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AT&T Again Raising Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
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You have too many zeros in that number.
Copy and paste from cricket site
High-Speed Data Access*
Up to 4G LTE speeds with compatible phone. Speeds reduced after high-speed data allowance is used.
People will complain but in all honesty every American cell phone company sucks.
While it's the second price increase in 1 year, is it also true that it's second in 10 years (or so) as well?
Why can't they? Do you have some kind of signed multi-year or indefinite contract with them?
LOL What? In response to complaints you said
How is that not justifying the price increase by comparing it to a competitor that had a larger price increase?
Agreed. The despicable part is that it's all electronic services, so it is all set up already.
They have no raw material increases, labor increases that apply to this set up, so they clearly want and will increase this as often as possible to flush out us unlimited users.
But, most consumers are savvy enough these days that when we switch it will not be to their plans. It will be Cricket, Straight Talk, T-mobile etc.
I hope you don't expect that to last either. AT&T already has a cap of 600GB.
I still have the UDP, it wasn't for life, it was for the life of the contract.
I went to one of their prepaid plans since I got done with my contract. 8GB of data (throttled after that) for $55/month after signing up for autopay.
I wanted to go T-Mobile but I have a co-worker that has nothing but bad things to say about the service, so this is a good alternative. I get good coverage for a price I'm comfortable with.
It's a simple observation that says Verizon was even worse about it. It doesn't say anything about it not being bad or justifying anything or anything like that. You reading something into it doesn't mean that that something is actually there. LOL indeed.
Does everybody in your community get unlimited resources that you described above at a fixed monthly cost?
Or do you get some of yours due to age or renting your home/apt, or from an other subsidy?
No. They also raised it in 2008. (http://appleinsider.com/articles/08...iphone_plans_compared_cost_increases_detailed)
I feel like I am missing another hike, but I can't remember it.
I switched to FIOS from Xfinity specifically because FIOS does not have a cap on their data. Xfinity was a 250GB/mo soft cap at the time when I switched. Go over their cap too many times and they will ban you from all of their services for a year.
A lot of us are on AT&T because we switched way back during iPhone exclusivity, and haven't gone through the hassle of switching out since.
So what was your point if not to deflate the poster? Why bring up competitors practice if it is irrelevant?
Everybody in my community has the option to have unlimited, but they may choose to pay per use. For people that don't live here all year round or have small households it may be cheaper to pay per usage.
I am on FIOS... no cap. Switched from Xfinity because they had a 250GB cap when I switched.
From the electric company. They look at average usage over the year and then bill you the same each month. At the start of the next year they send me a letter telling me what the next years flat rate is, at which time I can choose to take it or pay per usage.
I'm not someone who often jumps in to defend corporations, but I really get a kick out of the complaints when the price on unlimited data goes up. It's as if some huge social injustice has occurred. When you signed up for your plan you didn't enter some kind of agreement that the plan will never go away or that the cost is fixed indefinitely. The fact that AT&T grandfathers anyone at all is a generosity on their part (although some localities might have laws on this - I can't be sure without research). The cost of most unlimited services goes up over time. AT&T has every right to charge whatever they want for their services, if you don't like that, leave like you keep threatening to do. They really will not miss you. Honestly, the fact that you are getting UNLIMITED data everywhere you go at LTE speeds for $40 a month should thrill you.