The guys who pitched in the likes on that post should pitch in a few bucks and buy his mom a booster antenna.. and then a 100GB plan.
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AT&T Introduces New Mobile Share Value Plans With More Data
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The guys who pitched in the likes on that post should pitch in a few bucks and buy his mom a booster antenna.. and then a 100GB plan.
This information is somewhat incorrect. I am on the 2GB plan with two devices and am still being billed $40. What gives? Maybe the new pricing has not kicked in yet?
You can remain on your old plan - if you were paying $40 for 2MB before you'll continue to pay that until you call to change.
That said, if you were paying $40 for 2GB you should have called to change to $40 for 3GB when it was available.
Thanks, I did call them and got it changed to $30. Did not know there was a 3GB for $40 but 2GB is enough for me.
See my reply here as to why:
"That's like saying I want to rent this building, but I'm only going to be there 1 day per month. So i'm going to pay you 1/30th of the rent.
Sometimes you don't pay to use the service, but pay for the availability to use the service."
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...s-with-more-data.1907722/page-5#post-21714061
The 3GB plan just went away, but glad you have one that's enough and lower priced!
That analogy doesn't work because in your apartment scenario no one else is using the apartment during the rest of the month. In this case someone isn't using any data on the network when they're not using data on the network, and that capacity is available for someone else to use.
Put differently, why is there a $10 charge for iPad access directly when I could tether it to my iPhone, use the same amount of data indirectly for free?
This just makes me nuts. The last time I called Mexico was in 1961, the last time I called Canada was never, and the last time I texted anything was once every time I get a new phone or a new iOS just to make sure it works.
But I live in a cellular deadzone, so in order not to pay 10c a minute long distance charges on "local" calls outside of my own LOCAL EXCHANGE (which includes two villages and the possibility of maybe also chatting up a bunch of dairy cows and Black Angus hamburgers on the hoof) I have to pay Frontier for a long distance plan bundled into my local landline service, total $40 before the DSL piece which is another $40 or so plus all the fees and taxes.
Then because I definitely do use and want a smartphone for when I'm out and about, I have AT&T to pay every month on top of the Frontier. Even with a min data plan it sure adds up. The AT&T piece is more reasonable now that it used to be, at least until next time I upgrade. So let someone bring a tower over here and Frontier is toast. But see they all know that, so there's no tower coming. It's a club and the turf is divided up to their mutual benefit.
Oops. Just had to put at least two more quarters in my iPod touch fund that collects money every time I whine. Pretty soon I'll be ordering that gear!
Why don't you just call AT&T and ask for a Microcell? They sent me one for free when they found out I was contemplating canceling because I was in a dead zone.
Is there actually service where you live but you just live in a little dead spot? There's no service here for 400 square miles unless you drive up top one of the mountains where you can catch a couple bars in winter anyway. The microcell works with one's WiFi, right? My WiFi is via DSL... so, landline... But if I have some of this wrong, please say so and I'll have another conversation with them.
Yes it works with wifi/your router.
http://www.att.com/att/microcell/
"For best performance, minimum speeds of 1.5Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream are recommended."
My phone would go to "No Service" or constantly drop calls. He couldn't give me the device for free so he credited me the cost of it to my bill. I'd definitely look into it. This was a while ago, but the device wasn't too expensive. It was around around $120-150 and I even got to sell it after they built a new tower.
Was being billed $40 for the 2GB plan but I called and got it reduced to the new $30/month promo plan. I should have known that AT&T would not automatically give me the lower price.
Pretty much the usual scenario for most companies.Was being billed $40 for the 2GB plan but I called and got it reduced to the new $30/month promo plan. I should have known that AT&T would not automatically give me the lower price.
The website will now let you change from the old 15 GB plan to the new one. When the promotion first came online, it wouldn't let you. As far as I can tell, the only difference is the free calls to Mexico/Canada. Everything else is the same.
Interesting that the larger data plans are not listed in the article. That's because instead of offering a discount for more data, AT&T actually charges a higher price (per GB) for the larger data plans.
$30 for 2GB
$50 for 5GB
$100 for 15GB
$140 for 20GB
$175 for 25GB
$225 for 30GB
$300 for 40GB
$375 for 50GB
So the jump from 5GB to 15GB is $50, but the jump from 15GB to 25GB or 20GB to 30GB is $75. Seems backwards to me. I guess I'll be on the $130 30GB promo for a long, long time.
$30 for 2GB
$50 for 5GB
$100 for 15GB
$140 for 20GB
$175 for 25GB
$225 for 30GB
$300 for 40GB
$375 for 50GB
So the jump from 5GB to 15GB is $50, but the jump from 15GB to 25GB or 20GB to 30GB is $75. Seems backwards to me. I guess I'll be on the $130 30GB promo for a long, long time.
Those ATTWS plans weren't announced 11-odd months ago at the time of that OP, but were available for quotes to those who called in last year - maybe you missed that? The data quantities and prices for consumer-liable accounts have been posted for several months now:
https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html
Nevermind the lower device access cost at the higher tiers, or the now-available UL data tiers for DirecTV subs (even the $20 plan...). ATTWS has changed things up in the time since the OP, calling in for alternative options yields more options.