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AT&T Launches $60 'Unlimited' Prepaid Plan as T-Mobile Raises Throttling Minimum to 30GB
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lol.. my brother, wife and I just switched from att to t-mobile. 26 and change for each of us for unlimited everything. so far I haven't had any trouble with my service and I travel all over god's green earth for work. Also, got the free iPhone 7's they offered up until yesterday for making the switch. feels like i hit the jackpot, but i think it's more like i left the rubbish heap.
So you can have unlimited, but only at 3G speeds? Is the year 2008?
Zzzz. Left ATT last month and so far no issues at all and certainly no regrets. Plus T-Mob Tuesdays have gotten me two free PPV movies and a free pizza. Not too shabby.
I just don't understand the 128k throttling. Is that REALLY necessary? AT&T LTE speeds are regularly 40 Mbps (for me at least). Couldn't they throttle it to, say, 1 Mbps? Wouldn't that be at least reasonable to allow people to continue using it for the rest of the month? 128k is not just slow, it is arguably unusable for many things, which violates the principle of Unlimited.
My biggest issue right now with AT&T is these new unlimited plans really do not save you any money and give you more, but more money for slight more options. Went into the AT&T store the other day to look at the plans, and get price points for the new plans, vs what I have now, which includes my corporate discount of 23% off the total bill. To my dismay, the new plans do not give you the corporate discounts anymore, and was going to be $40.00 more than what I am paying for on my old plan. The only difference with my plans was the data, instead of 15GB I would get unlimited or as I like to call it 22GB plan, and for 40.00 more, yeah no. It is my opinion AT&T is trying to phase out any discounts on their phone plans these day. Maybe time to switch after 20 years with them.
If you have ever received a bill for $300 in overages for them you would understand why.
I for one appreciate these articles. Fairly in-depth coverage of these mobile wars. Macrumors is my go to source to find out more information.
If you don't care for these articles then keep on scrolling.
Is it just me, or are all of these plans/prices just getting confusing. Seems like every day they are coming up with something new. Just give me what I need without completely ripping me off... pretty simple.
I honestly think Cricket is the best deal in wireless right now for plan pricing. Where I live AT&T has the best coverage and I'm paying a fraction of the cost for better Unlimited!
Most of the news here isn't "MAC" news...there are very few newsbits about Mac's anymore. It's all iPhones, watches, apps, Apple, politics, etc.
Yep my grandfathered plan is great
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So true.
In Canada at least, the caps are crap.
My plan is 6GB shared between three devices (wife's phone, my phone, and tablet) and it's $120. It's only gotten worse. Unlike in the US, while newer technologies (HSPA to LTE) have made spectrum use more efficient, we haven't seen any kind of bump in caps. It'd be nice if we got an annual bump in data or something, but we don't.
If it's Apple-related in some way, seems like it can be fitting for a site like this.
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AT&T today introduced a new GoPhone prepaid plan with unlimited talk, text, and data at a max speed of 3 Mbps for $65 per month, or $60 with AutoPay enabled. However, unlike AT&T's new $90 Unlimited Plus plan with up to 10GB of 4G LTE tethering, the GoPhone plan does not include Mobile Hotspot capabilities.
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Each line that exceeds 22GB of data usage may experience reduced speeds to a max of 128 Kbps on that line for the remainder of the 30-day term, but only at times and in areas where there is network congestion, which is similar to 22GB and 23GB soft cap policies from Verizon and Sprint respectively.
T-Mobile this week raised its own deprioritization threshold to 30GB, up from a previous minimum of 28GB, as spotted by TmoNews.
A cheaper GoPhone plan is available for $45 per month, or $40 with AutoPay, and includes unlimited talk, text, and up to 6GB of data at a max speed of 3 Mbps. After 6GB, data speeds are slowed to a max of 128 kbps for rest of the 30-day term. Unused data rolls over to the next month. No tethering is included.
Both plans have Stream Saver mode enabled by default, which reduces streaming video to 1.5 Mbps or around 480p quality, but it can be turned off through AT&T's website to stream video in HD quality. Both plans also include talk, text, and data roaming in Canada and Mexico at no additional charge.
The new GoPhone plans are ideal for customers that do not need tethering and are looking to avoid credit checks, activation fees, and deposits, but otherwise AT&T's new Unlimited Plus and Unlimited Choice plans and competing options are worth considering for better features or value.
AT&T's pricing includes monthly access charges, but the plans are not inclusive of taxes or additional fees. Comparatively, Verizon Unlimited starts at $80 per month, Sprint Unlimited starts at $50 per month for a limited time, and T-Mobile ONE, which includes all taxes and fees, starts at $70 per month.
The new prepaid plans appear to be available immediately, but AT&T has yet to update its GoPhone website. Additional lines can be added to each plan, with multi-line discounts ranging between $5 and $20 per month.
Article Link: AT&T Launches $60 'Unlimited' Prepaid Plan as T-Mobile Raises Throttling Minimum to 30GB
On ATT website it is only 40$ after 5$ discount with auto pay and paperless billing. Am I missing something?
https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans/planconfigurator.html?tab=gophone&plan=basic
Cellular plans and coverage in any large country is not very good because there is so much land to cover. My Israeli friends always tell me how amazing their cellular coverage is and how inexpensive the plans are, and I have to remind them that their country is the size of New Jersey (or I guess the Canadian analogy would be, the size of Lake Ontario), and thus setting up the infrastructure is so much easier.
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You sign up for the forums and your first post is to complain about the website the forum is hosted on?