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AT&T Offering $200 Off Cellular iPads With 2-Year Commitment, $100 Off New Lines w/No Contract
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Huh?
Cheapest cellular ipad is $429.
They give you $200 off.
You're paying $229 for the ipad.
you pay $10 for 24 months. You've spent $240.
$469 ≠ "only paying $40 for your ipad"
keep feeding the big guys, they love customers like you.
Did you even bother reading what you quoted and then selectively chose to copy and paste from it before posting?
"only paying $40 for your iPad to be enabled over a 2-year period"
They're giving you 20 free months of adding this to mobile share if you sign a service contract, is what it boils down to, leaving you a $40 bill to pick up. The tablet costs exactly the same, they are not discounting the price of it. They are giving you statement credits.
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That's not what I said. I said you're paying $40 for your iPad to be enabled for cell access. That's a steal. You're still paying full price for an iPad, but that's not something AT&T makes, that's Apple.
$469 (plus data from your MS plan) - $40 = $429. The difference between getting an iPad this way vs buying full price without this plan comes out to $40 after 2 years.
Precisely! And only industry-wide 100% transparent uncoupling of device cost and mo fees, as an option for those who want it, will convince me I'm not being befuddled somehow.
When the device is paid for, the monthly payment drops, period. If I choose to upgrade before the device is paid for, I can do so by simply paying the remaining device cost.
eh, i don't know. this gets added to a mobile share plan which could have a large pool of data. I think as many people pay for data they don't use as go over. Of course, either way is a win for the carrier. What they don't want is for you to use exactly what you pay for.
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well it depends. It's "crap" if you evaluate on a national basis. But if you live and work in an area with good coverage, which includes most major metropolitan areas by now, then do you really care if there's no in-network coverage in big chunks of the country where you don't live?
I love reading all the comments about unlimited t-mobile. Cracks me up. You get unlimited data at a SNAILS pace. I guess on T-Mobile you go full throttle for 30 days and still can't hit 3GB, but that is still considered "unlimited" LOL
Just when will at&t realize that not all their customers are gullible enough to fall for their pathetic mobile share plan?
When they have the data rollover plan just like their calling minutes, then we can start to talk.
When they have the data rollover plan just like their calling minutes, then we can start to talk.
Aren't the mobile share plans decent these days? They cost about the same as a GoPhone plan pound for pound (not including taxes though), and once you start adding devices and tablets it gets better.
I think the issue comes from ATT not subsidizing the phones anymore but charging the same price, but I thought they were offering $15 off per line, per month? That's a savings of $360 over 2 years, add the usual $200 we used to pay to upgrade every 2 years and you have $560 which is fairly close to the price of an unsubsidized flagship, almost a break even situation. Even their next program has the $15 cheaper plan, and you have 0% financing with no activation fee so you are basically buying the phone unsubsidized but don't have to come up with 600 clams all at one shot and you pay no interest.
I'm not an ATT fanboy, I'm actually on GoPhone. But I've been thinking about going back to post paid mainly for the things GoPhone is missing like facetime over LTE and tethering. Can someone break it down and tell me what is so onerous about what ATT is doing? To me it seems like they are doing some good stuff.
This makes no sense. You aren't committed at all. Pay the ETF and away you go to where ever else you want to go.
U looking like nothing but an idiot when u crack up falsely.
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I love it.
AT&T comes out with a plan and everybody can't wait to shred it for 'trying to rip them off'
Apple continues to pillage customers for $100 for every extra 16GB of memory and we call them innovative.
Hey, they are all in it to make a buck. But cell companies get bashed here while Apple gets a free pass....
AT&T comes out with a plan and everybody can't wait to shred it for 'trying to rip them off'
Apple continues to pillage customers for $100 for every extra 16GB of memory and we call them innovative.
Hey, they are all in it to make a buck. But cell companies get bashed here while Apple gets a free pass....
I have a few questions about this deal.
- Does this deal include refurbished or certified like-new iPads
- Do you have to make the purchase in store or can you benefit from this deal with an online purchase?
Congratulations! You found a 10 foot wide sliver in the T-Mobile network that gives you 60% of the AT&T LTE speeds I get. Clapping for you! Make sure you don't make any sudden moves when you download anything.
AT&T and tmobile
theres nothing stopping you from using AT&T's $200 discount and getting your free 200 mb from tmobile at the same time. bring your discounted AT&T iPad to your tmobile store, get your free 200 mb of data each month and switch the sims when you want to. they might charge you $10 for the sim card, though
tmobile told me that all sims are the same (unlike AT&T go phone sims ) and if you have to buy a $10 sim at cvs pharmacy, the tmobile store should trade you a nano sim for it.
i have 3 nano sims and i have found that in san jose tmobile blows away AT&T. even in areas of west san jose where tmobile only has 4G and AT&T has 4G LTE, that tmobile was faster. but back home in san andreas, AT&T has 4G but tmobile has GPRS, sigh
i also have verizon , it scores pretty low too
i see speeds of 5 megabit for verizon, 9 megabit for AT&T and 20 megabit for tmobile on average
the iPad air and mini retina have the new world LTE chip, so you will get LTE speeds regardless if AT&T's or tmobile's or verizon's sim is installed.
theres nothing stopping you from using AT&T's $200 discount and getting your free 200 mb from tmobile at the same time. bring your discounted AT&T iPad to your tmobile store, get your free 200 mb of data each month and switch the sims when you want to. they might charge you $10 for the sim card, though
tmobile told me that all sims are the same (unlike AT&T go phone sims ) and if you have to buy a $10 sim at cvs pharmacy, the tmobile store should trade you a nano sim for it.
i have 3 nano sims and i have found that in san jose tmobile blows away AT&T. even in areas of west san jose where tmobile only has 4G and AT&T has 4G LTE, that tmobile was faster. but back home in san andreas, AT&T has 4G but tmobile has GPRS, sigh
i also have verizon , it scores pretty low too
i see speeds of 5 megabit for verizon, 9 megabit for AT&T and 20 megabit for tmobile on average
the iPad air and mini retina have the new world LTE chip, so you will get LTE speeds regardless if AT&T's or tmobile's or verizon's sim is installed.
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