AT&T More Than Doubles Administrative Fee for Wireless Customers

If you don't like shady fees like this, then in November vote OUT politicians that are trying to dismantle and get rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and vote in some new blood that isn't corrupted by lobbyist working for companies like ATT and the rest. If you keep voting for politicians that promise to help you out but end up legislating against your interest, you deserve what you get and have no right to complain.
 
Art Mark said:
Sooner or later people will get a handle on these jerks. What they are milking out of the system has nothing to do with improving the infrastructure, providing better service or even more service. It's short term payola. Providing no additional value beyond a tower. They could at least be honest and stop telling us how hard they are working 'for us' and just shut-up about it all. Ugh...
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I love Apple fans. For years Apple charged an extra $100 for a $8 memory chip and everyone was cool. Or they jack up the new Iphone by $50 or $100 and everyone yawns. AT&T charges an extra buck and people lose their minds..
 
I hate att so much. Unfortunately service wise T-Mobile can't stack up and Verizon is just as bad.
 
So the latest “hike” of my grandfathered unlimited plan took my bill for two iPhones and a 5gig iPad plan to $225 a month. That was the breaking point for me. After being a GSM plankholder in ATT/Cingular’s network (20ish years) I ditched them for T-Mobile. Verizon screwed me badly in the 90s so they were not even an option.

$130 dollars all in for the One Military plan with unlimited and tethering for my iPhone (another #ATTsucks moment) as well as a 6gig plan for the iPad. ATT’s network is not worth the extra $95 dollars a month.

Of course when I went to cancle my iPad plan I had to do it over the phone. The noted I was a long time ATT customer and tried to get me to switch back but they were still 50 bucks more before taxes and fees.

See ya ATT.
 
Imo many people should start looking at the MVNOs' prepaid plans. If AT&T network is crucial, AT&T themselves has a subsidiary called Cricket Wireless which probably offer better rates for many people.
The only times having post paid accounts with the bit carriers is useful is when you get employee/special discounts and/or have plenty of family members. Individuals without any access to special discounts will be better served with the MVNOs.
 
As annoying as they can be it's tough to beat the 8GB prepaid plan I have with them that costs me roughly $36 a month with the $10 autopay and calling mart discounts. Last time I checked Verizon and T-mobile aren't even close to that price. If only they would add WiFi calling and VOLTE.
 
dmylrea said:
Not seeing $30/line on their site. $40/line for TMOne.
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It was a promotion I signed up for a while back (just under a year ago). You can still get the promo if you and a few friends signed up together (Tmobile business has it for $30 per line if you have 8+ lines).
 
GermanSuplex said:
Second only to Comcast on the list of worst companies I’ve dealt with.

This is the company that gave bonuses to employees, then laid off thousands and are now hiking fees. Sorry, those tax cuts aren’t working so well. Of course, they don’t need that money. But why not charge it anyway?
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Don't get me started on Comcast! I signed up for their internet recenetly, and they are the only company in my neighborhood and even though I pay for the higghesttier avaiable in 2018 they are capping the ussage at 1 TB per month. They'll charge me $10 per 50 GB used UPTO $200! On top of my normal bill! Or they make you pay $50 more a month for 'unlimited data'.

It's utter BS: they are a last mile provider. What matters and affects their operational costs is bandwidth usage, NOT how much data is going through that bandwidth. This is yet another greedy way of ****ing clients over. Even TimeWarner Cable, and then Spectrum (bought out by Charter) never had a data cap...!
 
mantan said:
I love Apple fans. For years Apple charged an extra $100 for a $8 memory chip and everyone was cool. Or they jack up the new Iphone by $50 or $100 and everyone yawns. AT&T charges an extra buck and people lose their minds..
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Except that isn't the case given that there have certainly been more than a few discussions about all those things at MacRumors and other places too.
 
EdT said:
Most U.S. citizens have voted to dismantle the health, safety and consumer functions for decades, under both Republican and Democratic leadership. Those protections had been installed because from the turn of the 20th century on businesses took advantage of people whenever they could and at least initially there were no laws to stop them. Even the recession of 2008 there was out and out fraud, which is a criminal offense, by banks AND regulators and the total number of people charged was zero.

It may not be how you personally chose who went to city, state and federal offices but as a group we are getting what we voted for.
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Well, then the citizens need to vote in new people and when those people do nothing, you permanently remove them from this earth... history shows it's the social fire that renews judicial growth.
 
Will.O.Bie said:
Ajit Pai begs to differ. I'm sure this is a tie in to the Net Neutrality he so heavily lobbied to be "consumer friendly". It's also ridiculous how they make millions of dollars and charge customers their "standard industry practice" fee. I can't say the same about Verizon as I'm sure they'll follow suit, if not already doing it. I gotta double check my bill tonight.
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Let's repay him in kind by showing that oversized Reese's mug up his rectum and shoving as much fiber optic cable in there as we can to see how much bandwidth we can get in there.
 
EdT said:
Most U.S. citizens have voted to dismantle the health, safety and consumer functions for decades, under both Republican and Democratic leadership. Those protections had been installed because from the turn of the 20th century on businesses took advantage of people whenever they could and at least initially there were no laws to stop them. Even the recession of 2008 there was out and out fraud, which is a criminal offense, by banks AND regulators and the total number of people charged was zero.

It may not be how you personally chose who went to city, state and federal offices but as a group we are getting what we voted for.
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I keep harping on this. Elections have consequences. A lot of ppl say they hate regulation. Till they realize that the regulations in place were meant to protect them. When they are stripped of those protections. And get screwed by corporations. They become shocked. And it always perplexed me that they have this reaction.
 
Dominicanyor said:
That is a bunch of bologna!! We’re just paying for the 85 Billion that AT&T just spend..:mad:
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Not just that, you're also paying for those bonuses they claimed was a result of tax law changes. They just passed it on to their customers while using the real money for share buybacks. The only way they can claim otherwise is if they are actually first to market with a full 5G network, but we all know that's highly unlikely to happen.
 
I love the comments that say something to the effect of ‘you people should vote to change this’. They’re so naive, they’re cute.

Here’s the scoop: these companies are in the pocket of the people who would actually implement a law that would regulate them (e.g., Congress), and thus no regulations will ever get passed because people (read: Congress) like to get paid exorbitant amounts of money.

Wake up. This is the world we live in.
 
MacRumors said:
AT&T said...: "This is a standard administrative fee across the wireless industry, which helps cover costs we incur for items like cell site maintenance and interconnection between carriers."
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So wtf is the rest of your bill paying for???
 
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