I pay £20 which includes taxes. I don't see that as a bad deal. Unless I'm buying a new Mac, then I buy it from the US 
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AT&T to Raise Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Plans From $30 to $35
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I travel internationally quite a bit and always opt for a local SIM card. Although it's not a bad feature at all, 2G data roaming, unlimited or not, is useless to me. T-Mobile should really concentrate on improving their US network instead, if they really want to compete.
Sure hope this is only affecting iPhone Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plan users. The iPad GF Data plan was a different beast, and the month to month signup said $30, not $35. It never said, "and we can change the terms of this offer so you pay more for Unlimited." After all, unlike the iPhone GF DP - data throttling NEVER applied to us.
there have been stories (some here on MR) of people using 20-30gb of data a month.
do people really need to do that? no. but they're probably using their internet for their house, putting up a hotspot so anyone can connect, etc.
i can barely hit 5gb and i'm a HEAVY user. i'm always on my phone.
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YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, any number of APPs and APP Downloads/updates, streaming from AppleMusic/Pandora/Spotify, etc.?
Plus Jailbreaking or finding ways to forcibly illegally against ToS and their contract Tether multiple devices and/or hotspotting multiple devices
Most prevalent in cases where Sprint Verizon and T-Mobile have gone on public record labeling and out such "Abusers" that see Monthy usages in realms of 500GB 600GB 1TB 2TB 3TB etc. treating illegal tethering or HotSpotting practices as their own neighborhood FREE For all hotspot/cyber cafe
It's way worth it if people look at what limited uses pay/get heck I was getting 15GB ( before ANY Promo ) then 30GB now 60GB ( both after Promos ) but paying 3 to 7 times the new $35 being imposed here
Even looking at newer customers in the last 1-14 months they're getting less than great deals even with Promos and have much more to worry about usage wise
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Lol agreed with you both! Great minds think alike!
You 2 most definitely are of good mindset
Have a great day you 2 and keep being awesome
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Without a doubt these "Double your data" promos are some of the best conceived in ages and a bit more resistant to price hiking thankfully!
The no throttle ever is nice granted paying for that non throttle if exceeding your data allowance is a pain. Alas in the long run all plans and pricing have pros and cons
I agree with Four oF NINE using what you pay for is not abusing anything. AT&T over extended themselves in the beginning. Instead of ramping up they decided to take their buckets of cash to the bank. We as customer have loyally stayed some begrudgingly thru some crappy service. Now that things are easing up and the service is starting to be way way better everyone forgets about the struggle we went thru. I for one had crappy service in the beginning. still to this day I refuse to call ATT about issue for fear of them screwing up my account.
They can and they've done it before. Back in the days of individual message pricing, AT&T changed the price of MMS messages. Anyone with a contract was subject to the new price but since AT&T is essentially breaking their side of the agreement, you're allowed to leave without the ETF.
That's the same thing here. They can't change the terms of your agreement and then penalize you for leaving. By staying, you are accepting the new/modified terms of the contract. If you reject the new terms, they are required to let you leave without a penalty (rather than allowing you to keep the old pricing).
I can use 5GB or more in a day. And during the Summer, my usage ranged from 57-204GB. I steamed a lot of videos instead of just doing music on Pandora and iHeart Radio that month. Plus my kids watched movies while on a road trip. That was the only time that my usage was that high.
I pay $81.73 for this with taxes and my discount.
They have stronger coverage, but very far from excellent. In the last year, dropped calls have been becoming much more frequent. AT&T first cell service was horrible, but they got an infusion when they bought Cingular's superior service, unfortunately they are slowly running in it into the ground. Customer service used to be very good, but it's been steadily getting worse. It's not like its cheap either, voice call pricing for grandfathered plans are outrageous, so it's not like they aren't making a killing on even those 'naughty' high bandwidth consumers.
Randall Stephenson should step aside as CEO, because his only action is to publicly bitch about his own customers then squeeze them harder. The 'network abuser' controversy was such obvious scapegoating to cover their asses on horrible technical mismanagement. Their overall network thru-put in any given region is ridiculous, as close to unlimited as possible, but when they screw up cell tower allocations and make poor infrastructure purchases/decisions, it's not a customer problem, it's a management problem, as in it's Randy's fault. AT&T would be better served in the 21st century with more technically savvy leadership. Let's also not forget the crapfest called Uverse, another Stephenson achievement in the race to the bottom.
Further, it's in completely terrible taste to alter customers' contracts mid stream. If he wants to raise rates, he should honor the spirit of his company's commitments, then raise on future renewals / new plans. As some claim here, if that a $5/month increase isn't that much for customers, then it shouldn't be that significant for AT&T to bother pushing it on existing contracts. If this 'trivial' increase is that significant for the hassle, then AT&T is running a real turd show with their overall business. There are only two possible reasons: desperation or petty greed. F 'em all with a rusty shovel and their disingenuous sycophants too.
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Funny, because when my family of four switched to one of the shared plans (I used to have unlimited), we started saving about $100 a month over the old costs. Still have 25GB a month + rollover data shared, which is more than the unlimited cap anyways.
They've already announced they will because they're required to for a certain period of time.
-Old GF UDP taxes and FAN discount 700 min family plan: 60+9.99+9.99+9.99+20(unlimited sms)+30+30+30+30 = 229.97
- 25 GB share plan ls 175 dollars + 60 access fee for 4 linens = 235 dollars per month
Same price +- a cup of coffee(if you can call it coffee
) at S-B.I don't see any savings here. Also unlimited data cap is 22 gb per line with UDP= 88 for 4 lines. I was throttled only one time for 5-7 minutes for the last 6 month. UDP plan has a great value, that's why people sell it 650 and up now on eBay.
Sorry, but I don't understand your logic.
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And people forget that, for many years, unlimited data plans were the most expensive plans that AT&T offered. So we've paid our dues.
So many AT&T keyboard warriors here...
Does T-Mobile really maintain their contracts after the honeymoon is over?
Does it really kee the streaming of music and videos out of the quota? Where is the catch? if there is any?
Does T-Mobile really maintain their contracts after the honeymoon is over?
Does it really kee the streaming of music and videos out of the quota? Where is the catch? if there is any?
Why on earth would you think that? Capped data plans started when carriers realized that they have an additional way to suck money out of customers' pockets via data overages.
-Old GF UDP taxes and FAN discount 700 min family plan: 60+9.99+9.99+9.99+20(unlimited sms)+30+30+30+30 = 229.97
- 25 GB share plan ls 175 dollars + 60 access fee for 4 linens = 235 dollars per month
Same price +- a cup of coffee(if you can call it coffee
I don't see any savings here. Also unlimited data cap is 22 gb per line with UDP= 88 for 4 lines. I was throttled only one time for 5-7 minutes for the last 6 month. UDP plan has a great value, that's why people sell it 650 and up now on eBay.
Sorry, but I don't understand your logic.
Our main plan isn't $175, it's $100 plus fees/tax. After looking at it, it's actually 15GB a month plus rollover which puts it over 25. The other three users on the plan use less than 3GB a month combined so the majority is available for my use.
So $100 + 15 + 15 + 15 (other three lines) + 25 for my iphone (att next) + 25 for one other iphone (att next). $195 plus fees. Still substantially cheaper than the $250+ it was on the old plan.
And there's a reason some are leaving T-Mobile as well.
I made the jump from AT&T to T-Mobile.
Worst decision ever. Minimal (2G/3G) coverage in rural areas, spotty coverage on the highway between AZ and California (I travel to LA and SD a lot), and poor building penetration. Band 12 is still not deployed in most of AZ and my 6 Plus doesn't support it anyway.
Yeah their LTE was fast, when you could get a good signal. I had the Cell Spot in my house, without it, I barely got 4G.
WiFi calling dropped more calls than I could count during hand off.
So after a little over a year with T-Mobile, I went back to AT&T.
AT&T's LTE is not as fast as T-Mobile's, but I can get an LTE signal pretty much everywhere I go. Even on I-10 between PHX and LA.
I don't argue or want to proof that I'm right, you are wrong , but you should also calculate 400 discount every 2 years , which on your 5 lines gives 2000/24= 83.33(3) per month...., but you now have free Mexico roaming, free Canada/ Mexico long distance(5 dollars for me per line) and free worldwide SMS service. Plus not everybody got unlimited minutes with GF plans, like I did. Also my plan is going to be 5 dollars more per month per line.
Also if I were you with your plan I call retention dept. and ask them to bump your plan from 15 Gb to 20 Gb. A lot of people report that they have a success to get extra 5 Gb free.