I live in CO.
(Denver area)
I used to get 40 when we lived in Dallas. So it's a bit of a step back here in CO...
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Is the grandfathered unlimited data from AT&T obsolete?
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I live in CO.
(Denver area)
I used to get 40 when we lived in Dallas. So it's a bit of a step back here in CO...
Yep.
It depends on how well you take advantage of your plan. I have 5 lines and I staggered the upgrades so it's 3 one year, 2 the following year. I give the hand-me-downs iPhones to other members on our plan and i sell their old phones. So everyone is either on the latest gen or 1 year behind. Overall I am saving a lot of money because of the subsidies.
P.S. it's really important to calculate resale value into the equation. AT&Ts calculator doesn't include that so it makes mobile share / next seem better than it actually is.
I pay $73 a month for unlimited plan data, 1000 TXTS, and 450 minutes of talk. I get a corporate discount through my work. No way am I going to anything else. Work also pays for more than 1/2 the bill so it's $30 and some change out of pocket for me. I'm not switching a damn thing.
Great point. Although, to be fair, my 5s will be the first phone I sell. My 3GS and 4s are just collecting dust lol
Cue all the posts saying this is impossible, despite this hard evidence, or just accusing you of faking it.
Cue all the posts saying this is impossible, despite this hard evidence, or just accusing you of faking it.
I'm jealous. I did a test right after that and only got 5 down and 1.5 up on LTE as my desk.
I've seen 50 down at the airport. It's all about where you are.
Absolutely true, and I'm so glad I kept unlimited because of this. Of course, keep in mind that Wifi is becoming more ubiquitous too, so we have a lot more opportunities to just use some Wifi and save some data here and there.
My family has a total of 8 lines on our account. We had previously 4 "unlimited" iPhone plans.
We saved over $200 by dropping all the individual plans, and moving to a 30GB pool for the entire group. On average, we were using about 18-20 GB a month.
So if you have a ton of lines on your account, yeah you can save a ton. The other cost saving factor was the reduction in the per line cost, since it drops to about 15 bucks a line (versus the 40-50).
Saving over 200 a month, that's over 2400 a year. We opted to move to mobile share because of this.
We saved over $200 by dropping all the individual plans, and moving to a 30GB pool for the entire group. On average, we were using about 18-20 GB a month.
So if you have a ton of lines on your account, yeah you can save a ton. The other cost saving factor was the reduction in the per line cost, since it drops to about 15 bucks a line (versus the 40-50).
Saving over 200 a month, that's over 2400 a year. We opted to move to mobile share because of this.
SIAP, but I'm fine for paying for my X GB per month. But you know what? I want it all. Like the old minutes, roll that over to the next month. Didn't I pay for it? Drives me crazy that this bandwidth just magically expires month over month.
Cue all the posts saying this is impossible, despite this hard evidence, or just accusing you of faking it.
I can do another one speed test if you want and post it again immediately. There was less than 1 minute difference between the date on speediest and my upload time. Plus, how would that benefit me?
Whoa, hang on! I wasn't accusing you of that. I was saying here come all of the posts saying that you faked it. I was expecting others to do it.
Sorry that wasn't clear. I totally believe you. I think the throttling really depends a lot on where you're located, and whether your towers are particularly busy. If you're in a fairly light usage area, the carriers claim they don't have to throttle you, and maybe they actually even mean it!
Whoa, hang on! I wasn't accusing you of that. I was saying here come all of the posts saying that you faked it. I was expecting others to do it.
Sorry that wasn't clear. I totally believe you. I think the throttling really depends a lot on where you're located, and whether your towers are particularly busy. If you're in a fairly light usage area, the carriers claim they don't have to throttle you, and maybe they actually even mean it!
I know
I was saying "you" in general. I apologize, I should've expressed myself in a better way!edit: Yea, I agree with you completely. Most of the people I know here are with T-Mobile so I'm guessing their presence in this area is huge. Albeit all those people, they have very comparable LTE speeds and Coverage in the Denver area. I did a test drive when it first became available and I was very impressed.
So I really think it all comes down to how congested your area is
You are mistaken NEXT with subsidy vs no subsidy...
Subsidy (2 yr contract) or no subsidy only affect your monthly bill
NEXT is simply a interest free financing or lease program from AT&T
With NEXT, you either pay off the device in FULL over time and own the device or
You don't pay the full amount, in this case, AT&T will take back the phone
It's like lease a car or finance a car, if you lease, the car belong to dealer at the end, if you finance, the car is yours after you pay off the loan, and just like car leasing vs buying, lease almost always is more expensive over the long haul..
Exactly. There is a lot of misconception here in this thread about the Next plan. Gotta keep it sperate from the cell phone plans too as one does not have anything to do, with the other per se.
I think the decision to keep unlimited or not is just personal. Each person has to look at their bill and determine what is best for their situation. For some, especially single lines, it will likely cost more. For families with 2 or more lines, they can likely save, and sometimes save a ton.
Next Vs the, subsidy phone however is just too difficult a comparison to make. It is comparing apples to oranges. You do not really ever know how much you are actually paying for that phone with a subsidized cost on the old plans. I would bet that most, whether they realize it or not, are actually paying more than if they bought the phone outright. ATT just hides it in the way they do the old plans. That is why there are/were ETFs and 2 year contracts.
At least with Next you know exactly how much you are paying. And if you combine with a mobile share plan, you save money on that plan. You can turn it in early if you want without paying the full value of the phone just like you do with a car lease, or you have the option to buy, which can be done at any time. Why is paying the actual MSRP for a phone such a bad thing?
The worst decision I think is to use Next on an old plan. In this case, you for sure are paying too much. Don't forget that those old plans have a cost built into them to help the carrier make up for that subsidized phone they used to give. So you pay that, plus the full price of the phone. No good.
Or just buy phones used off swappa or ebay and you get an even better deal. Lol.
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