Caution, writing a book here lol.
I've been with att for a decade and ever since the iPhone came out had been on the grandfathered unlimited data plan(GUDP) that they no longer offer. Since then I've added 2 other people to my account, one which is a GUPD and the other a single shared mobile data plan. The total was about $240 before my FAN discount which brought it down to roughly $105.
Once the latest udp's came out, which for me would come out to roughly $175 plus taxes, I thought it was a no brainer to switch because after my fan discount I would've been saving a decent chunk of change off of my bill.
Come to find out att no longer accepts the fan discount on the new plans.
After having a short debate with a coworker, who's mentality is save every penny except when it comes to high end brand names, about how with our huge fan discount(80%) no other carrier is a better option than att he mentioned how much he is paying for T-Mobile.
That got me looking into tmobiles offering and it turns out T-Mobile has great coverage in the Bay Area. They also had an amazing promotion for 2 lines of unlimited everything including tethering for $100, including tax, per month. Then they had a short promotion of an additional 3rd udp for no additional charge. Even the lte data limit before throttling was higher than att, 28gbs vs 22gbs.
3 udp's offering better services than att in the areas I mostly use my phone for $100 vs $240($105) before a FAN discount? At this point I'm on my way to a T-Mobile store to make sure this deal is real. After about a 20 minutes discussion trying to find out what the catch was I decided to purchase the promotion and figured I can cancel it if in my research there really is something horrible about the deal. I didn't want to miss out on this promo.
I'd still need to unlock to unlock my iPhones to be to work with t-mobile anyhow.
So the the very next day after submitting my requests to get my phones unlocked T-Mobile announces another promo, port over your number from another carrier and trade in your old iPhone for a free upgrade to an iPhone 7! I guess that would solve the unlock problem. Later on that day I found out about another promo which gave an additional 20% off your bill forever which would bring it down to roughly $80 per month for 3 udp.
If you're still reading I'm wrapping this up.
I told my family members who's contracts were already up to go to the T-Mobile store and upgrade their phones lol. I decided that I'd just pay my etf and moved my 6s+ over and upgrade to a 128gb 7plus.
In summary:
3 udp + tethering + all the weekly promos and hd streaming and airline wifi and more for $80 a month VS $105($175-$240) plus tax for less with att.
BYE ATT!
The only downside, which fortunately for me is a rare occasion, poor to 0 coverage in rural areas. That being said I'm actually getting more signal in certain areas than I was with att.
