'AlwaysOnline Wireless' Debuts New Short-Term Cellular Data Plans for Apple SIM

[Carlanga]

How's that? ATT's (my carrier) least expensive international roaming plan is $30 for 120mb. My math says Always On @ .99/15MB is less expensive ($15 for 150mb).

Yes but that also includes unlimited texting and $1 per min calls. The other two plans make things even cheaper. Though pay per use its $2 per mb which is 2x as them, but if you really only need it once or twice to check something then it's much easier to keep att sim since besides that you get free receiving texts, you get charged for sending text $0.50 and making and answering calls. Plus you don't have to deal with all the issues or charges of activating iCloud services on the phone.

This service needs to be at least 4x less than what they are charging to break into the market imo.

 

[69650]

The Apple SIM data plans I've seen have all been very poor value for money. Ok for the odd day or two I guess but not for any longer. I wish Apple would get their act together and launch their own MVNO network worldwide. Unlimited calls plus unlimited data anywhere in the world for a fixed monthly price.

 

[Kar98]

That is definitely how they sell it. It isn't technically untrue but I was only getting 2g data speeds in Australia. I called them to complain and they wanted to charge me something like $50 for 500MB. They also wouldn't let me unlock my phone so I could get a local sim card while I was traveling. Pretty raw deal.

Nope, that's how it's advertised, 2G speed, GPRS/EDGE, comparable to dialup. And T-Mobile has just about the most lenient unlocking policy of any carrier in the US.

 

[joshontheweb]

Nope, that's how it's advertised, 2G speed, GPRS/EDGE, comparable to dialup. And T-Mobile has just about the most lenient unlocking policy of any carrier in the US.

That may be how it is advertised somewhere, but that wasn't how it was sold to me at the store. They made it sound like it was a seamless data plan as long as connectivity was available. Not that I would be nerfed to 2g (basically unusable) when even 4g speeds were available.