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Step back to unlimited?

JeffdaBeat

Feb 2, 2011, 3:43 PM
I keep wondering if they are just going to fold and bring back the unlimited plan. I've been hearing rumors that they are secretively giving the unlimited plan to customers who are looking to switch to Verizon. I know this is tethering, but I'm wondering where this will go...
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GeeksAreBest

Feb 2, 2011, 3:45 PM
It's not just customer's looking to switch. It's also people who've had the plan before. Basically, if they can verify there's been an unlimited PDA/Smartphone plan, its capable of being re-added.

As far as the tethering goes, this is def. a step in the right direction. Granted yes, there's still a cap but at least it's doubled for the same price as before.
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ghepau

Feb 2, 2011, 4:00 PM
at&t, you may want to check your plan..
it's rediculous..45 dollars?
kidding me? 🤣
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Ken6271

Feb 2, 2011, 4:06 PM
its not rediculous...you pay for the service you get. 25.00 for datapro 2 gig and if you want tethering/hotspot feature it is 20 dollars more (45.00) and you get 4 gig instead of 2 gig. Verizon charges 30.00 for unlimited and they charge 20.00 for hotspot feature with only a 2 gig limit, so at least for 20.00 on ATT your getting 2 gigs more bro to bring it to 4 gigs. good deal i think. Verizon will not keep their data plans for smartphones unlimited for long..they will go tiered too.
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joeybuschette

Feb 2, 2011, 4:28 PM
Sprint is offering an umlitmed plan for wifi tethering for 29.99. I have the plan and I have never seen any overage charges and I play a lot of X Box Live and I'm getting a PS3 next so I'm really looking foward to it
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ghepau

Feb 2, 2011, 5:03 PM
that is right as long as your in the network its unlimited. that's the deal!! who can break that? hehehe
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GeeksAreBest

Feb 3, 2011, 8:52 AM
Well it'd be great if Sprint's network wasn't like 1/5th the size of AT&T or Verizons and Sprint didn't have that nice little T&C line that says if you use the majority of your data off network (meaning Sprint base, not their Verizon partner) or majority of your "unlimited minutes"...they deem you unprofitable and cancel you. They do it WAY faster than any company I've worked with before. After 1mo. they will boot your butt to the curb while most other carriers actually look for a trend/pattern in usage to make sure it's a normal thing and even then it takes a few months to complete everything.
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Azeron

Feb 2, 2011, 4:36 PM
Sure they will. Fortunately my plan is grandfathered. The main thing keeping me there with my FF/GV combo a far distant second.
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S-y-P-h-E-r

Feb 2, 2011, 5:27 PM
I work for AT&T, we did get an update about bringing back the unlimited feature, What it said was something to the lines, "We have NO plans to bring back the Unlimited data feature." Here to clear up a few questions

If you currently have the unlimited data plan and upgrade to a diff smart phone you can keep your unlimited data plan, Now if you currently have unlimited and changed it to the 2GB or 200Mb plans you will not be able to get unlimited back.

IDK what all the fuss is about tho, for the average user of ATT service, they never go above 2Gb, Out of the whole time I've been with ATT I've only seen one cst go over the 2Gb limit, and tats due to the cst doing torrent downloads.

for all of those complaining, what the hell did yo...
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callcenterrep69

Feb 7, 2011, 2:31 PM
You hit the nail on the head sir! I too work for AT&T. Now, whereas I have seem a few more customers whom actually use more than 2gb, it is definitely very MINIMAL. Those that do use more than 2gb, are already on "unlimited" smartphone data plans.
By the way, we can no longer simply re-add unlimited data plan for smartphones (not even by management). If they were either mistakenly or purposefully removed, we must now submit a case to escalations for re-adding.
So sorry Mr. Soggybottoms, no immediate resolution anymore 🙄
Either iPhone users don't KNOW how to use more than 2gb or choose not to.
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atandtrep

Feb 2, 2011, 6:41 PM
$20 for 2 gb is actually the standard overage rate for a data plan with out tethering. At this point $45 gets you 2 gb for tethering. So this is actually a pretty good deal to get 2 gb for free.
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pickles

Feb 2, 2011, 6:49 PM
wrong. on the 2gb plan w/o tethering, it's $10 per additional GB.
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atandtrep

Feb 2, 2011, 7:15 PM
right so $20 for 2gb
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pickles

Feb 2, 2011, 8:30 PM
uhm NO, not if you failed second grade. so i'm still right.
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CellStudent

Feb 2, 2011, 11:32 PM
pickles said:
uhm NO, not if you failed second grade. so i'm still right.

If Johnny can buy one book for $10, how many books can he buy with $20?

$20 for 2 GB sound like accurate math to me when one GB costs only $10.

What's your take on the arithmetic? Quantities generalize up even if they don't generalize down. If he had said it was $1 for 100 MB, he'd be wrong because the fundamental unit is $10.

But advertising that an additional 10 GB costs $100 would be totally accurate (as far as my understanding of AT&T data rates goes).
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callcenterrep69

Feb 7, 2011, 2:39 PM
WOOOWWW! If you believe $10/1gb is different from $20/2gb...YOU might be a redneck! 🤣
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S-y-P-h-E-r

Feb 2, 2011, 7:46 PM
why worry about it tho,,, hack the phone and get it free,
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CellStudent

Feb 2, 2011, 4:57 PM
JeffdaBeat said:
I keep wondering if they are just going to fold and bring back the unlimited plan. I've been hearing rumors that they are secretively giving the unlimited plan to customers who are looking to switch to Verizon. I know this is tethering, but I'm wondering where this will go...

It's kind of funny. I think a big part of the reason AT&T can't go back to unlimited 3G is because their unlimited 3G is too good, too powerful. It's too fast, so "3G" users actually CAN use it as a substitution for a home internet connection.

On EVDO, it's still classified as "3G" service, but because it only offers 1/3 of the performance HSPA does, consumers can't abuse it like they can HSPA, even if they wanted t...
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trenen

Feb 2, 2011, 5:09 PM
Umm ok... your "too good, too powerful, too fast" isn't affected by market or anything...

Just because YOU don't get good speeds on EVDO doesn't mean I don't or million of others don't. I always get better speeds than my friends who are on AT&T. It's a regional thing, not a guarantee.
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ghepau

Feb 2, 2011, 5:28 PM
weh??
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CellStudent

Feb 2, 2011, 8:11 PM
trenen said:
Umm ok... your "too good, too powerful, too fast" isn't affected by market or anything...

Just because YOU don't get good speeds on EVDO doesn't mean I don't or million of others don't. I always get better speeds than my friends who are on AT&T. It's a regional thing, not a guarantee.

Don't get personal. I don't (and wouldn't care to) be a power user. If I could get a 1x only Android phone and live off the $15 data pack, I'd be first in line for that deal.

But there are lots of iPhone users out there pushing their devices to the max, and getting 3 -4 Mbps unless they're in really congested network areas.

EVDO will never provide those speeds, even if you're the only handset on t...
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retrolike

Feb 2, 2011, 9:22 PM
agree, i am good friends with a verizon sales guy here in sc, he told me about the same thing you did about the comparison between att's 3g network & verizons evdo network...he says att's is waaaay better.
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Azeron

Feb 2, 2011, 10:10 PM
Sorry. EVDO Rev. A isn't as fast. Period. I'm a VZW customer ad satisfied with the speeds I get but even I know that.
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Menno

Feb 2, 2011, 6:11 PM
The thing is though that android users on Verizon (on average) cosume more data than their ATT counterparts.

Granted, there are more smartphone users on ATT, but this is worth noting. When ATT released their 200MB plan, they said over 60% of their users could switch to this plan. When verizon released their 150MB plan, we were told that only 20% of users would fall into this category (and they mainly had blackberry's)
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CellStudent

Feb 2, 2011, 8:19 PM
Menno said:
The thing is though that android users on Verizon (on average) cosume more data than their ATT counterparts.

Granted, there are more smartphone users on ATT, but this is worth noting. When ATT released their 200MB plan, they said over 60% of their users could switch to this plan. When verizon released their 150MB plan, we were told that only 20% of users would fall into this category (and they mainly had blackberry's)



True, but I'm talking more about consumption by the top 2% of data package abusers, not average values.

Even under the most ideal of circumstances, a data-hog can't squeeze nearly as much out of an EVDO pipe as they can a 7.2 HSPA+ connection, so it's a much lowe...
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