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"AT&T Eliminating "Unlimited" Internet For iPhones--Now You'll Pay For What You Eat AT&T's Latest Plan For Squeezing Money From iPhone UsersAT&T Wireless CEO: Here's Why We Won't Get Our Butts Kicked When The iPhone Goes To VerizonApple Agreed To Stick With AT&T For The iPhone Through 2012 In a change that will infuriate a tiny subset of iPhone/smartphone users and please the rest of them, AT&T is moving away from "all-you-can-eat" wireless Internet plans. Now, you'll be able to choose from a $15/mo plan for 200 megabytes (400 photos or 100 minutes of streaming video) or $25/mo for 2 gigabytes. This switch should eventually save 98% of AT&T's customers money: Both new plans will be cheaper than the current $30 all-you-can-eat plan, and AT&T says that all but 2% of its customers use less than 2 gbs of wireless data a month. The remaining 2%, meanwhile, are helping to wreck the performance of AT&T's wireless network for everyone else: AT&T says that 3% of its customers account for a whopping 40% of the traffic on its network. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/att-eliminating-unlimited-internet-for-iphones-2010-6 "

6/2/2010 10:27:31 AM

i don't see a problem here

6/2/2010 10:28:53 AM

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"AT&T says that all but 2% of its customers use less than 2 gbs of wireless data a month."

But they don't say 98% of customers use less than 200 MB/month... So technically if you use 500 MB per month you're still in that 98% range, and you have to buy the 25/mo plan because otherwise you're going to be paying overages.

6/2/2010 10:40:49 AM

I just thought this was to make 2% of their user base (that they don't want) jump ship to Verizon, while making their prices more competitive.

6/2/2010 10:42:20 AM

yeah it's not like they're going to be losing money on this or anything

6/2/2010 10:42:28 AM

All of the cell companies are likely going to a tiered data structure.

6/2/2010 10:42:50 AM

And the overages are what they're after in the guise of saving the consumer money.

HORSE HOCKEY

6/2/2010 10:43:25 AM

i love how they're spinning this as a customer advantage. let's cap everyone, for the good of everyone! hey, and we'll let you save $5 for your trouble!

6/2/2010 10:44:35 AM

^^^^ yeah i would assume it's inevitable...though i'm not surprised at&t is leading the charge.

Sprint has cheap plans with unlimited data and tethering though, I wonder how they get away with it at the moment? not as many smartphone users (read: data consumers) on their network?

6/2/2010 10:45:32 AM

as a man of the internet, this angers me.

fortunately, i do not use at&t.

6/2/2010 10:46:43 AM

i be tethering on dat verizon network right now

6/2/2010 10:46:55 AM

^^^ yeah, verizon has already announced that their 4G won't be "unlimited" but apparently LTE data should be a lot cheaper than the current Evdo data.

6/2/2010 10:51:12 AM

for a minute i thought i was in Tech Talk

and i never go to Tech Talk

6/2/2010 10:55:26 AM

6/2/2010 10:56:49 AM

I don't see Sprint following suit.

There are not any profits in voice service anymore which is why they want to milk all of the can off the data.

Also I think they just want people to use the wifi connections on their phone instead of streaming hours of Pandora and video over the wireless network.

6/2/2010 11:00:37 AM

looking at my trending... i could do the 2 gig... whoopie saves me $5 a month

6/2/2010 11:00:38 AM

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"looking at my trending... i could do the 2 gig... whoopie saves me $5 a month"

exactly. whoopie.

6/2/2010 11:03:02 AM

i could go the 2gb route too, but in november of 09 i used 4gb of internet. that bill would had been $1200 with thier current proprosal of $.50 per mb over the 2 gb...

6/2/2010 11:05:05 AM

But what percentage of that could you have been using wifi instead?

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"AT&T just dropped a bit of a bombshell, doing away with its "unlimited" data plans in favor some new tiered options. Before we go into details, note that current voice and data plans won't change unless you want them to, and the new plans won't be available until June 7. Now, for the meat: The DataPlus plan: You get 200 megabytes of data for $15 a month. If you go over that, you get another 200MB for another $15. AT&T says that 65 percent of its smartphone customers use less than 200MB a month. (Surely that's nobody here.) The DataPro plan: You get 2 gigabytes of data for $25 a month. If you go over that, you get another 1GB for $10. AT&T says 98 percent of its customers use less than 2GB a data a month. (For what its worth, even I fall under that category.) Tethering: Finally -- legitimate tethering on AT&T (for better or for worse, 'cause you're gonna have to share this with iPhone and iPad users). Another $20 a month gets you access, and you'll be pulling from the same 2GB pool as the DataPro plan. So if you start going over, you might not be saving all that much, if any."

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM. Reason : ]

6/2/2010 11:06:37 AM

On my last bill I only downloaded 100MB but could easily see myself greatly exceeding that as I plan on using Pandora more in the future.

6/2/2010 11:07:01 AM

That really pisses me off about Tethering. There were supposed that to have that access months ago.

6/2/2010 11:11:51 AM

I've been around 175-200mb the last 8 months

so basically, this saves me $15... HOORAY

6/2/2010 11:14:00 AM

free tethering with pdanet on android for all sites except https. <$20 one-time fee to get registered version of pdanet so you can tether to any site.

6/2/2010 11:14:06 AM

root+wireless tethering > pdanet.

6/2/2010 11:14:55 AM

pdanet will do that too

6/2/2010 11:15:52 AM

why is this thread here?

are you not allowed to use smilies and cuss words in Tech Talk?




[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 11:17 AM. Reason : sdfsd]

6/2/2010 11:17:25 AM

well right now the only android phone that you can use 3G and have root access on AT&T's network without developer tools is the nexus one... which you can't buy with a contract so you'd have to pay like 550 for it

so far this billing period (13/31 days in) i've used 408.10 MB of my unlimited

6/2/2010 11:17:51 AM

People LOVE to complain...thats all I'm seeing out of this announcement.

6/2/2010 11:17:53 AM

shush old lady. You're still in the stone age with that centro.

6/2/2010 11:18:11 AM

yep...and i have unlimited everything for $30/month

6/2/2010 11:18:49 AM

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" i have unlimited everything for $30/month"

o rly?

6/2/2010 11:21:39 AM

p33n?

6/2/2010 11:22:31 AM

ok...well...

everything except the dong

6/2/2010 11:25:01 AM

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"But what percentage of that could you have been using wifi instead? "

prolly not much, i was tethered to my mac at the deerlease for most of that time, i think...

but i use iheartradio and pandora all the time, so i can see the 2gb cap being a potential issue...

6/2/2010 11:27:32 AM

it isnt in tech talk cause i didnt want it in tech talk.

its sorta a bitching thrad, so if anywhere it should be in TSB but i didnt want it there either...

6/2/2010 11:29:10 AM

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"that bill would had been $1200 with thier current proprosal of $.50 per mb over the 2 gb..."

do what?

6/2/2010 11:32:54 AM

a little over estimating...

2000mb X .5 = 1000 + 140 (regular access bill) = 1140.00 rounded up to 1200

i didnt see the above post. but what happenes between 3 and 4, is another 1 gb just another $10?

the post i read talked about overages at $.49 per mb, but wasnt a reliable source...

so for $45 you get tethering and 2 gb... that sucks...

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 11:42 AM. Reason : 1]

6/2/2010 11:36:29 AM

Will this be affecting my blackberry?

6/2/2010 11:47:02 AM

^^ looks like it's just a $10 flat rate for each additional GB over the 2GB limit.

^ Seems to be smartphones in general.

6/2/2010 11:58:48 AM

you don't have to change your plan.

6/2/2010 12:11:09 PM

you do if you upgrade phones, or resign a contract.

6/2/2010 12:16:41 PM

no you don't.

6/2/2010 12:40:37 PM

i read some of this thread but didn't see this addressed : how will this effect Skype users?

6/2/2010 12:42:08 PM

This would save me money currently as well, as I dont think Ive ever been over 150MB...although Im still on a first gen plan, so it would still only save me $5...

Regardless, Im still getting an EVO in two days.

6/2/2010 1:14:30 PM

let me know how that EVO works for ya, im looking at one also...

6/2/2010 1:19:55 PM

Im surprised it took them this long to do this.

6/2/2010 1:21:56 PM

i share your surprise - tethering seemed the LAST thing AT&T would ever do, the tiered structure was a forgone conclusion, but i predict it won't last more than say 5-10 years then everything will be totally unlimited everything (assuming of course that other companies continue on that trend).

6/2/2010 2:01:03 PM

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"(If you're currently on an unlimited AT&T smartphone data plan, you don't have to switch to the new, capped options, which are required for new subscribers only. But AT&T says you can opt to make the switch without extending your contract.) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100602/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2354"

6/2/2010 2:23:46 PM

do not like, yoiu may not use more than 2gb of data now, but i remember when i thought a 650mb cd rom was big and that wanst long ago.

6/4/2010 7:23:16 AM

I am glad to know I will no longer be subsidizing the nerds that use 20x more bandwidth than me and I will be paying $5 less than what I currently pay. For right now I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that as wireless data usage increases they will adjust their plans accordingly.

6/4/2010 7:46:18 AM