Actually it is only off of the base price of $60. No discounts on the access charges. (This also corresponds to the Mobile Share plans.) My discount was $13.50 on the 30 GB advantage plan, but is now $6.00 on the Unlimited plan.
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Actually it is only off of the base price of $60. No discounts on the access charges. (This also corresponds to the Mobile Share plans.) My discount was $13.50 on the 30 GB advantage plan, but is now $6.00 on the Unlimited plan.
Do you have it on unlimited or the 1GB for $10 plan? I wonder if those that have it on the $10 plan keep it because overage charges are possible... I'm on the 1GB for $10 and personal hotspot still pops up for me from my iPad Pro.
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Actually I saved about $20 from my old plan. Dropped our tablets to the 1GB for $10 plan to and we have one basic phone. Barely ever used hotspot, so it wasn't much of a loss for us.
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The unlimited plan that I got for having DirecTV. I've never had the $10 for 1GB plan ever on any of my devices.
If you have a tablet, you can either be unlimited or select a 1GB data cap per month for $10. $15/GB overage.
If they had hotspot like the other carriers you could save that $10 and have 10GB not 1GB..
No way this competes with Verizon for anyone with the grandfathered unlimited plan. Even with my FAN discount Verizon still comes out a couple of bucks cheaper plus gives you the tethering option. The fact that I can break my contract (because of the impending $5 increase to said unlimited plan) is icing on the cake.
Sorry AT&T......I've only ever been a Cingular & Att customer since my first cell phone & now you've finally given me a reason to bail.
Sorry AT&T......I've only ever been a Cingular & Att customer since my first cell phone & now you've finally given me a reason to bail.
Yea but that's not the plan I have. I have the unlimited that came with being with DirecTV. Which gives me unlimited in on iPad Pro with unlimited tethering and hot spot on that device.
I predict that AT&T will be making changes to this unlimited plan by the middle of March.
For the first time in a long time, Verizon is either less expensive than AT&T when looking at comparable plans or Verizon is offering the customer more features for the same price that AT&T is charging.
There is no way AT&T is dumb enough to not make some changes. Their Twitter account is on fire with people threatening to switch to Verizon in order to get an unlimited plan with hotspot enabled.
For the first time in a long time, Verizon is either less expensive than AT&T when looking at comparable plans or Verizon is offering the customer more features for the same price that AT&T is charging.
There is no way AT&T is dumb enough to not make some changes. Their Twitter account is on fire with people threatening to switch to Verizon in order to get an unlimited plan with hotspot enabled.
All they got to do is get tethering in there and that would already do the trick for most.
Think I'm going to jump to the T-Mobile ship too. If they're raising the grandfather plan another $5 in march. I have 3 lines with 2 unlimited and it's about $190. I can get 4 lines for $160 if I go with T-Mobile.
Yes it is.
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You don't even need to reboot the phone.
Hotspot disappears from your settings when you elect the unlimited plan. I had to do a ddoouubbllee take when looking at my settings.
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Uncharacteristically, ATT DID offer this plan quite quickly in response to VZW's offering. So, that shows some initiative on ATT's part in actually trying to hold onto subscribers.
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I lost my Hotspot without rebooting.
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Ok... fine.
My point was... they seem to pick a number at random.
I thought the carriers said the average person's data use was 3GB-5GB.
So again... where did they get numbers 22GB or 28GB ?
Sure. Usage is around 3-5GB when you are on a tiered plan because you are mindful of connecting to WiFi and not using your data indiscriminately.
Add the option to go unlimited and not have to worry about paying an overage charge and you will definitely see many people's data usage double and triple.
I stream a lot of NBA and NHL games through the iPhone 7 apps. I try to only do it on WiFi when available or else I only stream it cellularly during a close game. I just switched to the UL ATT plan, so it's open season now.
As far as where did the numbers come from? Possibly from ATT subscribers who have had the UL data plans for the last couple of years, or even since the inception of UL data(of course they convert 2G and 3G usage into usable 4G numbers)?
Hmm.... I too was finally going to drop my grandfathered unlimited plan, but I got an error message at the confirming page. It was showing $220 for 5 lines. Then when I tried it again, I get the breakdown below. Bye bye $40 discount on the 4th line. Maybe a system bug. I'll try again in a few hours.
Except I DO get hotspot with this unlimited plan on my iPad Pro.
Unless you use this plan on iPad Pro in which case you will get unlimited AND tethering/hotspot.
I've averaged between 40-60GB per month for years on the grandfathered iPhone plan on just my line. The throttling used to be severe and automatic (400kbps on an uncongested residential LTE tower at 2am). Ever since the FTC lawsuit 3 years ago, the limit has been raised to 22GB and I've never seen throttling. Only slow downs have been at huge football games where EVERYONE is having trouble loading Facebook and ESPN.So it's basically a way to encourage these "unlimited" customers to stay under 22GB of usage to get the best experience.
Because I'm not seeing a physical difference between:
I mean... if the tower's full... the tower's full. It doesn't matter who is trying to connect or how much data they've used during their billing cycle.
- The tower being congested with people who are under 22GB
- The tower being congested with people who are over 22GB
But if I'm understanding this correctly... as long as you haven't gone over 22GB yet... you'll get connected to the tower first. Is that right?
Next question... do we think this will be noticeable?
I'm just trying to wrap my head around this as I will become a Verizon Unlimited customer later this year.
For instance... if I've only used 19GB for the month... everything should work as normal.
But if I've used 23GB for the month... what will happen? Will my email take an extra half-second to download? Will YouTube buffer endlessly or fail to load?
BTW... I'm just curious about all this. I'm on the 6GB Verizon plan right now... and I rarely get close to the top.
But I am wondering how this will affect people who do use tons of data.
IIRC, the 4th line thing is a separate discount that gets applied to your account starting 2-3 months in. Kind of like how their free iPhone 7, they still bill you $27.09/month for it, but give you a separate discount that zeros it out. There was a 2-3 month wait for that discount to show up too, but the first discount on my bill was for three months worth. Not sure if ATT backpays for missing months in this case though.
According to the rep I chatted with yesterday, they do "backpay." I saved the chat transcript for backup, just in case it doesn't happen. I'm sceptical because I don't see it in writing anywhere.
I just called ATT and complained that I was essentially being charged an $80 fee (2 months of no credit for a 4th phone) just for signing up for the unlimited data. The rep said too bad, so I asked to speak to customer loyalty and got a nice guy who checked on it and then came back and said that their system was originally setup that way with a billing delay on the 4th phone credit because it took time to verify that a customer had DirecTV or UVerse. He said that since that is no longer required, it should credit me immediately. He signed me up and then asked me to refresh my ATT account to confirm I had the credit. Of course it was not there yet, so he made a note in my account and said to refer to his name and his notation in the future to make sure I get the credit. Regardless he confirmed that I was due to recieve the credit immediately rather than two months later.
Bottom line is that if you are signing up for unlimited you should definitely call and demand the credit start immediately, not 2 months later. No other carriers charge a "fee" like this to switch plans, so we shouldn't accept it with ATT either.
When I said "switching plans" I was referring to switching data plans from a limited data plan (30 gb/mo) to an unlimited data plan. There shouldn't be any "fee" associated with that IMO.
You are correct that their the only change to the ATT unlimited plan was to remove the TV subscription requirement.
Got a call from AT&T's social media team after I tweeted to them that we needed tethering to go on to the unlimited plan. Spoke for a few minutes and the rep told me that the tethering issue is something she's heard from customers ever since they announced the unlimited plan. So at least our voice is being heard and hopefully they do something about it.
I had similar situation as you; I switched to VzW and am very happy. I was tired of being held hostage by a company that does not value its customers.