It is for me. The bill confirms that it's being applied to my 10GB Shared Mobile plan and not to the cost of each individual line.
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AT&T to Begin Offering Shared Data Plans in Late August
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It is for me. The bill confirms that it's being applied to my 10GB Shared Mobile plan and not to the cost of each individual line.
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4 GB Data = $70
iPhone 1 = $40
iPhone 2 = $40
Talk = Free
Text = Free
Total = $150
It's only $20 more and you're still saving $40. And you don't need to be cautious at all. And then you can use Facetime over cellular and tether laptops or tablets too.
Gary
Are you getting a 50% discount on the 10GB data plan? If you're not getting any discount on the individual lines, that should be $30 x 4, plus $10 x 2 for the iPads, so $140. If you get 50% off the $120 10GB data plan, that would be $200. Most of us don't get that big of a discount, though.
I'm so glad I just found out about this, it's going to save me a lot of money. I was still on the unlimited data grandfathered from the original iPhone. A couple of years ago I added a line for my wife, so she had the 2GB DataPro, I had Unlimited, both had shared unlimited calls and texts, my bills were approximately $250 per month, sometimes more. I looked at our data use for the past few months and for both of us it is slightly over 1GB per month each. The most I've used in the past 5 or 6 months is 2GB in a month, which made paying for unlimited data ridiculous. I always kept it because I knew I wouldn't be able to go back but if I never use that much it's plain stupid. Since I moved to Dallas from Los Angeles I've found AT&T's data so awful to the point that I just make sure I'm connected to wifi to avoid having to use it, even if it means connecting to my company-provided Verizon 4G MiFi which works blistering fast everywhere that AT&T can barely manage download an email on my 4S.
Anyway, I switched to the 4GB shared, which should be plenty given our data use over the past 6 months, for a total of $150 a month - saving at least $100 a month compared to what I have been paying! Couldn't be happier with the new plans.
Anyway, I switched to the 4GB shared, which should be plenty given our data use over the past 6 months, for a total of $150 a month - saving at least $100 a month compared to what I have been paying! Couldn't be happier with the new plans.
It has already been stated, but I'm going to give a quick dot-point summary of who these plans will "save a lot of money" for. If you meet both criteria, you may very sell save a lot of money:
1) You currently have unlimited voice minutes and (this part's important) you *really do* need unlimited voice minutes.
2) You need very little data per device, or if you have 3 or more devices you need very little data for most of your devices, but maybe need a large amount of data for one of your devices.
Point #2 is pretty straightforward, but I want to highlight point #1. How many people really *need* unlimited voice? For those of you who have unlimited voice minutes (or have a plan with a large bucket of minutes), have you checked to see if you're actually using more than what a lower voice minute plan would give you? In my case, we have three phones and the lowest minute plan (450 I think). I don't think we've ever used more than 450 minutes. Unlimited mobile-to-mobile is a big part of the reason why. And since we never go over, we also get rollover minutes, so now we've got lots of extra minutes in the "bank."
On top of that, I *do* use a lot of data on my iPhone, and my daughter could easily use quite a bit, too, if I hadn't given her strict instructions to use Pandora sparingly when outside the house, and to never use YouTube (even though she still uses it somewhat).
So, for people like me who don't meet *either* of those two criteria, these new plans aren't going to look so hot.
I suspect that many people with high-minute or unlimited-minute plans *don't* need to be on those plans, so they've actually just been wasting money all along that they didn't need to waste. They look at the new plans and think that they're going to save a lot of money, but really they could have already been saving themselves a good chunk of money by switching to a lower-minute plan.
1) You currently have unlimited voice minutes and (this part's important) you *really do* need unlimited voice minutes.
2) You need very little data per device, or if you have 3 or more devices you need very little data for most of your devices, but maybe need a large amount of data for one of your devices.
Point #2 is pretty straightforward, but I want to highlight point #1. How many people really *need* unlimited voice? For those of you who have unlimited voice minutes (or have a plan with a large bucket of minutes), have you checked to see if you're actually using more than what a lower voice minute plan would give you? In my case, we have three phones and the lowest minute plan (450 I think). I don't think we've ever used more than 450 minutes. Unlimited mobile-to-mobile is a big part of the reason why. And since we never go over, we also get rollover minutes, so now we've got lots of extra minutes in the "bank."
On top of that, I *do* use a lot of data on my iPhone, and my daughter could easily use quite a bit, too, if I hadn't given her strict instructions to use Pandora sparingly when outside the house, and to never use YouTube (even though she still uses it somewhat).
So, for people like me who don't meet *either* of those two criteria, these new plans aren't going to look so hot.
I suspect that many people with high-minute or unlimited-minute plans *don't* need to be on those plans, so they've actually just been wasting money all along that they didn't need to waste. They look at the new plans and think that they're going to save a lot of money, but really they could have already been saving themselves a good chunk of money by switching to a lower-minute plan.
My wife and I both use our phones a lot for work. She uses around 2500 mins per months and I use around 1500 mins per month. This new plan (4GB shared data, with unlimited calls and texts) is going to save me a lot of money vs what I was paying.
I just called ATT last night and talked with someone for 20 minutes about Mobile Share.
ATT person told me that you can tether on any mobile share data amount plan.
Are you saying that you need the 4 GB plan to tether?
Mobile share
Just switched my entire small business premier account to a Mobile Share plan within the existing small business account. Added my cellular iPad to the plan and a 6th phone that wasn't previously included and I'm saving $100 month. I bought the 10gb package. Much more than my average across all previous lines. You can have up to 10 phones or devices on the plan.
Just switched my entire small business premier account to a Mobile Share plan within the existing small business account. Added my cellular iPad to the plan and a 6th phone that wasn't previously included and I'm saving $100 month. I bought the 10gb package. Much more than my average across all previous lines. You can have up to 10 phones or devices on the plan.
I haven't asked my son what his discount is. He gets some sort of employee discount and I know it's only on the data. He's not a direct employee. AT&T bought his company and they may get something a bit different. If I remember I'll ask him this weekend and post back. But I'm having surgery so I can't promise for a week or so.
No, but you were talking about being careful. More data means not having to ration. Especially if you pan to tether.
Gary