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AT&T CFO Sees Tiered Pricing Future for Carriers

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Going to hold onto my unlimited plan for dear life.

justfinethanku

Apr 21, 2010, 2:33 PM
My contract say's I can upgrade every 24 months and extend the contract without making any changes. I'll simply refuse to switch away from my unlimited rate plan.

Unfortunatly they will probably come up with some way to yank the choice out of my hands.
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CellStudent

Apr 21, 2010, 2:49 PM
All carriers can make mandatory changes to their pricing plans.

Their only handicap is they have to let you out of your contract with no fees- a small price to pay for dumping a customer who uses $200 in bandwidth every month and only pays $29.99 for their service plan!

You can bet your hat that AT&T and any other carrier that moves to tiered data pricing will put a "change plans or leave" letter in the mailbox to all the excessive users on the network.

Light users SHOULD pay less then heavy users, just like almost every other non-internet industry on earth.
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Versed

Apr 21, 2010, 3:50 PM
Except whom is the light users, and who is the heavy user? The media is blanketed with iPhone and similar phone adds which sux down the data, now you use it like the tv commercial, you get screwed. Better of building up your network to handle data then to bitch about not being able to handle it. OK if 2% of the customers are overtly abusive, go after them, and leave the rest of us alone. I see this more or a way to yank more money out of us, not as they so claimed.
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flagrantmisuse

Apr 21, 2010, 4:22 PM
i kind of like this idea. it follows the same principle as the excessive off network rule. w/ att if more than 50% of your usage is roaming on a differnet proveder(not necessaily international but u.s. carriers that allow shared roaming) then you are asked to find another company and let out of your contract.

if companies made just those users pay for what they are using or say bubbye that would make things more affordable.
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Jayshmay

Apr 21, 2010, 6:36 PM
That's a good analogy.
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CellStudent

Apr 21, 2010, 4:31 PM
Versed said:
Better off building up your network to handle data than to bitch about not being able to handle it.


Even BETTER, charge the heavy data users more $$$, so you have more revenue to build the network up...

As for deciding who is the heavy user and who is the light user, as long as the defining point is based on MB consumed and not something ridiculous like what type of device you own, it doesn't really matter where the tier points are set. They just need to be priced consistently per MB across the board for all users on all devices.

Netbooks, iPhones, BlackBerries and USB modems should all have exactly the same dat apricing scale available to them
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Amarantamin

Apr 21, 2010, 6:29 PM
Choose a data package too low? Hello massive overages!

I see many people paying for much higher data packs than they would need, just for security. It won't be long before we're right back to offering 'true' unlimited plans again, after gouging for overages for several years.
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wolfpack519

Apr 21, 2010, 2:49 PM
Looks like I'm keeping my iPhone 3G for life then.
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GeeksAreBest

Apr 21, 2010, 4:33 PM
The teired data will probably have a capped amount and not be all that bad otherwise, no one would have a PDA.
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shiftmobile

Apr 21, 2010, 5:16 PM
No capped amount. They will likely give you a way to track your data amount like Verizon does for aircards. You'll be able to see your usage and change your plan accordingly. Verizon will allow a backdate on plan changes to cover the entire cycle if you catch it before you bill cycle date.
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Menno

Apr 21, 2010, 5:09 PM
as long as the device you want doesn't require a certain plan (like all 4g devices will)
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Amarantamin

Apr 21, 2010, 6:49 PM
They could just make any newer smartphone require a 'current' data package. That's how Sprint got a lot of customers from no-expiration retention-only free data packages that they weren't supposed to have.

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