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AT&T Announces New Limited Data Rollover Feature for Mobile Share Value Customers
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This is why I switched to TMobile. I have a man crush on John Legere. He has done so much for this industry. I will deal with slightly less coverage than my old Verizon service to support his brilliant transformation of TMobile.
This is what America is about and you rarely see "real" competition in 2015.
This is what America is about and you rarely see "real" competition in 2015.
Who cares? Contracts for cellphones are outdated. At&t and verizon need to get with the program.
then use the NON-contracts options that AT&T and Verizon ALSO have!
I've got 20 GB of data and only used 3 GB max a month... and now with this...
If you're only using 3, why are you paying for 20?
Screw ATT - This is BS.
ATT does this because 90% of people go no where near their limit.
Find out when your month switches over - The day before, stream Netflix until you are .2gb away from your limit then stop.
Repeat every month and watch ATT take it all away.
ATT does this because 90% of people go no where near their limit.
Find out when your month switches over - The day before, stream Netflix until you are .2gb away from your limit then stop.
Repeat every month and watch ATT take it all away.
Sounds like he is in the same boat as me, probably on the 10GB plan, but got the 20GB increase through a retention loophole.
Now that I have 20GB for the 10GB price my wife and I are now using 8 to 12 GB per month though, not worrying about if on Wifi or not.
If he has the 20GB for the 10GB price I would hold on to that for dear life. as internet speeds get faster and websites get more data intensive we are going to use more and more data in the future, even doing the same task.
A lot of it having to do with increased graphics quality that we are pulling down from webpages.
Because they make you have it.
You obviously don't have ATT. If you switch to a lesser plan, your actual plan costs go up so it is in fact CHEAPER to have the 20GB plan.
We just went through this. All of ATTs plans are seesaws. Reduce your data plan and the plan costs go up and you have less data. Buy the larger data plan and your other plan fees go down.
They do this because you pay more for data they they know you will NEVER actually use.
You obviously don't have ATT. If you switch to a lesser plan, your actual plan costs go up so it is in fact CHEAPER to have the 20GB plan.
We just went through this. All of ATTs plans are seesaws. Reduce your data plan and the plan costs go up and you have less data. Buy the larger data plan and your other plan fees go down.
They do this because you pay more for data they they know you will NEVER actually use.
the way I see this new feature is that.
1) NO BENEFITS, for those that don't go over their data.
2) people that are sometimes go over their data, this is where they see this kicking in, saving them that 10-15$ over charge per GB.
example. 1st month - Family A uses 9gb of 10 gb = 1 gb roll over.
2nd month - Family A uses 10.5 gb = Phewww awesome no overage charge (1gb roll over saved them)
3rd month - Family A uses 10.5 gb = Overage charge hits
4th month - Family A has a family meeting and talks about being careful about using the data.
So overall, it does help the consumers abit. hey we take whatever we can take right
1) NO BENEFITS, for those that don't go over their data.
2) people that are sometimes go over their data, this is where they see this kicking in, saving them that 10-15$ over charge per GB.
example. 1st month - Family A uses 9gb of 10 gb = 1 gb roll over.
2nd month - Family A uses 10.5 gb = Phewww awesome no overage charge (1gb roll over saved them)
3rd month - Family A uses 10.5 gb = Overage charge hits
4th month - Family A has a family meeting and talks about being careful about using the data.
So overall, it does help the consumers abit. hey we take whatever we can take right
Amazing that it took so long for this to happen. We've had roll over minutes for eon's but data.....
Better late than never I guess.
Better late than never I guess.
At&t succeeds again... in being the biggest nickel and diming company I've ever seen...
Talk about lame counter moves.
Talk about lame counter moves.
I'm so over the throttling BS that ATT has been pulling that this is pretty darn enticing to finally make the switch but I'm still not sure if it's worth the few extra dollars the bill will go up for 10 gigs and I'm not sure if I'm a fan of just 1 month of rollover compared to 12 that T-Mobile is offering. It's too bad that ATT isn't offering the 15 for 10 promo they were just doing recently.
It's not so much saying "thanks", but saying "**** you" slightly less hard.
I pay for my GB, FU for telling me when and how I have to use them.
I pay for my GB, FU for telling me when and how I have to use them.
When are the phone companies going to stop stealing from us?
I buy 10Gb of data in a month, at a price that is far higher than in many other countries. If I use only 7Gb, they simply steal the data I paid for.
The next month I use 11Gb, and they hit me with an overage charge. Even if I only used 1Gb a month for a year, and they have stolen 108Gb from me, they will still charge me extra if I go even a Kb over on the 13th month.
It is a disgusting practice, and this move by AT&T is one step ahead of literally the least they could do.
So how about they announce they are not going to steal anymore? A fair price for a decent service, and if I pay for it, I get to keep it until I use it.
Stealing? Really?
If you go to a store and buy a gallon of milk with an expiration date in two weeks, and only drink half of it before it expires, do you accuse the grocery store of stealing from you? No, you would toss it away, and say "Whoops, maybe next time I should buy a half gallon instead so I don't waste any."
You're buying X gigs of data knowing it expires in 30 days. If you consistently have more data than you use, maybe you need to switch to a smaller data plan.
By your measure, many companies steal from us. Like I pay $90 a month to Comcast for unlimited data. When I don't use "unlimited" data, where does it go? It gets stolen from me at the end of the month! Same with ESPN that I almost never watch.
And when I don't fill my trash bin to the top... the garbage company steals empty garbage space!
And water service... unlimited local phone calling... 24 hour gym membership... Amazon Prime. Wow, I never realized I was the victim of so much crime!
Some of us out here in the middle of the country don't have the option to switch to T-Mobile (and have any decent coverage). We are stuck with AT&T or Verizon. But I'm glad T-Mobile is around and pushing the others to do what they should.
That said, this one-month thing is a bit of a joke. Hopefully they will get bad press from it and match T-Mobile.
I was on the 4 GB plan that became 10 GB for less money, then beceame 15 GB for the same money. So I have plenty. In fact, I looked at going down a plan because I don't use that much. But they pretty much have me stuck, because going down in data is the same money as staying where I am.
For those of you complaining about data still being expensive, remember this. I used to get 250 minutes a month for an outrageous amount of money. Then I got a bunch of minutes for less money. Then I got unlimited minutes. Data is in the middle right now. It'll be unlimited in 2 or 3 years, probably thanks to T-Mobile again.
That said, this one-month thing is a bit of a joke. Hopefully they will get bad press from it and match T-Mobile.
I was on the 4 GB plan that became 10 GB for less money, then beceame 15 GB for the same money. So I have plenty. In fact, I looked at going down a plan because I don't use that much. But they pretty much have me stuck, because going down in data is the same money as staying where I am.
For those of you complaining about data still being expensive, remember this. I used to get 250 minutes a month for an outrageous amount of money. Then I got a bunch of minutes for less money. Then I got unlimited minutes. Data is in the middle right now. It'll be unlimited in 2 or 3 years, probably thanks to T-Mobile again.
So we can expect a Verizon announcement in the next few days I suspect. I'm going to have so much rollover data, I might as well have an unlimited plan.
Are you ******** me? Your bitching about something they gave you? You pay for have a certain amount of data each month. That is what you pay AT&T for. Yeah they get to tell you when you have to use it by.
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B...But AT&T is so big and amazing that they don't have to react to T-Mobile.
Guess not.
Good for AT&T customers though.
Guess not.
Good for AT&T customers though.
Here here, I'll second that. How is your coverage BTW? I've been thinking of switching, but I'm not sure because of the coverage thing... and I know they have the test drive thing but... Idk, haven't gotten to it lol