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AT&T Bumps 10 GB Mobile Share Plan to 15 GB for a Limited Time

giantfan1224 said:
I guess what you call price games the industry would call competition. It's fierce right now which is a great thing for the consumer. But there will always be those consumers that will find something to complain about.

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Oh brother. How exactly is the wireless customer getting screwed? They offer a service and you either do or don't agree to pay for said service. It's like you people think these for profit companies owe you something for free!

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Glad someone here gets it.
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If you spent a few days in Europe or Asia I think you would stop apologising for the oligopolists.

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mtneer said:
It will be... as soon as the carriers latch onto the next thing to raise their ARPU's. Now international text messages are free! A few years ago they would snatch your first born to send 100 texts!
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Ten years ago texting was entirely free and has always cost carriers exactly zero to provide. It's just a byproduct of the cellular protocol that they decided to start charging people for when it became popular. It astonished me that people were ok with paying for what had been free.
 
tennisproha said:
lol lets be frank here. AT&T is just playing price games just to be clear. it cost them almost $0 to offer this to customers so its hardly a reason to celebrate or be sympathetic to a mega-corporation. if they really wanted to be that generous, they would've just doubled it to 20gb. next year you'll see them double the double…

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read: based on their competition to Verizon and as a result of losing some customers to said competitor.
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I'm one of those customers. Switched to Verizon after being a customer for over a decade. My phone arrives on Wednesday.
 
tennisproha said:
competition is when a company tries to offer consumers a better service than their fellow rivals in the industry. take car manufacturers as an example strictly of competition.

this here is simply a duopoly. how does today's announcement offer AT&T as a better service than Verizon? what updates did they do to their infrastructure that enabled them to give us a measly 5 GB more for free simply out of the kindness of their heart? it's simply an illusion.

oh we lost a few thousand customers; let's get them back with this string…

PS. yes we have sprint and tmobile but they are simply too small right now. tmobile is becoming a force but they are simply a Tesla if compared to the car analogy.
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It's probably not intended to get back the switchers, but to stop the flood gates of potential switchers who were on the fence.
 
Alisstar said:
It's probably not intended to get back the switchers, but to stop the flood gates of potential switchers who were on the fence.
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I agree.

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macfoxpro said:
You're totally missing the point. They are not trying to be "generous". It is a marketing strategy for business...nothing more, nothing less. Why does everyone hate a business that supplies a product that you decide wethere you want or not?
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true it's a marketing strategy but it's only b/c they are being forced to b/c of recent competition.

I guess I'm just trying to make the point that AT&T is just a sleazy mega-corp. a point I can't seem to translate properly from thought to paper right now apparently lol.
 
You can call retentions and ask for 20GB and pay the same as for 10GB. Just say you saw an ad from Sprint doubling the Data and you're wondering if ATT is offering the same thing. Worked for me..
 
Moshe1010 said:
You can call retentions and ask for 20GB and pay the same as for 10GB. Just say you saw an ad from Sprint doubling the Data and you're wondering if ATT is offering the same thing. Worked for me..
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A lottery winner can also say that playing the lotto worked for him/her. ;)
 
turbocamel said:
The whole fan discount on the new mobile share plans is a joke.
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really? My 15% FAN discount on the 20GB plan would have dropped me to $85/month for 2 phones. Right now, the 15GB (30GB) plan has me at $110, which would normally be $130. I'd take a sub-$100 bill for the plan anytime.

BL.
 
Since I had the 10gig plan, I went to AT&T and tried signing up for this yesterday. Found out it was not effective until today. Went onto the website this morning and had no issues upgrading to 15 Gig.

One day I will get enough gigs to finally drop internet service through Comcrap. I can't wait for that day to come!
 
bradl said:
really? My 15% FAN discount on the 20GB plan would have dropped me to $85/month for 2 phones. Right now, the 15GB (30GB) plan has me at $110, which would normally be $130. I'd take a sub-$100 bill for the plan anytime.

BL.
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My 21% FAN for 10gb Shared Data on 5 lines was around $179 a month. My Tmobile plan with 12.5gb Data (though limited to 2.5gb per line) is about $142 a month. Even with my discount I was paying around $37 more per month for slower Data (I'm pulling around 11mbps down in LA on Tmo while I was getting about 8 on At&t) and unlimited music streaming.

While you get "more data" on At&t, you either A. won't get close to 20gb or B. go over and get dinged the $15.

While I have slightly better reception with At&t, the savings of $400 a year is more worth it to me.

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I just did the math... your $85 is just for Data (15% off of $100)... don't you also pay $15 per line for the phone service itself? That's $115 a month before taxes after your discount. You're paying closer to $135-145 a month depending on how you're taxed in your state. $110 is what I pay for 5 lines on T-Mo all in before taxes.
 
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I couldn't upgrade my plan to the 15GB one through the website, but I was able to upgrade it through the myAT&T app. Just a head's up for those trying to get in on this deal.
 
What carriers are doing is they want you to pay $100+ per phone every month, so they are just giving you all this data that you don't need to make the price seem justified. It's like when stores say "buy 1 get 1 half off" instead of "buy 1 for 25% off". I'd rather spend $26/month per phone and only have the data that I need.
 
tennisproha said:
competition is when a company tries to offer consumers a better service than their fellow rivals in the industry. take car manufacturers as an example strictly of competition.

this here is simply a duopoly. how does today's announcement offer AT&T as a better service than Verizon? what updates did they do to their infrastructure that enabled them to give us a measly 5 GB more for free simply out of the kindness of their heart? it's simply an illusion.

oh we lost a few thousand customers; let's get them back with this string…

PS. yes we have sprint and tmobile but they are simply too small right now. tmobile is becoming a force but they are simply a Tesla if compared to the car analogy.
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No, no one is saying they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They're a for-profit business. They're looking to maximize profits as best they can. And you can call it a duopoly all you want but T-Mobile and Sprint are able to put pressure on the big two to force some of the deals we're seeing now. All good for the consumer.

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iolinux333 said:
If you spent a few days in Europe or Asia I think you would stop apologising for the oligopolists.
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I certainly wouldn't call myself an apologist. One thing I do know is that I'm saving about $100 a month over what I was paying a year ago. That makes me more than a little excited and announcements like this tell me we're likely not done.
 
Was waiting for this. Just switched from 10-->15gigs online. Wife and kids will be happy.
 
Got mine upgraded to 15GB through the website. That puts me at an $87 15GB plan ($100-23%) + $15/phone. With unlimited text and calling along with data tethering included, this plan works very well for my family now, and it's good to have a little more data padding.
 
This is a great deal. I just went from 6GB to 15GB for just $10 more per month. The cost for the data plan went from $70 (6GB) to $100 (15GB). However, the cost of the three lines on my business plan decreased as follows:

  • My line (iPhone on 2-year contract): $40 to $35 (-$5)
  • 2nd line (iPhone out of contract): $25 to $15 (-$10)
  • 3rd line (basic flip-phone): $20 to $15 (-$5)
So the cost of my Mobile Share data plan went up by $30, but my per-line charges decreased by $20.

$10 extra for more than double the amount of data? I'll take it!
 
macintologist said:
What carriers are doing is they want you to pay $100+ per phone every month, so they are just giving you all this data that you don't need to make the price seem justified. It's like when stores say "buy 1 get 1 half off" instead of "buy 1 for 25% off". I'd rather spend $26/month per phone and only have the data that I need.
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Or quite a few people actually use up a good amount of data and this helps.
 
I have been playing a lot with these prices and with the 15% FAN it costs the same to be on 6GB vs 10GB and now 15 GB since the discount applies to a larger portion of the bill with reduced handset fees at 10/15GB. Two iPhones and a flip phone. All are off contract. I took advantage of the promotion last March to knock a brand new iPhone 5c to mobile share value and bought an iPhone 6 off contract unlocked. I pay $15 for each phone, flip phone included. Overall I'm happy with AT&T for this. I'm a huge fan of TMo but I pay extra for the network. Thanks John Legere for improving the industry and driving prices down.
 
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