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AT&T Introduces New Data Plans Without Overage Charges

Moorepheus said:
Yep, I can see all everyone's point about this. I am not saying it won't be different for people. I just know in my family situation, Me and my better half have iPhones 6s (mines a plus and hers is not). She also has an iPad Air. She will never use both at the same time and she will always have her iPhone on her, even with her iPad. So, it only made since to get the non-cellular model. Once I showed her how to tether her iPad, she was tickled pink. Also with the amount of time she uses the iPad tethered to her iPhone is only when we are on the road, I am not too concerned about battery life on either device. I do agree there are going to be cases where you want a cellular version of a tablet, but to me, it's just a waste of $120 a year, but not to others, and that is cool. Just thought I would bring it up.
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I'd love to tether my S6E+ to my Tab 4 but I'm in the Unlimited plan that doesn't allow tethering:/
 
Le Big Mac said:
They have these plans now that allow tethering . . . .;)
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Rayfire said:
I believe he's referring to the unlimited data plan from AT&T to allow tethering; and we are aware that other plans allow the hotspot feature as well.
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Rayfire is correct. Now, I wish AT&T would roll out these new retention plans already! I wonder if there's some tweaking going on behind the scenes...

I doubt it, though. If the new MSA plans have no overages, there's no reason for them to revise the allotments downward.
 
Rayfire said:
I believe he's referring to the unlimited data plan from AT&T to allow tethering; and we are aware that other plans allow the hotspot feature as well.
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Yes, yes . . . I figured that. Just making a point that you have to make a choice - unlimited or tethering, but not both.
 
Le Big Mac said:
Yes, yes . . . I figured that. Just making a point that you have to make a choice - unlimited or tethering, but not both.
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Which is why we're hoping that AT&T would follow T-mobile and combine limited tethering to their unlimited data plan.
 
I know this is an older thread & probably one of the worst days to ask anything unrelated to the iPhone 7 (damn my S upgrade cycle!) but worth a shot:

I was thinking of switching from my current 15gb plan to the new 16gb Mobile Share Advantage; it would only cost us $2 more/month for the extra gig of data and it would be nice not to worry about overages. Our average use is ~13-14gb/month but sometimes we cut it really close and occasionally incure an overage or two. I was ready to pull the trigger but the warning about certain things not working if they slow our speed made me gun-shy. I get that YouTube/audio streaming might not work and that's fine but what about things like the Twitter app, Instagram, web browsing, web connected apps, and sending photos via iMessage? My husband runs his vinyl record business exclusively via eBay, would his email and access to the app be super slow and annoying? We're on wifi at home but I don't have wifi at work and am a twitter/Instagram/iMessage junkie and we're in the car/out of wifi range a lot on weekends. What do you guys think, how limiting is the slower speed really?
 
If your overages are only occasional and minor, then it's what $15 if you go over for another 1GB? Seems like $2 more/month, with the risk of slowdowns, isn't worth that.
 
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