I paid $30 a month for edge unlimited data when the iPhone was introduced. 10 years later, I will have to pay $40 a month for LTE unlimited data. I'm ok with that.
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AT&T Again Raising Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans
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Yea. I switched two years ago and have easily saved $2,000. Stopped paying for data for ipads. Now have hotspot to use in car and hotels. Never get near our 20gb data.
Want to know why they raise the rates? Multiple scenarios, but there are so many folks that will pay extra to keep their unlimited. Everyone I know with unlimited never goes over a few gb, but they will NEVER, EVER give up their unlimited.
Go figure.
Once the price change goes into effect.
Remember they don't prorate so don't do it at the beginning of your cycle.
And you're going to want to port over to Cricket temporarily IF you're wanting to keep using your phones, BECAUSE your phone will be locked until you pay your final bill. Which won't even come for a few weeks after you cancel. You won't even be able to check the bill on-line if you cancel all your lines because you won't be a customer (I'm not even sure if it would help if you still had active lines).
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I hated giving mine up, but I usually used 3GB (5GB tops). Now I pay way less, I've got 20GB for the 3 of us 3GB for each of them and the rest for me! And I can tether my MacBook, iPad or Kindle!
Best thing I ever did with my plan!
Agreed! Another thing I don't understand....the unlimited plan was based on att subsidizing a new phone every two years. Since there's no more contract phone discounts, isn't that more pure profit for att. Why do they need to raise the rate when they are already saving that money!
They can charge whatever they want, the market will bear it so they'll keep it.
I'm shocked they just haven't canceled it...
Maybe once they get the price high enough, they'll start offering it again!
But if people are paying the $18.75 (hidden) phone subsidy, and $5 last year and $5 this year, then they'll keep raising it! plus they don't get other features like Mexico & Canada Roaming and free DirectTV streaming.
I bet 4 grandfathered unlimited lines cost is getting pretty close to the cost of the current unlimited plan for 4 lines, even including the price of DirecTV.
Plus they can stream DirecTV over the data plan (but then you can do that for free with a 1GB plan too!).
I'd watch a series of 60 minute long documentaries on the state of phone networks in America.
Wrong x 100.
I HAVE T-Mobile and have the phone on me right now. I'm sitting at SFO international terminal, one of the busiest terminals in the country. I currently have 1 bar, and it's 4G, not LTE. There's no actual data, it's just a single smoke and mirror bar. I have to use wifi to call or send a message. I have 3 lines on TMO and 9 lines with ATT. I am well aware of the differences.
T-Mobile is still slightly a better value. But if you sell me a poisonous lobster it doesn't have any more value than a gold fish for food.
Seems like a lot of people who have switched are trying to justify their moves to themselves, or those who don't qualify for ATT credit etc etc (evidence through users past post searches).
But hey, if TMO works for you, more power to ya. Both have dismal ratings with the FTC, Department of Consumer Affairs, and BBB, but the difference is TMO's are almost all on quality of service, whereas ATT is customer service.
To maximize profits they would cancel the unlimited all together There is so much Wi-Fi around me that I rarely exceed 2 GB per month of usage.
Seems like part of the idea there is that these are old plans that haven't been offered in quite a while and they would like to see people move away from them rather than make it easier for them to remain on them.
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It is no longer advertised, but you can still renew the contract if you are an existing contract customer. I bought a subsidized iPhone 6S ($199 with a 2-year contract).
So rather than appreciate their longtime customers (who've been paying for longer to help grow their smartphone network) and who tend to use less while paying for more, AT&Ts corporate response is to see if they can squeeze them more. If that's how they treat their most loyal customers, everyone else means nothing to them.
The number of new AT&T iPhone customers has increased exponentially since the unlimited data plans went away. The overwhelming vast majority are not on these grandfathered plans, which makes it a very petty move in regards to their bottom line. It's just a dick move, and twice inside a year? A total unnecessary F. U. to some core customers. It's a lucky thing they are regulated (aka government protected) industry.
Nope. Have a contract on one line until 9/2017. Upgraded with new two year plan right when they stopped offering them and got a discounted phone.
I guess it's better complain about being in contract than just suck it up and leave. Especially with the pay your ETF promotions. You poor chained cellphone user.
I'm not to upset. The past few months, since the iPhone 7 was released, my monthly bill has been $11 less a month than what I've been paying the past couple years. I upgrade every time a new iPhone is released and last year I had the 6s Plus with 128GB. This year I stayed with the same amount of memory for my 7 Plus. Using the Next plan the monthly amount is less. So now if my data goes up $5/mo, I'm still ahead $6/mo. I just wish there was some way to persuade AT&T to add hotspot capability to the UDP, particularly in light of these recent rate increases.
It's interesting just the other day there was article about a Verizon price increase, now there's some AT&T price increase. Now this has to do with old unlimited plans as opposed to upgrade fees. It is weird though how they always almost immediately follow each other with price increases. As I said in another post though I'm mainly with Verizon because of the phone promotions I got with them and if I left I'd lose that. I don't really use much data so a move to t-mobile it wouldn't actually save me much if any money. Probably would cost more because of losing the phone promos.
I got a 7 plus 128 GB for $20 a month over 24 months during a promotion they had before Christmas, that's like ~$16-17 off the regular price. That was a REALLY great deal and only around a week or so I'm glad I got it. Obviously if you leave you lose the promo. I also did the $650 trade in for a 6s to a 7 last September, I'd also lose that. There was also a deal on a iPhone SE with Best Buy for $9.99 a month, now that's not after bill credits so it can be paid off anytime and it still ends up only being $240 total regardless. Basically right now with Verizon I have new iPhones on all 3 of my lines and I'm only ending up paying around $34 in total device payment fees for all 3 of them combined.
I got a 7 plus 128 GB for $20 a month over 24 months during a promotion they had before Christmas, that's like ~$16-17 off the regular price. That was a REALLY great deal and only around a week or so I'm glad I got it. Obviously if you leave you lose the promo. I also did the $650 trade in for a 6s to a 7 last September, I'd also lose that. There was also a deal on a iPhone SE with Best Buy for $9.99 a month, now that's not after bill credits so it can be paid off anytime and it still ends up only being $240 total regardless. Basically right now with Verizon I have new iPhones on all 3 of my lines and I'm only ending up paying around $34 in total device payment fees for all 3 of them combined.
This isn't the original ATT. It's some company like Cellular One who renamed themselves when they bought out some part of ATT years ago.
Out of interest (based in the U.K. here) if you've a legacy AT&T plan on a SIMO plan and buy, say, iPhone 7 direct from Apple-how much do you pay monthly?
The comments here are absolutely hilarious. If half of them were true AT&T would have gone bankrupt years ago. But they, along with “evil” Verizon, continue to grow subscribers don’t they. Everybody has an axe to grind against some carrier. For every AT&T hater there’s a T-Mobile hater, a Sprint hater, a Verizon hater. Do you asshats really think your opinions have any effect on anything?
Why do people complain about this? Obviously if people are still paying for it, they think the service worth the price. If AT&T can raise the price, it means their current price is still not high enough.
Imagine the other way around. If a company wants to increase your wages, would you complain that it will cost the company more money, or would you glad fully accept it? Same thing.
Imagine the other way around. If a company wants to increase your wages, would you complain that it will cost the company more money, or would you glad fully accept it? Same thing.
my reasons for not going Cricket:
1. Customer service
....a. Cricket store fronts are only for new customer sign-ups not problems
2. Capped bandwidth set at 8mbps on LTE versus competition (currently reaching 40 - 70mbps+)
3. When a tower gets congested most MVNOs are treated with lower priority
4. $30/mo = 1GBs, $40/mo = 2.5GBs
Here in Phoenix Cricket was barely acceptable until they went with ATT.
ATT prepay (with autopay) is $40/mo for 4GBs with no caps on download speed, treated better as a customer, can walk into any ATT store for help, etc. Unless I was a true penny pincher only then the $30/mo on Cricket would be the deal to steal.
edit: realized ATT upped my monthly data to 4GB after the new year. Yay!
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Unfortunately on my town in South Florida only AT&T works 5/5 and T-Mobile is impossible to use 0/5 or 1/5 so I have to stay with AT&T. And when I travel internationally I need to have T-Mobile because of tethering and they offer free roaming internationally (AT&T roaming prices are horrible). I'm dreaming of the day when AT&T will have reasonable roaming rates and offer tethering, or even better that T-Mobile would improve coverage in our area. Sadly it's not happening, so I end up paying twice. I'm staying with AT&T Grandfathered Unlimited in the hope of having one day low roaming prices and tethering allowed, but it looks like I am doing this in vain.