Seriously? Because they would lose those long-term customers in droves to providers that had half the sense not to do that.
They're trying to apply pressure, not completely piss you off.
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AT&T Raising Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans to $45 Per Month
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Seriously? Because they would lose those long-term customers in droves to providers that had half the sense not to do that.
They're trying to apply pressure, not completely piss you off.
Here in the UK most* cell providers now increase prices on an annual basis even when you’re on a minimum term.
*AFAIK only Tesco Mobile and Three UK (SIM only plans) don’t use RPI to increase monthly line rental; Out of Allowance rates excluded.
It’s really not hard.
Company promises customer a deal if customer buys service from them.
Customer agrees.
Company tries to back out of deal.
Customer gets upset.
You may want to pick up a dictionary, this is not an “entitled” attitude, unless you mean people believe they should be entitled not to be lied to by companies. If ATT or whom ever makes a bad deal that’s on them, they should have to live with the consequences. You seem to think it’s perfectly ok for them to lie though. To me that seems to be a much bigger problem in America today, the attitude that corporations should have stronger rights than actual people.
By that logic my income is going up because I can prove my expenses have gone up!! And yet, when I ask for that raise EVERYONE is surprised...
To bad such logic isn't universal!
Once again... if there is not difference in performance, and actually MORE expensive than the current unlimited plan being offered, why are they raising the prices again?
And if it's from "costs associated with keeping the plan around that I'm not privy to", but they can also just change features or discontinue the plan at their pleasure whenever they want, THEN WHY AREN'T THEY JUST DOING THAT?
The fact that you think it's such an absurd idea that a massive corporation like AT&T might be hiding something from a small group of long-time customers is astounding to me. You seem to be reaching very hard to come up with an answer that would make sense, and I have yet to see one.
Cricket is limited to 8Mbps on their 60$ plan and 3Mbps on the 55$ deal. The only reason the 55 dollar plan is worth considering is that when you add multiple lines, its is cheaper. IE 2 lines for 80$ on the unlimited 3Mbps second plan compared to 60+50=110 for the 8Mbps. You can actually get 4 lines for 100$ with cricket at 3Mbps.. which I feel is a good price for what you are getting.
Is that a joke? AT&T desperately tries to get rid of the grandfathered in plans as much as possible. The SECOND you abuse your data, they'll revoke that plan from you so fast your head will spin. It's incredibly easy to distinguish regular phone usage, even heavy phone usage, from people tethering their connection to run an entire house of devices.
Do you have a single example of people currently doing this? Even anecdotal? Because you can find plenty of anecdotal examples of people losing their grandfathered plans from doing this.
The deal ended when the contract ended. Entitled = demanding a business provide you the same service at the same price forever.
A smart business (not saying this applies to AT&T) recognizes there are customers they *don't* want as customers.
Progressive Insurance recognized this years ago and heavily promoted their price comparison tool. Add a bit of setting up high-pricing for customers they don't want (due to accidents, driving record, age, etc) and they encourage existing customers to find the door.
I'd hazard a guess that there's a fair portion of grandfathered-unlimited users who are high volume users. That's not necessarily a customer AT&T wants to keep. Perhaps from their point of view, its a win if they get the high volume folks to go elsewhere.
There terms and conditions are grandfathered - not the price.
For a BYOD plan with 1 GB data you are looking at about $80/month. There's no such thing as unlimited data plans here, the biggest plans I've seen top out at 15 GB of data and that will cost you about $160/month. If you want a device subsidy add about another $20/month on top of that (it's not really a subsidy here anymore, more like an interest free payment plan). With prices like that you can see why 10 GB for $60 caused quite a stir here!
Everyone kept saying they'll switch to other carrier. The problem is and does not matter - all carriers are not good. Sometimes carrier A will be good for City A's specific spot but not Carrier B and Carrier B will be good for city B's specific spot but not Carrier C. So on.
I ditched Grandfather's plan in 2015 b/c they throttled my data if I go past 5 GB which is dumb. I switched to different plan b/c they offered hotspot which is nice. I have switched couple of plans since and the current one is better now. Again, all carriers suck. Just sayin'.
I ditched Grandfather's plan in 2015 b/c they throttled my data if I go past 5 GB which is dumb. I switched to different plan b/c they offered hotspot which is nice. I have switched couple of plans since and the current one is better now. Again, all carriers suck. Just sayin'.
The plan was originally sold unlimited with no caps and best speed possible. The throttling was added once they knew can get away with doing.
AT&T Supposedly has some sort of protection from class-action lawsuits at the moment. I had a really serious problem where I couldn't switch from post-paid to pre-paid with them due to a system glitch of their own making. It ended up costing me $150 or so due to extra fees they charged me, even though it was on their end. They basically told me that I'd have to take them to small claims court to get it resolved. I used to like AT&T and now they make my blood boil.
I have grandfathered unlimited with 200 text and 1000 monthly minutes no hotspot. At this stage after increased it came out to be $5 cheaper but now I guess Ill finally get out of grandfathered and get unlimited everything plus a hot spot.
The way I look at it this price increase is giving me an upgrade! I just hope they arent raising current plans too.
The way I look at it this price increase is giving me an upgrade! I just hope they arent raising current plans too.
They can raise rates under contracts too. Either pay it or get out with no termination fee
So how are those lawsuits doing from the previous annual price increases?
I ditched whoever your provider is a couple of years ago. Couldn't be happier. Everybody hates something. I wonder how AT&T continues to grow subscribers every quarter. Or Verizon, or T-Mobile, or Sprint, or Cricket, or... other hated providers.
Means it is an old plan the is not advertised anymore but people can stay on the plan.
^^ this.
When they subsidized phones, the plan made sense. Now it's practically worthless and I don't understand why people are still on it. Its only advantage is decoupled text and voice, so you could, in theory, eliminate text and drop to minimum voice for ~$65/month. But I suspect that's very few people.
T-Mobile just decreased my bill. $100.95 for 4 lines all with unlimited everything and Netflix included
is atnt they can d*ck anyone around because people let them. Im still surprised how people support this company. I guess they just like getting screwed by corporations.
I ditched the AT&T unlimited plan about 3 years ago. Sick of being throttled and my inlaws wanted to get on our plan. AT&T was offering 40GB a month for the price of 20GB a month. We quit and have never looked back. We don't get throttled and my inlaws use like, no data unless they are on their twice-yearly trip from Michigan to Florida (or the reverse... snowbirds) so we have PLENTY of data. We often have rollover.
Even with two year contracts there was generally language in there saying that the carrier could do whatever they want with the plan prices and/or features. The only catch for them was if they made a change then you could get out of your contract without paying an Early Termination Fee.
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