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AT&T to Raise Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Plans From $30 to $35
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Frankly, I'm thinking I can jump to TMobile now. With wifi calling working now, everything's good. Those plans are great.
I gave up my unlimited plan on my iPhone, because my kids wanted a phone along with wife and I. It was much cheaper to put us all on a family plan than to have a family plan and my unlimited plan together. It has worked out well and I haven't missed on the phone. We share a 15GB plan and have never really gotten close to going over. That being said I kept my unlimited plan on my iPad since I use it for streaming video on Netflix and Hulu. I would consider ditching it if AT&T would offer something comparable to T-Mobile's Binge On video and audio streaming.
I don't either but when does a company cross the line to being straight greedy? It's not like AT&T is hurting for money or is making slim margins. AT&T just wants to increase it's already inflated margins by a bigger amount and it's doing so by hitting their older customers. If the company wants to increase profit margins to appease stock holders why can't the CEO decrease his salary? Of course not, let's increase the price on the people that could afford it least of all.
Got it. Makes sense now, sorry for being dense.
I'm a casual reader of MR so I've never noticed it. How is it biased? I mean I expect them to be biased towards Mac over PC or iPhones over Galaxy phones.
I did and don't regret it. With that being said just keep in mind that all carriers are here to make money and T-Mobile has increased their prices by $25 in the last two years. Still a great value. (Left AT&T for T-Mobile over two years ago.)
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Seriously. A $5 increase gets front page treatment, but a $20 increase gets buried. I haven't been here that long, so that was the first time I had seen that. Very disappointing.
When Verizon raised the rates for its unlimited data customers by $20 per month, it was posted under the iOS blog page. How often do you pull up the iOS blog page on MacRumors? I am guessing much less than you check the front page. It really cut down on the traffic to the thread to discuss the issue. Even today that thread is only 9 pages long. I expect this one to be up to 20 pages by this time tomorrow.
But when AT&T raised its rates by a mere $5 and suddenly THAT is front page news. This article should have been posted under the iOS blog just like the Verizon one. I mean if a $20 price increase isn't front page newsworthy, why is a $5 price increase?
Yep. And the same thing when MacRumors reported on Wifi calling restrictions for both networks.
The latter would be me and yes you are correct about Jailbreaking. However the person did not state the comment in that manner hence the retort.
If I could go unlimited with multiple devices I'd pay $150 a month to be connected everywhere. We have a vacation home that we have to use satellite for that has an LTE tower 100 yards away and full bars all day long on the phones. At present data rates and the kind of burn we'd like to do for streaming movies and whaypt not it would be like having a second mortgage. Don't know why people complain about AT&T. They've been just fine for us.
I originally had Cingular before being moved to ATT. I kept the grandfather plan from my original iPhone due to all the horror stories I heard about other carriers which made me fearful of switching. Six months ago I bought a sim to test Tmobile for a month and have not looked back since. I have better service yet pay 47% less than what I was with ATT.
Unfortunately my problem now lie with my internet. ATT Uverse is the only thing in my area. I am forced to rent their device for $8.00 a month for internet that is 3 times the cost yet 1/5 the speed of their competition just a few blocks down the roadway.
I was wondering the same thing. At&t customers have already been fleeing to T-Mobile by the bunch and as a result At&t decides to raise the price of unlimited data as well as allowing customers to end their contract without an ETF? Do they want to lose customers?
Still reasonable to me. I don't have any issues adding $5 per mo. When AT&T was throttling at 5gb, I thought $30 was still a good deal for 5gb usable data. Adding $5 is still cheaper than my $50 5gb plan through Verizon. I use 40-50gb of data per month since AT$T changed their throttling policy... and I've yet to see any hard throttles in my location. For the amount of data I use each cycle, AT&T is still a bargain... even with the price increase.
This still remains my best option. I'm fine with paying $5 extra a month for my unlimited plan. I hate how much data I use sometimes but with my life always on the go this is worth it.
t-mobile is raising their new pricing, not their grandfathered prices. world of difference, mate.
Not generous at all. It's the law. They have to waive it if you are still in contract. If you upgraded your phone and they raise your monthly fee before contract is up, it's them that are breaking the contract. They have no choice to let you out.
Your point is absolutely correct. I am bummed though as I kept considering T-Mobile and now that they've made unlimited more expensive, I really don't have a reason to move there, I would have nearly the same bill and lose subsidy phones.
I sure wish I had switched before the unlimited hike.
I am a grandfathered user. I have no problem with this. $5 is fair.... as long as they don't increase it more and more every year.