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More Details on AT&T's Data Plan Changes for iPhone and iPad
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You'll get more for less.
Look around a little bit and you can save 25% off your Sprint bill, regardless of who you work for. Plus annual phone upgrades.
gopherhockey
macrumors regular
If they all do then that might be a different story... certainly there would be reason to switch our policy. My comments were for the here and now, and the immediate reaction is they lose out period. I seriously wonder if ALL will follow AT&Ts lead.
Seems like there will be at least one that has a business plan, or maybe they will still work out corporate plans with big customers. Then its not an issue.
A roll-over scenario like the iPad will have might make more sense... (or would be more safe) Its the incredible overage charges that were the problem.. you can't count on employees to watch those types of things.
ghostface147
macrumors 601
um...here is a look at AT&T's first quarter profits for 2010..
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/...d=news_view&newsId=20100421005930&newsLang=en
something tells me they're doing pretty well, without these tiered data plans..
particularly this remark:
"Were off to a great start to the year, and our fundamental outlook for the business continues to be quite positive, said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and chief executive officer.
so lets stop acting like a strong consumer advocate/rights movement is unnecessary in this country. It's people like you who stick up for billionaires who want to become trillionaries because you either are one yourself, or dont know enough for your own good to realize that as much as those pretty little commercials might lead you to believe it, big business interest and consumer interests are about as polarized in this country as tea partiers and people with common sense.
AT&T needs to be more USER friendly...
What I'd like to see as an optional feature from AT&T would upon hitting the cap have AT&T temporarily disconnect your data instead of still providing service at a extremely higher rate.
Or bare minimum, send a FREE SMS (phone uses) alert/warning the moment you've used all your data.
To let you know you're either no longer data-active or are over-charging for the remainder of your cycle (and provide a restart date in text).
What I'd like to see as an optional feature from AT&T would upon hitting the cap have AT&T temporarily disconnect your data instead of still providing service at a extremely higher rate.
Or bare minimum, send a FREE SMS (phone uses) alert/warning the moment you've used all your data.
To let you know you're either no longer data-active or are over-charging for the remainder of your cycle (and provide a restart date in text).
gopherhockey
macrumors regular
+1
Its like banks and their overdraft charges though.. they will make serous cash off people not watching their data plan. Thats where their network upgrades are going to be funded by. Can't wait to see the accidental $5k monthly bill stories pop up.
From everything I've read, if you stop at any point your data plan on the iPad, then when you restart your service, you will be on the new plans.
Because in the case of ATT it is. Dropped calls, 20 dollar texting rape fees. Good choice of carrier, Jobs. You really care about your consumers.
Yeah, stop voicing concerns and opinions! Fanboys only want to read happy posts.
It's an AT&T one-cent convenience charge.
They're letting iPhone uses pay an extra penny to access those SWEET-SWEEEEET data-overcharge rates 50MB earlier than iPad users.
Hmmm. My wife and I can drop our data plan costs by $15/month on each of our iPhones, and then I can get the 2GB plan for my iPad 3G when it arrives, and I'll still save $5/month.
Yeah, I can see where some people aren't happy about it, but those people were already well outside the norm anyway. I'd much rather pay a reasonable amount for my usage than pay an exorbitant fee because I have to cover network costs for the people sucking down 80 GB/month on their iPhone.
Yeah, I can see where some people aren't happy about it, but those people were already well outside the norm anyway. I'd much rather pay a reasonable amount for my usage than pay an exorbitant fee because I have to cover network costs for the people sucking down 80 GB/month on their iPhone.
Liquorpuki
macrumors 68020
I'm confused now. I thought customers that already had the unlimited iPad subscription would be allowed to keep it
jacksparmo
macrumors newbie
So, really, it is a contract. They went on and on about having a month-to-month service for the iPad, but then change the service. If we cancel our non-contractual-contract, we lose the unlimited plan forever?
How is that legal?
blen
macrumors regular
sounds about right. seriously though...what the? seriously!
/dev/toaster
macrumors 68020
Awesome bait and switch! Thanks a lot ... now I know why you were so willing to give accounts with no contracts. This way you can rape me anytime you want.
AT&T, your days are numbered ... soon as the iPhone and iPad is available on another network you can bet your sweet ass I will switch THAT day.
AT&T, your days are numbered ... soon as the iPhone and iPad is available on another network you can bet your sweet ass I will switch THAT day.
hierobryan
macrumors 6502a
I would just like to say F*CK AT&T! That is all.
(the * is a U)
(the * is a U)
Plutonius
macrumors G3
What are the corporations going to do when all the cell services have this tiered pricing. I guess they will have to change their policy
.I see your point and wish we had that here in the states, not only for wireless but broadband too. Unfortunately, it's what we get for being such a big country. All these places that have super fast, super cheap are super small compared to us ( no pun intended). No if there were a few companies per cluster of states, then we'd have a different story, but there are only a few that control it all. *Sigh*
Instead of requiring the user to manually bump their service up from 200MB plan to 2GB plan when their usage exceeds 200MB, why can't AT&T automatically move the 200MB customers to the 2GB plan (and charge $25 instead of $15) for any month where the user's data consumption exceeds 200MB?
gopherhockey
macrumors regular
What are the corporations going to do when all the cell services have this tiered pricing. I guess they will have to change their policy
It would seem a logical step IF that happens, but we don't know that yet. Once we see those announcements we can cross that bridge... but again the point is AT&T is first and there ARE currently other options.
For the sake of reality lets just assume that there are other carriers that have unlimited plans when AT&T does not. The clear choice is another carrier. The big loser is AT&T, and by default (at least for now) iPhone.
Or they could stop reimbursing their employees entirely and let them fend for themselves. Thats a more likely next step.
Plutonius
macrumors G3
Guess what. I have a grandfathered low monthly ISP cost but, if I make any changes, I lose the low cost forever. That's the way things work.
Cynicalone
macrumors 68040
There has always been a cap, it just AT&T never really did anything about it. Now this makes it easier to enforce.