Theoretical maximum of EDGE is 473kbps, so 500k is barely 3G. It's barely good enough for graphic intensive web pages, and nowhere near good enough for things like Netflix
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Ok att you win. Take my unlimited plan this is a better deal.
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Theoretical maximum of EDGE is 473kbps, so 500k is barely 3G. It's barely good enough for graphic intensive web pages, and nowhere near good enough for things like Netflix
Who cares what the theoretical maximum is compared to real world speeds. I mean hell, the first gen LTE networks theoretical maximum is 100mbps... and... who cares?
It used to be that edge was around 128kbps. Being throttled to 500kbps on 3G is more than adequate to browse the web, music streaming, etc for most anyone besides those who think a mobile phone is their own personal netflix HD theater
Also that's just 3G, if you're throttled while getting LTE you get around 1-2mbps... more than enough for netflix abusers.
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Okay, so someone help me out here to make sure i'm not making a huge mistake.
Currently, I have the following:
1 iPhone with Unlimited Data
1 iPhone with 3gb Data
1 iPad with 3gb Data
After adding in Voice+text and 24% discount, plan currently comes out to ~$190-195 dollars a month
On these new plans, let's say I go with the 30gb Mobile Share plan. After adding everything up, that comes out to ~$195 per month for 2 iPhones and an iPad before discount. Since the 30gb mobile value plan is $120, a 24% discount would be $31.20, thus bringing my monthly bill to $163.80. Am I doing that right?
Okay, so someone help me out here to make sure i'm not making a huge mistake.
Currently, I have the following:
1 iPhone with Unlimited Data
1 iPhone with 3gb Data
1 iPad with 3gb Data
After adding in Voice+text and 24% discount, plan currently comes out to ~$190-195 dollars a month
On these new plans, let's say I go with the 30gb Mobile Share plan. After adding everything up, that comes out to ~$195 per month for 2 iPhones and an iPad before discount. Since the 30gb mobile value plan is $120, a 24% discount would be $31.20, thus bringing my monthly bill to $163.80. Am I doing that right?
Who cares what the theoretical maximum is compared to real world speeds. I mean hell, the first gen LTE networks theoretical maximum is 100mbps... and... who cares?
It used to be that edge was around 128kbps. Being throttled to 500kbps on 3G is more than adequate to browse the web, music streaming, etc for most anyone besides those who think a mobile phone is their own personal netflix HD theater
Also that's just 3G, if you're throttled while getting LTE you get around 1-2mbps... more than enough for netflix abusers.
I'll admit I never got 473 on EDGE, but I have gotten around 300, especially in the days before iPhones were every where sucking data. On 3G, I typically get closer to 3mbps. I have been throttled on LTE, and I get nowhere near 1-2mbps. Usually it's capped right at 500kbps for me.
Oh and Netflix isn't abusing the system just because you say it is.
Anyway, the real advantage to these plans are higher caps + sanctioned tethering, which would allow me to actually use most of the 40GBs (the plan I intend to switch to)
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I take it that's for a 4-line family share plan right?
Nope, you guys get the finger.
It's just like how 16GB iPhone customers don't get a free bump up to 32GB but people who pay $100 more to Apple now get bumped up to 64GB... if you want the double data offer you need to be paying ATT at least $130/mo (as well as line service charges of $15 - 40/line).
I think you're looking at it wrong.... You only get the discount off the plan itself not the devices....so you would be looking at 120-24% which would be 91.20. Factor in each device cost...if you signed contracts before feb of this year it's 15 dollars per each phone and 10 for tablet. If you signed contracts after feb of this year you would be looking at 40 per device.
So let's say you signed contract before you're looking at 91.20, plus 30 for both phones and 10 for tablet. Making it 131.20 before taxes. Also with these mobile share plans it includes tethering so you might look at canceling the 10 tablet and it would be 121.20. Hope that helps
Wow, you're quite full of yourself, aren't you? You've been registered here longer than I have. Congrats for that. That might mean something if my forum registration date was the same as my DOB.
And your suggestion that people sell their unlimited phone plans by giving up their phone number is pretty ridiculous as well. The going rate for that on eBay is $400 or less, and with this latest news and lots of people expressing interest in dropping their unlimited plans for one of these new deals, that eBay price will only go down. Too much hassle involved (setting up a 3-way call with the AT&T rep and the stranger you're selling your account to), and giving up your phone number will be undesirable for a lot of people. But if your time isn't worth much, maybe it's still worth exploring.
I will never give up my unlimited data. I used to work for the fruit company which had unlimited data for both domestic and international.
This is the only reason that I kept AT&T despite its poor signal in my house.
I am paying $64.99 for unlimited international/domestic LTE with 24% corporate discount since my new company also uses AT&T.
If your company uses AT&T as corporate cell phone service, simply ask your IT to add your phone number to the corporate plan and enable unlimited international data roaming. When you leave the company just keep the data plan and you will have a unlimited international/domestic data.
This is the only reason that I kept AT&T despite its poor signal in my house.
I am paying $64.99 for unlimited international/domestic LTE with 24% corporate discount since my new company also uses AT&T.
If your company uses AT&T as corporate cell phone service, simply ask your IT to add your phone number to the corporate plan and enable unlimited international data roaming. When you leave the company just keep the data plan and you will have a unlimited international/domestic data.
the 15gb plan essentially doubling to 30 gb is 130 not 120 but you do get 24% off of that price. The tab is 10 dollars a month regardless if on contract or not but the smart phones is where you have to keep in mind right now as long as you renewed your contract prior to Feb 2014 they will bring you in on the 15 dollars per smartphone if you renewed on a 2 year since then the line charge is 40 dollars in order to keep it at the 15 you have to buy at full price or renew using next.
Essentially your plan cost is 130 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 170 a month plus tax not including your discount of 24%. If you renew contracts on two year its 130 + 10 + 40 + 40 = $220 not including your discount.
Use the following site for help with pricing http://www.myattrpc.com only thing you guys would have to do is know if you are on 2 year or if you'll be allowed in on the 15 dollars per smartphone line
it also lets you add in corporate discount.
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Logged into mine earlier they are listing them as 30GB options but you'll be able to assure you have the plan by looking at the total cost. The 15GB option where you essentially get 30 GB of data is 130 plus per line charge.
Essentially your plan cost is 130 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 170 a month plus tax not including your discount of 24%. If you renew contracts on two year its 130 + 10 + 40 + 40 = $220 not including your discount.
Use the following site for help with pricing http://www.myattrpc.com only thing you guys would have to do is know if you are on 2 year or if you'll be allowed in on the 15 dollars per smartphone line
it also lets you add in corporate discount.
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Logged into mine earlier they are listing them as 30GB options but you'll be able to assure you have the plan by looking at the total cost. The 15GB option where you essentially get 30 GB of data is 130 plus per line charge.
Eh, not really. It costs a lot of $$$ to cover America.
You should blame AT&T and Verizon for charging ridiculous prices, although their LTE networks are very large and cover a lot.
So how does one get new phones if one was to switch to mobile share? Full price? Bring your own? Next 12/18??? If next, how much does that monthly price add on to the service fee??
Retail cost devided by 20/24 depending on if you go with next 12/18. Remember, next 12/18 only signify the upgrade dates, not payoff timeframe. But you're right, those methods are exactly how you upgrade.
When I saw this plan i was like WWWWHHHOOOAAA, ATT is REALLY REALLY, trying to get people off the grandfathered unlimited plan for the iPhone.
I can understand why people would want to change now that ATT has doubled on the data, it is very attractive.
I cant say with a straight face that its worth keeping the unlimited plan with ATT doubling down on the data. If your throttled at 5GBs to 2G speeds, yours not going to get anywhere with 2G speeds. You'd be lucky to get to 1GB on 2G data speeds in a months period.
I can understand why people would want to change now that ATT has doubled on the data, it is very attractive.
I cant say with a straight face that its worth keeping the unlimited plan with ATT doubling down on the data. If your throttled at 5GBs to 2G speeds, yours not going to get anywhere with 2G speeds. You'd be lucky to get to 1GB on 2G data speeds in a months period.
I heard someone mention that if you signed your contract before February of this year it would only be $15. Is that true?
It makes this even more attractive as it would save me an additional $300 since I have 1 more year since I got the note 3 10/2013
It makes this even more attractive as it would save me an additional $300 since I have 1 more year since I got the note 3 10/2013
This for sure ^ What's weird is I have 5 lines on a family plan, which all 5 are iPhones and are "grandfathered" unlimited. Not one of the lines use less than 5gb's a month. On average we hit 8~15gb a month per line and have never been throttled by AT&T. I do speed test frequently to verify ever since a couple years ago when people started talking about AT&T throttling on over 5gb of data on the unlimited plans. I wonder if it's because we are all grandfathered or if they just do the throttling to some and not to others?
It wouldn't surprise me if they only throttle the serious abusers, those tethering and consuming 10-20-30GB per month or more. I remember reading this dude using it for his home internet and with Netflix and such he was hitting 100GB per month. Only did it for 2 months until he got throttled.
Everyone on unlimited is grandfathered. If you're truly never throttled, then you're very lucky. I got throttled the instant I hit 5GBs, even before it registered in OLAM.
Used to be able to bypass the throttle limit on non-LTE phones by using the acds.voicemail APN, but with the iPhone 5 and newer, only the "phone" APN works.
I switched tmobile and and it's been awesome. I pay $160 for 2x unlimited high speed iPhones, 1x 1gb high speed data iPhone and 1x 5GB of high speed data for the iPad. All includes unlimited talk, text, international texting, wifi calling and tethering. Compared to my old plan with att where I paid $190 a month for only one line of unlimited data (capped at 5gb) and 2 lines of 200MB data and only 700 minutes, T-Mobile is a bargin.
I already used 25GB of data on my iPhone 6 plus since I got it last week. No slowdowns at all, in fact, I love the ability to tether too.
I already used 25GB of data on my iPhone 6 plus since I got it last week. No slowdowns at all, in fact, I love the ability to tether too.
I've done the math a few times, so hopefully I'm not missing anything. I'm currently on a Family Share 700 plan with 4 lines and I'm contemplating biting the bullet on one of these plans.
My current plan:
AT&T Family Share 700
$60.00 base plan
$30.00 unlimited texting plan
$29.97 additional line fees ($9.99 per line x 3)
$120.00 data ($30.00 per line x 4)
= $239.97 TOTAL
I'm the only line on my family plan with grandfathered unlimited data, so I went back through my usage history for the past year and I use somewhere between 5 - 10 gigseek of data a month. This was surprising to me because 1) I only watch vine, the occasional YouTube video, and check my email and read websites, and 2) because they've never throttled my speeds. So I decided I should probably go for the $130 plan for 30 gigs.
AT&T Mobile Share Value with Next 12
$130.00 base plan
$ 60.00 line access charges (15.00 x 4 lines w/ AT&T Next)
$150.00 AT&T Next 12 ($37.50 x 4 lines)
= $340.00 TOTAL
Is this correct? This is assuming everyone on my account upgrades to an iPhone 6 64gb, which is likely. It does technically work out cheaper because I didn't factor in the $299.99 upgrade x 4 lines in my current plan, if we chose to stick with the traditional 2-year contracts. Plus, we get the benefit of trading in our phones every 12 months instead of having to wait 24.
Divided amongst the four of us, it's only $85.00 a month, plus whatever the taxes and surcharges are.
That is, if I've done all that math properly. AT&T has so many programs going (Mobile Share, Next, keeping 2-year contracts on the table, etc.) that I'm always afraid I've overlooked something that's going to bite me in the end.
My current plan:
AT&T Family Share 700
$60.00 base plan
$30.00 unlimited texting plan
$29.97 additional line fees ($9.99 per line x 3)
$120.00 data ($30.00 per line x 4)
= $239.97 TOTAL
I'm the only line on my family plan with grandfathered unlimited data, so I went back through my usage history for the past year and I use somewhere between 5 - 10 gigs
eek of data a month. This was surprising to me because 1) I only watch vine, the occasional YouTube video, and check my email and read websites, and 2) because they've never throttled my speeds. So I decided I should probably go for the $130 plan for 30 gigs.AT&T Mobile Share Value with Next 12
$130.00 base plan
$ 60.00 line access charges (15.00 x 4 lines w/ AT&T Next)
$150.00 AT&T Next 12 ($37.50 x 4 lines)
= $340.00 TOTAL
Is this correct? This is assuming everyone on my account upgrades to an iPhone 6 64gb, which is likely. It does technically work out cheaper because I didn't factor in the $299.99 upgrade x 4 lines in my current plan, if we chose to stick with the traditional 2-year contracts. Plus, we get the benefit of trading in our phones every 12 months instead of having to wait 24.
Divided amongst the four of us, it's only $85.00 a month, plus whatever the taxes and surcharges are.
That is, if I've done all that math properly. AT&T has so many programs going (Mobile Share, Next, keeping 2-year contracts on the table, etc.) that I'm always afraid I've overlooked something that's going to bite me in the end.
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I use around 9 gb a month on my unlimited plan. So, I'm using 4+ gb on "2G" speeds.