I feel the same way about my unlimited data with Verizon, no worries. Pay bill and keep it moving. They just raised ours too but I'm not giving it up because their service is solid and consistent plus unlimited 4GLTE tethering for $30
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AT&T Again Raising Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
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First of all, there are differences. For one, download speeds are capped at 8 Mbps, so for me that's way too slow. Secondly, I have a sibling who uses Cricket and he's always having dropped calls, and it sounds like he's in a tunnel a lot of times. Also, there was an outage and he had no service for 24 hours without any information from Cricket. As the saying goes, you do get what you pay for....
Then I don't think this applies to you. That is a new plan, not the 7 year old grandfathered plan.
The difference, $29 vs $120 (24 x 5) for the average 2 year iPhone replacement. Monthly charges add up quickly.
2017 and we're still rationing data.
Thank goodness John Legere seems to be changing that at last.
Why not? Do you pay a fixed monthly fee and get unlimited gasoline, electricity, groceries, water, haircuts, coffee, bridge crossings, manicures, or taxi service?
2017 and we're still rationing data.
Thank goodness John Legere seems to be changing that at last.
In 2017 installing new cell towers, planning for system upgrades (like 5G infrastructure) and running a network sill cost companies money.
But data isn't rationed. You can buy as much of it as you'd like just like bread at the grocery store. What TMob does is cute but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. TMob isn't giving anything away. Even TMob has restrictions on the speed of your data. It's not as unlimited as you may think.
Let's compare it to something more relevant... for my in home internet, I pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited data.
I wish I'd switched to T-Mobile years sooner!
Funny, 200 texts per month seemed reasonable back in 2007 when I chose my AT&T plan. Years later, I would be asking new friends without iPhones to download WhatsApp or Viber and scold them for sending one word responses by SMS, or including me on a group text.
Funny, 200 texts per month seemed reasonable back in 2007 when I chose my AT&T plan. Years later, I would be asking new friends without iPhones to download WhatsApp or Viber and scold them for sending one word responses by SMS, or including me on a group text.
After all these years (going on 7 this year), I'm really surprised AT&T has not touched the grandfathered $29.99 unlimited iPad data plan. No price increases, no data caps, no throttling -- they even allowed upgrade from 3G, to HSPA+ and LTE as the devices evolved.
I had the unlimited plan when it came out. But over time it became less useful. First I wanted to tether and then with a wife and kids, family plans with unlimited voice and text became a better deal for us. And with these hike there isn't much of a use case left. And that is sad. I had comcrap service for a while and had always hoped that a one of the big telcos would figure out how to price things so that I could do everything through them and get rid of internet service through the cable provider. Maybe someday, Tmob will do it.
It's not just the $5. We already absorbed a $5 increase last year. Now another 5 makes it 10 x 12 months is 120/year more for the same service that was promised for "life".
What's wrong with paying for what you consume?
I suspect your monthly fee for "unlimited data" is laden full of profit to account for the the largest consumers - with moderate and low usage customers getting screwed.
I did the same move to TMO for the 6S plus and have 0 regrets. Really wanted to tether so i can use my laptop or iPad on the train. I first went with a pre-paid sim in my old 5S to test the coverage and speed. I was in NJ commuting to NYC at the time and now mainly stay in NJ. During my testing the speeds smoked ATT and VZ. Recent trips to Denver and Vermont the coverage wasn't terrible and easy to overlook since i have ATT out of my live and a reasonable charge per month. When the 7 launched we switched my wife over and reduced my plan to 6GB to match. Fortunately we were able to put her on the same plan and not the newer plans. We now spend less than 100 per month and very happy. We used to be about $180 with ATT.
Wow at&t bravo.. That's crazy to me that they are doing that to people who were grandfathered. AT&T you may loose many customers because of your devious ways!!
Some more applicable services might be television (I can watch as much as I want for a fixed monthly cost), home internet (unlimited data), Google Play Music (unlimited music per month), Netflix (unlimited shows per month), Hulu (same as Netflix), my gardener will mow an unlimited number of blades of grass (although there are a finite number in my yard), etc. Your examples are not generally sold as a fixed monthly fee.
How do you know if he has a new or old unlimited plan? I bought a new iPhone 6S under 2-year contract from AT&T and kept using my Legacy Unlimited Plan.
What Verizon said they're doing (when this was new news) was making the line fee go up from $20 to $40 for those in a contract & unlimited customers. My plan was an altel plan so my line fee was originally $10 & it wasn't effected by that price hike either. $30 for data + $10 for my line = $40 for unlimited data/text, and 2000 minutes (never use that).
Only one of these two administrations fought for net neutrality, while the other and his team of lobbyists wants to end it.
Therefore, to retort your argument; even though no one administration can keep these mega conglomerates fully in line, there's no way you can honestly deny that Trump's crew will turn many blind eyes to any of AT&T/Telco/FCC's agendas.
That still beats Verizon with their single increase of $20/month (IIRC).
First Verizon, now AT&T, next .... I'm sure the timing of this isn't related at all to Trump's about to take office, and that the FCC is going to get large funding cuts and new "leadership". Nah, can't have anything to do with that.