AT&T to Bump DataPro + Tethering Plan to 4 GB Per Month

ehhh, lame.

drop package prices by $5 and leave as is, that will be more impressive to most users than tethering is.
and you keep more users from switching.

oh well.
 
lol

So at&t just gave an extra 2 GB for the same price as before...and people are all complaining about it?

Ha ha. No wonder companies don't listen to people on the internet. What's the point?
 
Thank you AT&T. Now I can upgrade to the tethering plan because I won't feel like a stupid moron for paying an extra $20 a month just to have a bit flipped on my phone that says "you can tether".

At $10 per extra gig, this will bring the pricing in line with using 4GB on the non-tethering plan, so it's fair and equitable.

I'm a heavy user so if I upgrade to this plan I won't be having to "watch the clock" as much. It's amazing what a little competition can do, eh? :)
 
They don't get it.

It's one thing to charge extra for tethering on an unlimited plan where it's possible to use much more data than you normally would on a phone with no overages.

But here you're paying $20 extra for the exact same amount of data. If there's a cap, there's no reason to be charging extra because you have a 4GB limit whether on the phone or tethered.

The tethering plan should give you more data on top of the regular phone data plan.
 
Warbrain said:
It's 4 GB across all your devices. That means your iPhone and anything else you connect to it.
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But the tethered data is an additional fee correct? So, if I have the 4GB (non tethered) plan, and only use 1GB now, and want to tether an iPad to it and use the remaining 3GB, that can only be done if I buy the "Tether" at an extra $20/month. So, in my case, I would really be entitled to 8GB, 4 for exclusive phone use and 4 more via the tether. But half would go unused.

Tether is cool, but they are double dipping if you are a person who doesn't consume your normal data plan. You should be able to tether out the balance at no extra cost.
 
rorschach said:
They don't get it.

It's one thing to charge extra for tethering on an unlimited plan where it's possible to use much more data than you normally would on a phone with no overages.

But here you're paying $20 extra for the exact same amount of data. If there's a cap, there's no reason to be charging extra because you have a 4GB limit whether on the phone or tethered.

The tethering plan should give you more data on top of the regular phone data plan.
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That's essentially what they're doing. You're paying $25 for the 2 GB and when you pay $15 more for tethering you get 4 GB. It just isn't a separate bucket.
 
notabadname said:
But the tethered data is an additional fee correct? So, if I have the 4GB (non tethered) plan, and only use 1GB now, and want to tether an iPad to it and use the remaining 3GB, that can only be done if I buy the "Tether" at an extra $20/month. So, in my case, I would really be entitled to 8GB, 4 for exclusive phone use and 4 more via the tether. But half would go unused.

Tether is cool, but they are double dipping if you are a person who doesn't consume your normal data plan. You should be able to tether out the balance at no extra cost.
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You don't get a 4 GB data plan. You get a 2 GB bucket for $25 and an additional 2 GB when you pay $15 for tethering. You get a 4 GB bucket for both tethering and iPhone-only.
 
It's not like your going to be downloading a 10GB HD movie through tethering? :eek:

Honestly, is anyone really going to use that much data in 1 month? It's quite a lot, actually, for a mobile device and tethering use.

Though the price is a bit looney. For that, they probably should go unlimited.
 
This is a way for them to make money on how much is used. Yes its crappy because if you think about it in the sense of bandwidth, its a crappy deal.

IF this was contract free and you could turn it on and off as you wanted (tethering that is) and not pay the extra $20 a month it would be ok.
 
rorschach said:
They don't get it.

It's one thing to charge extra for tethering on an unlimited plan where it's possible to use much more data than you normally would on a phone with no overages.

But here you're paying $20 extra for the exact same amount of data. If there's a cap, there's no reason to be charging extra because you have a 4GB limit whether on the phone or tethered.

The tethering plan should give you more data on top of the regular phone data plan.
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Dude, um, did you read the article????
 
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What about us wIth the $30 unlimited plan? Do we get 4th for tether?

Hmmm handy light app would be nice I agree. I just really wish I have tether or wifi because I have wifi only iPad.
 
Mattsasa said:
4gb should be more than enough for the average person! So good job at&t.

however I am not the average person... I will use 10-20gb per month with mywi 4.0
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That seems like a lot to me. Are you using mywi in lieu of an ISP?

Personally, I don't like the fact that AT&T or any carrier, charges extra for tethering (sounds like the US is the only market that does that) but I don't think people should utilize it as a primary gateway to the intrawebs.

It's my $.02 that fewer people would jailbreak and use tetherme or mywi if AT&T didn't charge extra for it. I'd pay $5 more a month but I can't justify $20. Maybe I'm not the average jailbreaker. Sure I like SBSettings and other useful utilities but the primary reason I do it is for mywi.
 
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Warbrain said:
notabadname said:
But the tethered data is an additional fee correct? So, if I have the 4GB (non tethered) plan, and only use 1GB now, and want to tether an iPad to it and use the remaining 3GB, that can only be done if I buy the "Tether" at an extra $20/month. So, in my case, I would really be entitled to 8GB, 4 for exclusive phone use and 4 more via the tether. But half would go unused.

Tether is cool, but they are double dipping if you are a person who doesn't consume your normal data plan. You should be able to tether out the balance at no extra cost.
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You don't get a 4 GB data plan. You get a 2 GB bucket for $25 and an additional 2 GB when you pay $15 for tethering. You get a 4 GB bucket for both tethering and iPhone-only.
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Correct, except that it's $20 for tethering, not $15.

So the options are:
$15/250 MB/iPhone only
$25/2 GB/iPhone only
$45/4 GB/iPhone and tether, data alloted between the devices however you want.

That's a lot more reasonable than before. But they really need to allow hotspot (once 4.3 is live) to make it worth it to me. Then you could do a wifi only iPad and use it like a 3G iPad.
 
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