You and me both! I persevered, in the face of people telling me to "let it go". Woot!
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Carrier AT&T Unlimited Data Plan Throttling Limit Increased to 22GB
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Great, I wouldn't be shocked if they forced customers to change plans now with upgrades, now all they have to do is enable tethering for unlimited users, I don't mind paying for it eithe
I thought it was odd enough that AT&T never tried to entice me off either my Unlimited data plan or 2-year contract, when I was going through the pre-order process. I thought it was very cool, but wondered when the rug was going to be pulled out from under me.
And now, here we are with AT&T upping the Unlimited throttle very significantly. Apparently they still love us?
What's next?
And now, here we are with AT&T upping the Unlimited throttle very significantly. Apparently they still love us?
What's next?
Interesting -- this is a good development.
I've been a AT&T UDP guy for 7 years and I still am, at least for a few more weeks. I just decided to switch over to T-Mobile and I'm waiting on my 6s+ to arrive. When it does, my plan is to port over my AT&T number and cancel service with AT&T.
For years, I've been saying that I will never give up my UDP. However, after thoroughly crunching the numbers from every angle, I've concluded that it just isn't worth it for our (my wife and me's) particular case. By switching over to T-Mobile, we each get 10 GB of high-speed data a month and music streaming is always free. I can also freely tether as much of that 10 GB as I want, for free. I've never used more than 5 GB in a month and my average is 2-3 GB a month. I'm fully aware that data usage will continue to grow over time.
After running the math and carefully considering every single variable, I am saving $31.50 a month by giving up my AT&T UDP and going with T-Mobile. That comes out to a savings of $378 a year! And when you add up that savings year after year, the savings are huge.
Sure, signal coverage is an unknown until I actually get out there and try it out, but T-Mobile has made tremendous advancements over the last year and continues to do so. I suspect that the coverage differences will be somewhat minimal for the region I'm in.
So, even though I've been a UDP customer for years, I finally did the math and it just doesn't make sense to keep a death grip on something that is actually significantly more expensive in the end. I am super stoked though to see that AT&T is changing their policy. It's great for existing UDP customers and it's the right thing to do.
I've been a AT&T UDP guy for 7 years and I still am, at least for a few more weeks. I just decided to switch over to T-Mobile and I'm waiting on my 6s+ to arrive. When it does, my plan is to port over my AT&T number and cancel service with AT&T.
For years, I've been saying that I will never give up my UDP. However, after thoroughly crunching the numbers from every angle, I've concluded that it just isn't worth it for our (my wife and me's) particular case. By switching over to T-Mobile, we each get 10 GB of high-speed data a month and music streaming is always free. I can also freely tether as much of that 10 GB as I want, for free. I've never used more than 5 GB in a month and my average is 2-3 GB a month. I'm fully aware that data usage will continue to grow over time.
After running the math and carefully considering every single variable, I am saving $31.50 a month by giving up my AT&T UDP and going with T-Mobile. That comes out to a savings of $378 a year! And when you add up that savings year after year, the savings are huge.
Sure, signal coverage is an unknown until I actually get out there and try it out, but T-Mobile has made tremendous advancements over the last year and continues to do so. I suspect that the coverage differences will be somewhat minimal for the region I'm in.
So, even though I've been a UDP customer for years, I finally did the math and it just doesn't make sense to keep a death grip on something that is actually significantly more expensive in the end. I am super stoked though to see that AT&T is changing their policy. It's great for existing UDP customers and it's the right thing to do.
Maybe you don't remember? For a while FaceTime was WiFi only. Then when they started allowing cellular access they started with the people on tiered data plans, and us unlimited customers got it last. I don't think it was too long of a wait though. Personally I used a Cydia app to get it early, My3G I think.
Not gonna lie, this really took me by surprise! I wonder what the catch is...
I thought about it... But then I like the simplicity of the Next program and I doubled the data from 10GB to 20GB on my family plan of 3, with free spot & roll over data. I'm good where I'm at.
But congrats to those who are on unlimited contracts!
It's really a shock to see this considering how badly they want people to get off these unlimited data plans.
I guess T-Mobile has really put some pressure on them. Without the 22gb increase, it was basically like having a 5gb shared data plan, which was starting to become a problem for me and my family. I was seriously looking at leaving AT&T this year, but there wasn't any real financial benefit for me.
I'm less inclined to leave AT&T now, but I sure would like to see a tethering option.
I guess T-Mobile has really put some pressure on them. Without the 22gb increase, it was basically like having a 5gb shared data plan, which was starting to become a problem for me and my family. I was seriously looking at leaving AT&T this year, but there wasn't any real financial benefit for me.
I'm less inclined to leave AT&T now, but I sure would like to see a tethering option.
This is great--thanks for the info OP. I never thought AT&T would have budged on their original 5GB hard throttle, then I was shocked to see the hard throttle become a soft limit only on congested towers--and now even that soft limit has increased to 22GB.
The larger public is unaware of this, and I bet a ton of people gave up their unlimited plans when ordering an iPhone 6s/+
The larger public is unaware of this, and I bet a ton of people gave up their unlimited plans when ordering an iPhone 6s/+
Even T-Mobile throttles after 21GB! Way to one up T-Mo. I'm 21.7GB for the month on T-Mo and have yet to see any slow downs.
Excellent news!! Was probably going to switch to T-Mobile in the next few months and now I don't have to. I'm super excited for my 6s plus to arrive now!
Changed from my unlimited data plan to Mobile share several months ago, this news doesn't leave me regretting anything. Used to be a power user, always on my phone, now it's strictly business and I have access to wifi in places where I use my phone most.
I'll just have to whine to AT&T when my now lower data usage needs more than the $100 they are charging me for 20 GB and I'll demand 40 lol.
I'll just have to whine to AT&T when my now lower data usage needs more than the $100 they are charging me for 20 GB and I'll demand 40 lol.
man Im so glad they finally did that. I still had to leave them this gen: They won't let me change my plan in any way without giving it up (family plan vs individual, etc).
Will they support wifi calling and tethering as well? Always a great mystery to me why they jerked around their #1 customers.
Will they support wifi calling and tethering as well? Always a great mystery to me why they jerked around their #1 customers.
well to be fair, other carriers do not count music streaming data towards your plan.
I don't understand if they boosted the cap they should allow us to tether too I don't even care if it's an extra 10.00 a month...
Well, it looks like they enabled FaceTime on the unlimited plan during the summer of 2013, it was blocked to unlimited data plan users before then, I remember being frustrated by this, but I guess I never noticed when they finally enabled it since I was using an android phone on my unlimited while my iphone was on a 3gb plan.
I'm pretty upset about this. After many years of upgrading to new iPhone every year, I gave up unlimited to move to Next because I was done paying early upgrade fees and doing upgrade swaps etc. We never went over 22GB but was well over 5GB.
I honestly can't believe this. They conveniently do it after the iPhone pre order...
Yep same here, was so close to switching, but just couldnt come to terms with even a slight chance of overage.... I`m on 700min Unlimited text($20) and Unlimited data plan, with like 10k Rollover minutes..... So glad this day came ! If they allowed at least some Hot Spot usage that would help, like give us 1gig a month or something. But hey I`ll take my 22GB at Up to 300 Mbps on Band 30
