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DataPro. Provides 2 gigabytes (GB) of data – for example, enough to send/receive 10,000 emails (no attachments), plus send/receive 1,500 emails with attachments, plus view 4,000 Web pages, plus post 500 photos to social media sites, plus watch 200 minutes of streaming video – for $25 per month.** Should a customer exceed 2 GB during a billing cycle, they will receive an additional 1 GB of data for $10 for use in the cycle. Currently, 98 percent of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 2 GB of data a month on average.
Each plan includes unlimited access at no additional charge to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots in the U.S. Customers can also use unlimited Wi-Fi at home, in the office or elsewhere if available.
It begs the question, if 98% of your customers use less than 2GB then why cap the plan at 2GB with $10 extra per GB if 98% of the people will never exceed that rate?
Will they earn that much extra just charging 2% of their users an extra $10?
Sounds to me like they're taking a preemptive strike at making their network bandwidth look better by trying to chase people streaming audio and video off to Wi-Fi.
why cap the plan at 2GB with $10 extra per GB if 98% of the people will never exceed that rate?
98 percent of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 2 GB of data a month on average
that's not what they said!
If you're in the US and want an iPhone or other AT&T-provided smartphone with an unlimited data plan, get off your duff and sign up before Monday, June 7 — that's when AT&T will switch to capped data-service plans.
June 7 is also the day that Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the next-generation iPhone.
In addition to killing off unlimited data plans, Big Phone will also — finally — provide support for internet tethering, a feature that broad swaths of the rest of the world and a wide range of other phones, smart or otherwise, have enjoyed for some time, and which iPhone owners have been waiting for since the iPhone 3GS was released a year ago.
Tethering won't be free, however — how does an additional $20 per month sound? And it'll be available only if you subscribe to the higher level of the two capped-data plans to which AT&T is transitioning.
If you're in the US and want an iPhone or other AT&T-provided smartphone with an unlimited data plan, get off your duff and sign up before Monday, June 7 — that's when AT&T will switch to capped data-service plans.
June 7 is also the day that Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the next-generation iPhone.
Is this the way to clean out their iPhone 3GS inventory before everyone craves the iPhone 4G and it becomes less valuable?
Changing phones will trigger a contract change as I read it, so there is no way to get the iPhone 4G AND keep the unlimited plan.
- front-facing video chat camera
- Netflix streaming app
This topic is misleading. There will be many people that will still have their unlimited plan.
Not misleading at all as new customers, signing up in droves for iPads and soon iPhone 4, aren't able to get the all-you-can-eat buffet.
Well, the all-you-can-5GB buffet anyway, there's no such thing as unlimited for any network.
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