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Has anyone mentioned how AT&T is making Aio look like a cheap T-Mobile clone? Even down to subtle word choice and the magenta coloring? For that I feel it's a terrible move for AT&T, since the lawsuit DT opened against them over how the 'Magenta' color choice is a trademark they hold.
So in short, this just tells me more money and possibly spectrum for T-Mobile.

I don't think it looks anything like T-Mobile. T-Mobile is grasping at straws...they have a patent (I believe in Germany) on a certain shade of Magenta (RAL 4010) which looks nothing like the aio color. Maybe T-Mobile should try to improve network coverage instead of wasting time on frivolous lawsuits. If stupid people get confused and cant tell the two companies apart, maybe they should invest in some schooling instead of wireless service.
 
One BIG issue I have with AIO is that you only get service from AT&T Towers. They DO NOT have roaming agreements set up with other carriers.

Actually, most MVNOs on the AT&T network do get full access to domestic roaming for calls/texts. No data roaming though.
 
Actually, most MVNOs on the AT&T network do get full access to domestic roaming for calls/texts. No data roaming though.

According to their customer service reps and their coverage maps, this unfortunately doesn't appear to be the case with aio.
 
I have been using AIO for two months. I live in Texas and travel often. I just took a road trip to DC and had LTE/4g everywhere except some deep mountains valleys. I did byod with my iPhone 5 with the 40 plan. Minus tethering, AIO is as good as it gets. I have blown past my 250 MB limit with no noticeable effect. I still got full speeds, which with AIO is limited to 8 Mbps.

With my corporate discount, I was paying 76 a month with AT&T w/ unlimited data, 1000 messages, and 500 min. talk. Cancelled my contract and went to t-mobile with a corporate discount @ 42 a month with unlimited everything, high speed data throttled at 500 MB. T-mobile service was to spotty for my travels and I went hunting for another provider. Found AIO two weeks into their new business and loving it. My whole family is switching.

Could you PM me or share a screen shot here of the speed test? Do they fully lock you out at 4Mbps 4G and 8Mbps LTE?

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Thanks for clarification. Now the lines between AIO and GoPhone really are blurred for me.

GoPhone offers True 4G and LTE - VVM, International Texting, MMS etc

I'm on the $60 plan and have hit LTE speeds 30Mbps+ and everything works great...You can pay $54 for the $60 plan if you sign up for Callingmart and watch their facebook page - they offer 10% off coupon every month and that will give you:

True 4G + LTE:
- Unlimited Talk + Text (Including International Texting) + Unlimited MMS
- Visual Voicemail
- 2GB Data with 4G + LTE at full speeds
- Caller-ID
- No-Tethering and No Facetime over Cellular (Only thing you may get with AIO is Facetime over cellular - besides that its not worth it in my opinion) and Tethering will be possible again once Jailbreak for iOS 7 is out :)
So for that I don't see the need for AIO's crippled data speeds...probably because AT&T is trying to point consumers towards AIO brand where they give you less for same price as their GoPhone plans...would rather keep Post Paid customers on post paid and then have them look at AIO and see "slow speeds, half this half that" etc.

Some things to consider tho:

AT&T $40 GoPhone Plan < AIO $40 Plan (Wins due to Unlimited Minutes, 250MB vs 200MB)
AT&T $60 GoPhone Plan (GoPhone wins due to Unlimited International Texting, MMS, 2GB Full LTE Data & can be had for $54 from Callingmart.com w/ 10% off coupon) > AIO $55 Plan

AT&T GoPhone $60 plan can be purchased from Callingmart.com for $54 (Every month they have a limited time 10% off discount - use and load your phone - that money is already there for when your billing cycle starts.
 
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I have been using AIO for two months. I live in Texas and travel often. I just took a road trip to DC and had LTE/4g everywhere except some deep mountains valleys. I did byod with my iPhone 5 with the 40 plan. Minus tethering, AIO is as good as it gets. I have blown past my 250 MB limit with no noticeable effect. I still got full speeds, which with AIO is limited to 8 Mbps.

According to the AIO website, the $40 plan is for basic phones only, not for smartphones. Do they not check or enforce that?
 
According to their customer service reps and their coverage maps, this unfortunately doesn't appear to be the case with aio.

Just checked a few areas that I know do not have native coverage. They do show up as no service on the AIO map.

They also show up as no coverage on the StraighTalk map though, while I was roaming in these places last week. Hopefully this is available as an unadvertised feature like it is with ST and others.

EDIT: Just checked the post-paid coverage map and do not see coverage in these areas either.
 
According to the AIO website, the $40 plan is for basic phones only, not for smartphones. Do they not check or enforce that?

It is only enforced for phones you buy through AIO. BYOD lets you choose. I have two accounts with AIO. One was bought online and one in the store. Selected the 40 plan on both with no problems. I imagine they will enforce it more strictly down the road, but I don't see that happening for some time until there customer base is much, much larger.
 
It is only enforced for phones you buy through AIO. BYOD lets you choose. I have two accounts with AIO. One was bought online and one in the store. Selected the 40 plan on both with no problems. I imagine they will enforce it more strictly down the road, but I don't see that happening for some time until there customer base is much, much larger.

That is a great deal for people who want a smartphone and do not use much data.
 
T-Mobile's network around here (Seattle-Tacoma) seems about as good as AT&T's - I've been on both. For a family, T-Mobile can't be beat. We've got four phones, three of which have 500MB/month and one with 2.5GB/month... for a grand total of $110 monthly.

There was a short period of time where AT&T had a decent smartphone prepaid plan (10 cents a minute talk and you bundled a data plan separately). They killed that pretty quickly, and afterward seemed to keep making moves intended to drive up the minimum monthly cost for prepaid customers. I expect them to behave similarly with this new offering.
 
AT&T has towers all over the country, with pretty much complete coverage. I'm not sure which provider you'd roam to. This isn't the analog wireless days, nor is AT&T a 2nd tier provider needing to use Verizon's towers (like Sprint iirc). Out of the country on the other hand, and you just setup international roaming, or put in a foreign SIM card.

Around here? MTPCS (Cellular One of Montana). Offers coverage in a few areas, especially on the Indian Reservations, that AT&T doesn't. Net10/Straight Talk roam but don't get data at all.

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I don't think it looks anything like T-Mobile. T-Mobile is grasping at straws...they have a patent (I believe in Germany) on a certain shade of Magenta (RAL 4010) which looks nothing like the aio color. Maybe T-Mobile should try to improve network coverage instead of wasting time on frivolous lawsuits. If stupid people get confused and cant tell the two companies apart, maybe they should invest in some schooling instead of wireless service.

Trademark, not a patent, they didn't invent the colour - just used it in marketing as their trade dress. The claim probably isn't that they're infringing on the trademarked colour, but rather that they're similar enough to cause confusion and dilute the value of the trademark in the marketplace.
 
I don't think it looks anything like T-Mobile. T-Mobile is grasping at straws...they have a patent (I believe in Germany) on a certain shade of Magenta (RAL 4010) which looks nothing like the aio color. Maybe T-Mobile should try to improve network coverage instead of wasting time on frivolous lawsuits. If stupid people get confused and cant tell the two companies apart, maybe they should invest in some schooling instead of wireless service.

It is a trademark, not a patent. And it is not frivolous - trademark law is best summed up as "use it or lose it" -- if they don't defend it, they lose the right to use it exclusively.
 
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