AT&T is raising EVERYONE’s data rate. I just found this out.
For instance, if you are paying $115 a month for 10GBs of Data and unlimited texts and phone calls in all 50 states.
If you upgrade your iPhone 6, and you want the 2 year plan (where you pay $199 or $299) upfront for the iPhone 6 plus the $40 activation fee. This part is nothing new. It’s been that way for a long time. However......,
your monthly rate of $115 will go up to $140 a month or an extra $25 a month or $350 a year.
I asked AT&T why and they said because they no longer receive a subsidy from the feds for their land lines. Therefore, in order to make it up they are throwing it on everyone’s wireless bill.
Once word gets out on the street I bet they will lose many current customers like myself. I was a customer since 2002. Think I will be looking at T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.
Ridiculous and I will be leaving them soon.
$115 a month? Hell, for that much here in the UK you’d get unlimited calls, texts and data and a partial refund. Damn, cell phone plans are even more ridiculous in the States than when I left in ‘11.
I pay £45 a month for my Galaxy Note 3, which is about £20/month installment on the phone, and £25/month for 1 gig of data, 500 outgoing minutes (incoming calls aren’t charged for here) and 500 outgoing texts (again, incoming texts aren’t charged for)
You can get much better monthly plans on most of the MVNO prepaid carriers.
$140 per month? Absolutely ridiculous. I pay $58 per month for unlimited everything plus all the frills on T-Mobile. If they have good coverage in your area, I advise you to look at them or one of their MVNOs first.
Sprint has some plans as well if you live in an area where their network isn’t congested. I was on Virgin Mobile when I first switched over to a smartphone.
Verizon and AT&T are two sides of the same coin: like Republican and Democrat.
Ditch the Bitch! AT&T SUCKS! Verizon at least has better rates and massively larger coverage than AT&T.
Also, if you work for a large company try going onto Verizon’s website and see if they give a discount. I know many companies that are given a 20% to 25% monthly discount with Verizon. All it takes is a company email address. You sign up at VerizonWireless.com, they send you an email to your work address, you click the link in the email and you’re all set; discount applied.
You are one of the few, who knows what their monthly rate is to use their I phones. My wife and I for years have asked the owners this specific question, what is you basic monthly bill?
People don’t answer. They either don’t know, don’t care or are in denial.
Re AT&T’s excuse for the increase. For years/decades, they did nothing to upgrade their land lines besides raising their monthly bills. My wife and I had two AT&T lines with separate numbers. Most of the time only one number might work. If my wife called my line on her phone line in our house, we often didn’t have a good connection. AT&T never replaced the decades old Pac Tel lines to our house, their box and lines to our two phones. The lines were so old they would break if you touched them. Our monthly bills had gone up to close to $100 per month for the two lines. Then, we discontinued the lines and went to another provider.