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Just got an email saying grandfathered unlimited data plans are getting bumped an extra $5/month starting this February. quote:Upcoming changes to your unlimited data plan Still sticking with it, fuckers. And now I'm going to use it even more 
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Dec 15, 2015 21:01
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Could someone give me a hand that knows AT&T's plans on how to get my poo poo cheaper? I have 2 phone numbers, mine and my wife's. I am on the unlimited data plan that is grandfathered in. And a next plan with an iPhone 6. She has an iPhone 5S. She'd like to upgrade to a 6S in February. Our bill is $191 per month. I'd hate to give up the unlimited data but I'm generally using about 2-3 gigs of data per month as most places I go have wifi now. So if it needs to go it can. I'm getting charged $30/month for unlimited texting? This seems a bit high with iMessage I feel like we send very few texts each month. I have the mobile insurance on my line because it's saved my rear end a few times over the years. We don't talk on the phone hardly at all and have thousands of unused rollover minutes. I've attached a pic of my bill breakdown if anyone could give me some advice before I go talk to AT&T it'd be very much appreciated. Thank you. 
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Dec 15, 2015 22:36
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Just got an email saying grandfathered unlimited data plans are getting bumped an extra $5/month starting this February. Got the same email...I think this might cause me to jump ship to another carrier. I just upgraded to a 6s with them so if I don't get charged the ETF than it seems like a pretty good deal possibly to jump out now. An extra $60 a year for unlimited data that I don't even use just doesn't seem right. However, in doing this, I think I'll lose the ability to upgrade my phone every two years for $200 or whatever the 6s cost me this time (no more subsidized phones).
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Dec 16, 2015 03:13
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nwin posted:Got the same email...I think this might cause me to jump ship to another carrier. I just upgraded to a 6s with them so if I don't get charged the ETF than it seems like a pretty good deal possibly to jump out now. An extra $60 a year for unlimited data that I don't even use just doesn't seem right. However, in doing this, I think I'll lose the ability to upgrade my phone every two years for $200 or whatever the 6s cost me this time (no more subsidized phones). I went to AT&T and looked at data plans. Based on my average usage, they recommended the $180 20GB/mo plan. gently caress. That. poo poo. Going for $82/mo to $87/mo for unlimited data is still worth it when my last 3-month average is 21Gb/mo.
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Dec 16, 2015 03:48
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Disappointing Pie posted:Could someone give me a hand that knows AT&T's plans on how to get my poo poo cheaper? Interesting one. Honestly, in the past this plan would save a lot with limited texting, but ATT won't let you add a per text plan or anything like that. The into reason it's really high is because you have a contract based plan, and you are basically buying a phone outright on Next for no reason which raises the rate. So right now, going to the share plans will be way cheaper because you get a discount there for being on next. A base plan is $100 for 15GB of data, $15 * 2 lines, so $130 plus your next phone at $31 monthly. Personally, if you don't use a ton of data I would think it over and Switch to this plan, it'll be the simplest solution to your question.
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Dec 16, 2015 03:54
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Duckman2008 posted:Interesting one. Honestly, in the past this plan would save a lot with limited texting, but ATT won't let you add a per text plan or anything like that. Thanks for the input, the main reason I posted is because I thought I was missing something and wasn't getting my plan much cheaper, what you came up with is about the closest I could get also. I really need to avoid the next but buying a phone outright is a big chunk of money to throw down at once. 
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Dec 16, 2015 04:06
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Just got an email saying grandfathered unlimited data plans are getting bumped an extra $5/month starting this February. I just received the same thing. I also blow threw about 20+ gigs a month. I now plan to never hook into WiFi again just to see how much data I can burn threw. Here's the thing I just signed a contract with them a few months ago. If they can just raise their rates what's the point of having a contract?
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Dec 22, 2015 03:20
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frgildan posted:I just received the same thing. I also blow threw about 20+ gigs a month. I now plan to never hook into WiFi again just to see how much data I can burn threw. I got that email. I also signed a new contract over the summer. My data usage varies wildly. According to my phone, the last 4 months had 2 under 4 GB, one around 18 and one around 22. I think I was keeping it under 5 for the most part when they were throttling over 5 but that doesn't apply for the past 4, or I just didn't care, whatever. Is rollover data a thing? I didn't see it in the OP. I also didn't see the amounts for data overages. I've still got a single device unlimited plan and I still don't think it's worth it to switch. I honestly don't know how much data I might want to use in the future.
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Dec 22, 2015 03:48
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Rollover data is only valid for one month, so your previous month's underrage will cover the current month's overage.
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Dec 22, 2015 04:32
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Mr. Powers posted:Rollover data is only valid for one month, so your previous month's underrage will cover the current month's overage. Yuck. I don't think that would benefit me with my wildly variable usage. It's either pay for overages or start paying attention to my data usage. I could probably use wifi more but would it be worth the inconvenience?
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Dec 22, 2015 05:18
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GIven how lovely our service was with unlimited data I'm actually surprised you're able to use 20+ GB on it
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Dec 24, 2015 20:46
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So I've been on my family's T-Mobile plan for the past forever, paying only $20/mo for two phones. However, situation has arisen that I may need to get my own plan. I'm a Kroger employee, and with that comes a corporate discount with literally every 'big four' wireless carrier EXCEPT T-Mobile. gently caress knows why! But getting a two-line plan would actually be cheaper for me than T-Mobile because of this. I guess I want to know: according to this page, it would be $30+$25+25=$80/mo ($60ish/mo after discount), right, if I'm bringing my own devices? And the 3GB is shared between both? I'm hard-pressed a lot of months to even go over 1GB/mo a lot of the time. What happens when we do go over? Is it like T-Mobile, where you're just throttled down to 2G until next month, or do they then proceed to charge the gently caress out of you for going over? edit: WHOOPS looks like I didn't read the OP, though it did say it was pretty outdated. Is it still only $10 per extra GB? That's not really all that bad, especially considering that between my wife and I I don't think we'd hardly ever go over 1.5GB each. Do I have the pricing right, though? Daily Forecast fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 04:44
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Disappointing Pie posted:Thanks for the input, the main reason I posted is because I thought I was missing something and wasn't getting my plan much cheaper, what you came up with is about the closest I could get also. I really need to avoid the next but buying a phone outright is a big chunk of money to throw down at once. I thought the unlimited plans were standard two year contracts so they include a phone subsidy. Paying for that and Next (an un subsidized phone) wouldn't make much sense.
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Dec 26, 2015 14:17
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Daily Forecast posted:So I've been on my family's T-Mobile plan for the past forever, paying only $20/mo for two phones. However, situation has arisen that I may need to get my own plan. T-Mobile doesn't offer corporate discounts like that anymore.
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Dec 26, 2015 16:15
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Daily Forecast posted:So I've been on my family's T-Mobile plan for the past forever, paying only $20/mo for two phones. However, situation has arisen that I may need to get my own plan. Your discount doesn't go off the base plan for the $30 or under plan. So you would want to do at least the 5GB for $50, which you would get your discount on. $15 per 1GB overage.
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Dec 26, 2015 18:21
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So if I have a micro SIM card and want to exchange it for a nano, I just walk into a corporate store? Can I be in and out in fifteen minutes?
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Dec 26, 2015 18:43
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Duckman2008 posted:Your discount doesn't go off the base plan for the $30 or under plan. Man, that's kinda poo poo. Why?
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Dec 26, 2015 19:21
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:So if I have a micro SIM card and want to exchange it for a nano, I just walk into a corporate store? Can I be in and out in fifteen minutes? Yes, depends how busy the store is
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Dec 26, 2015 19:41
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Daily Forecast posted:Man, that's kinda poo poo. Why? ATT is a for profit company.
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Dec 27, 2015 04:45
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2 year contracts (and their subsidies) are going away on January 8th. http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/30/att-ditch-contracts-jan-8/
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Jan 1, 2016 06:31
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kefkafloyd posted:2 year contracts (and their subsidies) are going away on January 8th. Slightly surprised it wasn't sooner. Looks like they just wanted to wait until after the holidays.
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Jan 1, 2016 06:46
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kefkafloyd posted:2 year contracts (and their subsidies) are going away on January 8th. Does this mean I switch carriers when I get an iPhone 7?
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Jan 2, 2016 08:48
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Josh Lyman posted:I have a launch day iPhone 6 w/unlimited data for $30, 200 txts for $5, and 450 min talk for $40. Next is a way better deal than 2 year contract with AT&T for quite awhile now. Unless you have poo poo credit, then maybe you can do Next with a large deposit. Maybe, I dunno how it works out but Next has been a better deal than a 2 year contract for at least a year now unless you are poo poo at managing money.
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Jan 2, 2016 10:30
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Three Olives posted:Next is a way better deal than 2 year contract with AT&T for quite awhile now. Unless you have poo poo credit, then maybe you can do Next with a large deposit. Maybe, I dunno how it works out but Next has been a better deal than a 2 year contract for at least a year now unless you are poo poo at managing money. Josh Lyman posted:I have a 450 minute voice, unlimited data, and 200 text plan that runs me $66/mo after discounts, taxes and fees. My total cost after 2 years for iPhone + service would be 199 + 36 activation + 24*66 = $1819. Assuming I can sell then 2-year-old phone for $250, that's $1569 every 2 years. Based on this (http://www.myattmst.com/wireless_plans/mobile-share.html) it looks like a 5GB would be $75 + $21.67 per month on Next for the 16GB model. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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Jan 2, 2016 11:27
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Three Olives posted:Next is a way better deal than 2 year contract with AT&T for quite awhile now. Unless you have poo poo credit, then maybe you can do Next with a large deposit. Maybe, I dunno how it works out but Next has been a better deal than a 2 year contract for at least a year now unless you are poo poo at managing money. Not if he/she wants to keep unlimited data. Otherwise yes.
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Jan 2, 2016 13:47
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Josh Lyman posted:I have a launch day iPhone 6 w/unlimited data for $30, 200 txts for $5, and 450 min talk for $40.
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Jan 2, 2016 18:30
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If all you care about is unlimited data (hint: you should) then just skip upgrading via carrier and use Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program. It's basically the same deal as Next 12 and it includes AppleCare+. Plus you keep unlimited data.
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Jan 2, 2016 19:38
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If all you care about is unlimited data (hint: you should) then just skip upgrading via carrier and use Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program. It's basically the same deal as Next 12 and it includes AppleCare+. Plus you keep unlimited data. Using that upgrade program lets me keep unlimited data? Radical, I'm signing up for that poo poo when I upgrade.
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Jan 2, 2016 22:02
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ATT must really hate me business.
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Jan 2, 2016 22:26
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gohmak posted:ATT must really hate me business. ATT honestly does seem to not like their current customers.
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Jan 3, 2016 02:18
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Duckman2008 posted:ATT honestly does seem to not like their current customers. But they told me they appreciated my business when I left them... they wouldn't lie would they?
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Jan 3, 2016 02:40
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mAlfunkti0n posted:But they told me they appreciated my business when I left them... they wouldn't lie would they? Lol they absolutely would. Especially if you didn't buy anything.
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Jan 3, 2016 05:54
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gohmak posted:ATT must really hate me business.
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Jan 3, 2016 07:00
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If all you care about is unlimited data (hint: you should) then just skip upgrading via carrier and use Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program. It's basically the same deal as Next 12 and it includes AppleCare+. Plus you keep unlimited data. Wouldn't Next 12 also keep the unlimited data? You just would be buying an unsubsidized phone on a subsidized phone plan, which is wasting like $225 a year.
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Jan 3, 2016 19:46
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I just bought a AT&T GoPhone Moto E as a workout phone since there is no word on bringing back the Urbane LTE which would have been perfect for me. There are still no restrictions on sticking a postpaid sim in a GoPhone, right? It was $20 cheaper for the locked version and I really don't give a poo poo about being locked carrier with a phone that I bought specifically for being destroyed falling off my bike or drunkenly getting in the pool with later this summer.
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Jan 3, 2016 22:01
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adorai posted:retention matters less than new business. "Reduce Churn" Those words still ring clearly in my head from when I was at AT&T. Three Olives posted:I just bought a AT&T GoPhone Moto E as a workout phone since there is no word on bringing back the Urbane LTE which would have been perfect for me. There are still no restrictions on sticking a postpaid sim in a GoPhone, right? It was $20 cheaper for the locked version and I really don't give a poo poo about being locked carrier with a phone that I bought specifically for being destroyed falling off my bike or drunkenly getting in the pool with later this summer. Some would like you to think that you cant. But AT&T has it in their internal documentation that this is definitely permitted.
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Jan 4, 2016 15:18
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We added my sister-in-law to our family plan, and she previously had a Net10 phone. We were trying to port the number but the guy at the AT&T store said it was a pain-in-the-rear end but he would do it if we wanted to wait an hour and possibly fail. Then my sis-in-law mentioned that the Net10 plan wasn't active and he said it wasn't possible at all. The second part seems totally valid to me, but any experience on the first part? (This is just academic since we ended up just getting a new number, because she didn't care about the bill credit and we didn't really care to spend any more time on it.)
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Jan 4, 2016 17:09
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smackfu posted:We added my sister-in-law to our family plan, and she previously had a Net10 phone. We were trying to port the number but the guy at the AT&T store said it was a pain-in-the-rear end but he would do it if we wanted to wait an hour and possibly fail. Then my sis-in-law mentioned that the Net10 plan wasn't active and he said it wasn't possible at all. The person is correct that if a line is not active, it cannot be ported. The answer to the first half is two parts. It can be annoying and a bit of work to move a number from Net 10, sometimes they deny it for no reason and then you have to call in, etc. the other half is Net 10 is usually not registered as a new line for ATT reps because Net 10 piggybacks off of ATT, so reps will try and get you to get a new number because they get paid more to do that. If it helps, it sounds like it wouldn't have been able to be moved over anyway.
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Jan 4, 2016 19:09
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Alright, need to get some info with AT&T and decide if I'm going to stay or go. I just upgraded to a 6S back in September/October (whenever it came out), and was able to get the subsidized 64gb phone for $300, while keeping my unlimited data. I currently have the National 450 with rollover, unlimited text, unlimited data...with a military discount, it gets me to about $88/month ($40 for the 450, 30 for unlimited, 20 for texting). Over the last year, here's been my max and averages: Text: Max 350, average 150 Data: Max 8 gb, average 5.2gb Talk: Max 1400, average 415 (That 1400 was an anomaly, the highest besides that was 885, then 570, and every other month has been under 200...thank god for rollover-I normally really don't use the phone that much at all for calls) Now, in February, my unlimited goes up $5, so I'll be around $93 for all that. My questions are: 1) Since the subsidized phone is going away, I can ETF now and not owe AT&T a thing and go to a carrier of my choice and I suppose just use my iPhone, though I'd probably have to unlock it, correct? 2) What are my options for plans? Can I keep the unlimited? Do I honestly even need that unlimited? What would you recommend for a plan? The unlimited texting might even be overkill...
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Unless you cut back on your data, you'll need to go for the 15GB plan, which will be $115/m before taxes and fees for a phone on AT&T Next/BYOD. Buy an unsubsidized phone and keep your unlimited plan. If your discount is 20%, it should put the cost around 92 before taxes and fees. https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html kefkafloyd fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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