That’s a prepaid plan. You can’t finance or lease phones and if you get a phone on promotion with them you’re probably locked for two years. Contracts still exists, they’re just not on the plans.
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AT&T Ends Data Throttling for Unlimited Elite Customers, Adds 40GB Hotspot Data and 4K HBO Max
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Clearly, you think a lot of people from AT&T hang out here to talk up their product line.
But are you saying that YOU THINK that two lines on a 12GB Mobile Share plan for $106 is a good deal?
I'm just presenting the opposite side of what they're saying, how come I get flack for that?
and they don't get criticized for their poorly thought point?
For only $12 more a line they go from 12GB to unlimited on a higher priority plan? How is that not a better deal?
Plus they get 40GB of hotspot per line and some free HBO Max too...
Just because they don't want to pay any more, that's not a lousy deal.
Obviously, if they don't want those features it's an idiotic choice FOR THEM.
But that doesn't make it a lousy deal.
To answer the question, I teach second grade and we spend time talking about both sides of topics so that the kids aren't always being crtitical (i.e. "I don't want that, so it must be lousy").
How often do you switch cell phone companies that this is actually an issue?
I think I've been using cell phones for 24 years and I've switched carriers twice.
Think of all the promotions/discounts I would have missed out on if I would have worried about that?
Even if I had broke a contract those two times, I'd still be way ahead.
I had one of those original ATT unlimited plans and when I had to travel to Europe for work, ATT talked me into an updated unlimited plan in order to get the Europe data/phone plan for one week. Big mistake. The new unlimited plan they suckered me into was throttled at the get go. It was awful. I ended up changing to a non throttled 5gb plan.
I still have the original unlimited plan for my iPad and will hold on to that one.
The newer Unlimited plans have been better since early 2017. Often cheaper too.
For 1 phone line that will be $75 on Unlimited Elite (after multi-line, autopay/paperless, and FAN discounts) but before normal fees/taxes (that's the plan plus line/access charges included). You get unlimited prioritized data per line (instead of the 22GB you get), 40GB of hotspot per line, and HBO Max.
With a FAN discount, you can get Unlimited Elite for the price of Unlimited Extra. If you don’t have a FAN you can get one by joining AARP for $16, that works out to $1.25 a month so it's a no brainer. It's $10 a month ($120 more a year) if you don't want to do this.
You get a better discount if the account holder fits in one of these categories: teachers, doctors, nurses, military, veterans, and first responders (25% off), it does not stack with the above, it comes off the regular price.
This chart is from before the Elite changes and incorrectly lists Elite as only having 100GB of prioritized data (now unlimited) and 30GB of hotspot (now 40GB).
You can finance phones directly from Spectrum at 0% interest. Your phone is locked until the phone is paid for.
I honestly don’t know for sure, but you’d be totally surprised how many people get upset or confused when you tell them you’re locked for 2 years due to promotional credits unless you’re paying that phone off. I’m an assistant manager at T-Mobile and sometimes the customers just get frustrated about that.
For instance some prepaid customers from other Carriers paid full price for their phone but want to come to T-Mobile and see if their phone is unlocked, but most prepaid carriers lock their phone until you’ve used there service for 12 months
literally I had a customer come in yesterday had a phone from total wireless for 3 months and paid $250 for that phone, iPhone 7. Called total wireless to see if it could be unlocked and they said to unlock it before the 12 months, there would be a fee of $300. WTF? 😂