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What if I want a "Family Plan" with only 1 iPhone and 1 standard phone?
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Wow... Well then... I guess Columbia needs to tighten up on its entrance requirements.
Here is the link to the page
At&t iPhone plan information
Look at your address bar... See that? That's right, it says "/cell-phone-service/specials/iphone-info.jsp" right after the address...
Say it with me now... iphone-info.
Now, look at the rest of the page. Do you see any other mention of At&t devices that aren't the iPhone? Do you see anything that talks about non-iPhone related information?
No.
Finally. If you look at the plan information, in nice blue text it says, and I quote, "What types of plans are available for the iPhone 3G?" Hmm... I wonder what this page is referring to?
Case in point. The page is dedicated to the iPhone, and it should be all around common sense that the Family Plans depicted represent having 2 lines and each with an iPhone 3G.
You started getting all pissy with people for being "rude" to you when it was your simple lack of common sense in reading that led to your confusion. You had no grounds to call anyone rude simply because YOU can't get it. If calling it as I see it makes me a jackass, I happily accept the title.
I guess I just don't understand why you feel the need take such a smug condescending attitude and tone when all I did was ask for some clarification.
Whatever it is that makes you feel the need to overcompensate to this degree in order to make yourself feel superior, I hope you find some comfort one day...
I agree. That is what they did the first time around and it made plenty of sense. Kind of surprising with the new tack--the prices are eyepopping to anyone, even if you are getting a lot.
I thoroughly agree with this point. No matter how much common sense anyone has, the marketing literature from today's release is ridiculously vague with the family plan - rooted in the fact that AT&T made the improper assumption that everyone in a family plan would get an iPhone.
The true way to address this would have been to give the normal family plan rates with a strong emphasis (something like $30 extra for each iPhone line) on the modification to the traditional plan. But then, I'm sure that the average family with 5 lines can easily throw down $1k on everyone's phones each year and an extra $150 per month on data.
An additional piece of those charts would have been great as well (Current Customers: Add an iPhone to your current plan for $30).
Their pre-marketing "rumors" were vastly superior marketing than anything they have come out with now. Just like the stupid "iReady" marketing slogan - whom do they hire? I'm a software engineer, and I have better marketing skills.
I know that the current family plan pricing is vague, but the part that confuses me is how it was the same for the 1G iPhone and not nearly as many people complained last year. What changed?
I am on the family plan that was originally mentioned in here with the 1400 minute family plan ( My mom's phone being a regular line and my iPhone) It comes out to 119.99 plus the $20 for unlimited text on my line. I called AT&T and she said the only thing that would change to my plan would be the $10 increase in the data plan, which is provided above in my post. The page, which a few people have cleared up, with all the iPhone plans and family plans is for iPhone lines, thus being the reason why it is more expensive.
Gosh there was a lot of uncalled for statements made in this thread. Mean and hateful
Agreed.