on lte, maybe it will be 3g speed still
Not capped. It begins throttling at 5GB. You still have unlimited data, aka no overage charges.
That's not really saying much. You can do 163GB a month stuck at their 0.5Mb throttling speed.
Trust me, I would notice the speed throttling because it's happened to me before back when the 5 came out. When it first came out, everyone is playing with their toys and clogging the network. I think they throttled early on to allow everyone the ability to even use the network. Then, as people got used to it and stopped consuming so much, they slowly brought it back to normal.
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Seattle, but I have no issues anywhere in this state.
