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AT&T Drops Cost of 10GB Mobile Share Plan

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WOW!!!

B-Sides

Feb 1, 2014, 2:36 PM
I just called at&t and it looks like I am going to be switching to this plan tomorrow. They confirmed that my company discount would also apply to this as well so the plan would only be $80 and $15 per phone!!! Incredible
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Jellz

Feb 1, 2014, 2:41 PM
One thing to keep in mind is that it's $15 if the line is off-contract, something I didn't recognize at first.

Still, pretty amazing. Just not enough details yet. What's the contract pricing, still $40? Did it drop to $30 again (which would be cool still)?
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jommick

Feb 1, 2014, 3:41 PM
Hi - I work for AT&T and can confirm by the internal document regarding this change that you can have the new rate if you have an existing 2 year contract activated prior to Feburary 2, 2014. Any phones activated after that date would be $40 a month with a two year contract
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Jellz

Feb 1, 2014, 3:44 PM
Interesting. So if you upgrade and renew the contract after 2/2/14, would it stay at $15, or jump to $40?
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jommick

Feb 1, 2014, 4:07 PM
It would go to $40 if you decided to upgrade with a 2 year contract after tomorrow. If you upgraded with AT&T Next, you'd have the $15 plus whatever installment payment you have for your phone - it's more geared towards pushing Installment plans as opposed to 2 year contracts.
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B-Sides

Feb 1, 2014, 7:03 PM
Its an awesome deal any way you slice it! You get a new phone every year without contract and at&t network!

For me I need the ability to travel with my phone and T-Mobile is still not a viable option. Probably will never be because DT wants to sell them so bad that whomever buys them will almost certainly have to raise costs to pay off their HUGE debt!
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quinnsdaddy11

Feb 1, 2014, 6:42 PM
No it's $15 on or off contract
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Jellz

Feb 1, 2014, 6:49 PM
As much as I wish that were true:

"Pricing for Value plan w/ 10 GB data ($100/mo.) plus per smartphone pricing ($15/mo.) on no annual service contract or on an installment agmt."

Period. Stop. End of sentence. Basically, this plan amounts to a $25 savings for being off-contract, as opposed to the $15 savings that is on the lower data tiers. That's it. AT&T has done a good job dressing it up as a huge change, but it really isn't, unless existing contract customers can get this $15 pricing and keep it. jommick seems to imply that in the other comment, but I'll remain skeptical until I see the proof myself.
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B-Sides

Feb 1, 2014, 7:17 PM
Jeliz, existing customer CAN and WILL get this pricing!!! Because they purchased service before 2/2 they will get each phone dropped to $15 per month. If you sign up for service tomorrow on contract you will have to pay $40 per line or $15 for no contract.
I spoke to a very knowledgeable rep that went over every detail of the promotion with me and I specifically asked if I would be eligible.
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Jellz

Feb 2, 2014, 8:39 AM
Well now that I've seen the documents from AT&T myself (god dangit why am I always the last one?), yeah. Still won't let you keep the $15 line price if you upgrade with a contract after today, though, but you can get most phones on Next for under $25.
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B-Sides

Feb 1, 2014, 7:01 PM
Jeliz you are correct and also wrong🙂 If you are IN contract and switch tomorrow you WILL get the $15 per line cost. But if you sign up for service after tomorrow with a contract you will pay $40 per line. I spoke in great length to an at&t rep and I will be getting each line for $15 even though I just upgraded not too long ago!

Still, if you do the at&t next program you are month to month and you get to exchange your phone every year. This is something I have been looking into because they also have a promotion that allows customers in contract to switch to this program now and get a new phone!
I just hope T-Mobile keeps kicking the Big Blue Bear because I am loving at&t even more right now!!!
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SublimeDavid

Feb 1, 2014, 11:53 PM
Gurantee even after at&t dropping prices like this people will still find something to complain about, they have nothing better to do in life.
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Versed

Feb 2, 2014, 1:18 AM
espeically the Sprintards, who will complain its uncompetative and want the government to stop it.
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B-Sides

Feb 2, 2014, 8:04 AM
What cracks me up is that those who complain have probably never had at&t service. I changed my plan when I woke up this morning and the customer service was top notch! I immediately got through to a rep and she was quick to change my plan!
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acdc1a

Feb 2, 2014, 10:31 AM
The only people who can and should be complaining are the people like myself who have someone on their plan who could blow through data caps no matter how large. Fortunately T-Mobile lets me put unlimited data on that line and I keep a reasonable 2.5GB on my other lines.

The good news here is we're taking steps toward bigger and bigger buckets for less money which could lead to the "U" word that both AT&T and Verizon hate.
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B-Sides

Feb 2, 2014, 12:10 PM
I think the "U" word will be UNFORTUNATE. The reason I say this is because companies like AT&T and Verizon each have over 115+ million customers and don't have the spectrum available to accommodate the load this would put on their network!
The reason TMobile can offer this now is they have the spectrum available to them but if they were to double in size their network would be seriously strained and they would have issues similar to what AT&T had a few years back. Don't be fooled, TMobiles parent company DT knows this and its precisely the reason they want to part with the company now. They are making very radical moves that limit profits but make their customers very happy. When I say limit, they are making money but nothing like their co...
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acdc1a

Feb 3, 2014, 10:01 AM
You've bought the spectrum lie hook, line, and sinker. Certainly there isn't an unlimited amount of spectrum, but there's plenty to allocate to advanced wireless data even at the big 2. The problems you speak of are a result of a shaky roll-out, higher than anticipated adoption of technology, and not properly allocating available spectrum.

There are a couple of problems with the spectrum argument. The first is simple, the VAST majority of people won't use substantially more data just because they have unlimited. The next is if people did do it, even with fewer customers T-Mobile and Sprint wouldn't be able to keep up because those people used substantially more data. It just doesn't gel.

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T Bone

Feb 3, 2014, 11:19 AM
Unlimited ISN'T feasible today, for any company, in fact, 'unlimited' is a lie.....

Let's assume that you decided to do a test to see just how 'unlimited' T-Mobile really is....turn on Netflix and stream non stop for an entire month......at the same time, have Pandora running in the background.....as your data usage climbs into the stratosphere, first 10 GB, then 100 GB, then 250GB....they are going to, no matter what they might claim, step in and block your data....to say that data is 'unlimited' doesn't literally mean that there is no cap, it means only that the cap is set high enough that they assume that very few people would be able to reach it. When your data usage gets so massive that it starts to interfere with other people's co...
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brad162

Feb 3, 2014, 1:49 PM
Well regardless, T-Mobile is still much more consumer friendly, and most of the time is.

There are months i use 2GB, but others i use 35GB... and guess what? my bill is the same every month (and still about half of what i'd pay Verizon or AT&T for 4GB of data)

Either way you slice it, T-Mobile is still a much better deal, and i'll take my savings and just grab a prepaid phone if i'd ever need it for VZW.

I have a pre-paid flip phone on page plus in the glovebox that i've been adding credit too since 2006 (just $10 every 120 days), and i've maybe used it 2-3 times just to get some usage on it. I've never actually needed it.
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DarkStar

Feb 3, 2014, 3:17 PM
T-mobile isn't customer friendly becauase they have the worst coverage of all the networks. Yeah I could get T-mobile then I would be paying for something I can't use. Please explain to me how its customer friendly?
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Versed

Feb 4, 2014, 12:41 AM
And add this to the conversation, the topic isn't about T-Mobile, I'm tired of the constant posts on how great their un-limited plan is, I'm happy for them.
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T Bone

Feb 3, 2014, 6:03 PM
IF you have coverage, T-Mobile is okay....the problem is that outside major urban centers, T-Mobile doesn't have good coverage.
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B-Sides

Feb 3, 2014, 7:17 PM
And don't forget that T-Mobile relies on at&t's network through roaming agreements!
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Versed

Feb 3, 2014, 9:41 PM
TMO roams onto AT&T's network if they have no market presense in the area, and more then not, its for calls and texting, Not sure how well they allow them to use their data, and if they do, how they prioritize it on their towers. Still its better then nothing.

In anycase, and back to the subject, you can thank T-Mobile for basically forcing AT&T to adjust their plan pricing.
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Zpike

Feb 3, 2014, 1:50 PM
Then name one instance of Sprint capping anyone's unlimited data... ever. Name just one.
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DarkStar

Feb 3, 2014, 3:18 PM
Have you ever used sprint? On 3G? Its capped to nothing. Its barely even usable. And in their Terms and Conditions it does say they can throttle or block your data if they chose to.
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acdc1a

Feb 3, 2014, 3:45 PM
Here we go talking theory. I had a Sprint air card for years before they implemented caps. I regularly used 80+ GB without issues.

As for T-Mobile, I have used 50-60 GB mostly in Netflix without any issue. As for LTE speed and coverage, they are the fastest and best in the area.
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DarkStar

Feb 3, 2014, 4:05 PM
I'm not talking about theory. I have used sprint. And how can you use 80+ GB on dial up. That makes no sense. Yes you can use that much on T-Mobile because they have very few subscribers. But if you were to triple that then the network would be so congested that it wouldn't work. Look at VZW. They were extremely fast with no one on the LTE Network. But now that 70 percent of their customer use LTE they speeds have fallen a lot. Its not theory it pure fact. Look around.
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Zpike

Feb 4, 2014, 3:59 AM
I have Sprint, and typically I get around 1.5 Mb/s on 3G. That's much faster than dial up. Stop exaggerating.
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T Bone

Feb 4, 2014, 1:40 PM
If you don't think that if your usage ever becomes so big that it creates problems for the network that Sprint won't step in to do something about it, you're awfully naive. Let's suppose that your data usage became so massive that you were using up all the bandwidth for your region and no one else could get coverage.....you don't think Sprint would step in put a stop to it? Come on man, be reasonable, any promise of 'unlimited' has an implicit qualification that your usage has to be REASONABLE....it's the same thing with an 'all you can eat restaurant'....it's 'all your can eat' provided that you don't eat so much that no one else can eat....if you start gulping down entire steam tables, then they are going to do something about it.
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B-Sides

Feb 4, 2014, 7:03 PM
I like your analogy!
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Zpike

Feb 14, 2014, 12:41 PM
I once went into a restaurant because they advertised all you can eat sirloin tips for 7.99. They were very enthusiastic about bringing out the first 3 plates. And if they hadn't made me wait about 30 min for the 4th plate I would have stopped there. But I stayed until I had consumed 8 plates of sirloin tips. Naturally, when I drove by the next day the sign was gone. But I did get all I could eat.

But when talking about data nothing has ever been unlimited... ever. For instance, if Comcast offers me unlimited data at 1.5 Mb/s, I can consume 90 Mb's in one minute, and 5400 Mb's in one hour, which comes to 675 MB. In a day, I can consume 16,200 MB's of data. And in one 30 day billing cycle I can consume 486,000 MB's of data, which comes to...
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DarkStar

Feb 3, 2014, 3:19 PM
You bought in to the unlimited lie. LOL. That is funny. Sprint proves that unlimited isn't possilble. Have you ever used 3G on Sprint. Their data is choked up and is barely even usable. Now imagine if they had twice the amount of people on the network. you would have no data at all. People like me who use their data as a hotspot and download movies and tv shows are the reason why unlimited data can't work on todays technology.
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Jarahawk

Feb 3, 2014, 3:34 PM
Taking steps back to the future? Unlimited for 29.99 is where it should have stayed.
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Zpike

Feb 3, 2014, 1:46 PM
ATT is a greedy piece of crap company with the worst customer service possible. They plan to ruin every thing on their quest to gouge their customers. If you think this little ruse is leading to cheaper prices... just wait. They'll start giving you the data for cheap and then censoring your content. And if you want anything that's not ATT sanctioned they will charge you through the nose for it. ATT has already filed a patent for the technology that will do this. They are an evil company and I hope everyone leaves them and they go under.
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DarkStar

Feb 3, 2014, 3:11 PM
Isn't every company? They are all greedy. T-mobile is too. So is Sprint. So is Wal-mart. So is Costco. So is Apple, So is microsoft, So is Google. What is your point?
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Jarahawk

Feb 3, 2014, 4:29 PM
Exactly.
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T Bone

Feb 4, 2014, 11:22 AM
In the last JD Power survey, at&t ranked FIRST in customer service, not last.
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B-Sides

Feb 4, 2014, 7:01 PM
I don't know of what they ranked but I do know that when I have an issue it's resolved quickly and the reps have been very pleasant!
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T Bone

Feb 4, 2014, 11:13 PM
Well truthfully if you look at the actual break down of the ratings, the four major carriers are separated by less than one standard deviation, so that means that it has basically been a 4 way tie for last place for years. All 4 carriers get failing grades, the 'winner', which give how close the scores are to each other could be determined by a coin toss, is the one who gets the highest failing grade.
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B-Sides

Feb 6, 2014, 6:24 PM
I have had every carrier since 97' and for customer service I think AT&T and Verizon were the best. To me AT&T has been a better company than the others but its because they work the best where I travel and I haven't had any issues with customer service.
Ironically the worst was the company that is getting all the praise right now, Tmobile. I had issue after issue with their service and although their customer service was good they were just not in the places I needed them. I found I was roaming off AT&T most of the time so when it came time to switch, I knew where I wanted to go.
Also, since I am now saving on my plan we just added another line of service for a family member and since I bought the phone outright (Nokia 520 prepaid) I o...
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Zpike

Feb 14, 2014, 12:51 PM
I remember when it seemed like JD Power was ranking Sprint #1 every year and I had never met a happy Sprint customer. Their rankings are worthless in my mind. My opinion of ATT is based on my observations of what they are doing in the tech industry, my previous business relationship with them, my personal experience with their customers, the experiences my friends and family have had as their customers, and my own personal experience as a customer. And I would honestly sell everything in my house and replace it all with nothing but Apple products before I would do business with ATT again.
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BKS3

Feb 5, 2014, 11:45 AM
The plans are great, definitely a step in the right direction. Btw, don't feed the trolls. This guy probably works for verizon and he's just salty.
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Jarahawk

Feb 3, 2014, 3:26 PM
It amazes me that anyone would be pleased to learn that they have been over paying for a service and are finally going to be paying less.
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