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Unlimited data
Why is the highest amount of Gigabytes for unlimited data stuck at 22? I live with four people that are put on this plan. By looking at AT&T's records, I see that it's an extra $40 for each person and $100 for the plan monthly. That equates to $260 coming from our pockets monthly. The closest charge that isn't involved with unlimited data is the 60 Gb plan for $270 ($4.50 per Gigabyte). By more calculations, we are paying for around 58 Gb of data, but we're charging for unlimited data, and having the 22 Gig cap is taking 62% of the money we give and turning it into sprint speed internet (A.K.A. The Devils Layer for Internet). I'm not saying that the amount of money should make the limit to 58, but the amount of Gigs should at least be higher when more people are in one plan, because we shouldn't pay $161 for what Sprint's got.
jt212s
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7 years ago
Hi @PeanutButter98,
The unlimited plan is not limited to 22GB. At 22GB, AT&T reserves the right to de-prioritize you in heavily congested areas. What this means is that if you are in a congested area and there is a lot of data usage happening from a lot of people, your data will take a lower priority than theirs and your data may not be as fast.
Even T-Mobile and Sprint's current unlimited offerings come with similar caveats. T-Mobile is 28GB currently and Sprint's is 23GB.
Also keep in mind, with the T-Mobile and Sprint unlimited plans, you have to pay more to get higher quality videos, etc. The only benefit is that both allow tethering, whereas AT&T does not. But even then, the tethering is restricted for both carriers. With T-Mobile, you can pay $25 extra per month to be able to have higher tethering speed and daily HD video passes that you still have to enable manually.
Both also have low domestic roaming allowances and since both have a much smaller native network than AT&T (and VZW), you're more likely to have to roam onto AT&T or VZW (or another like US Cellular) and quickly use up your domestic data roaming allotment and be stuck without data until you're back on native coverage.
The only major carrier who doesn't de-prioritize their unlimited plans is VZW, but they're on a warpath to get people off of them and looking for any excuse to get people off of them.
edited to correct typo and fix incorrect data amount for T-Mobile
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Anonymous
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formerlyknownas
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7 years ago
Your math is wrong.
5 lines on the unlimited plan is $220 before tax and fees. Each line has unlimited data, reprioritised (not throttled) at 22 gigs. Many customers report no slow down in data well past 22 gigs. When reprioritised, your data cannot slow down to less than 3G speed. If your data is slow, everyone else would be effected also.
60 GBs data plan is $270, plus line fees $20 each for 5 lines $100
Total $370 before tax and fees.
You must have ATT TV service to qualify for the unlimited data plan.
Neither cost includes phones.
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Gary L
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7 years ago
@PeanutButter98 The 4th SMARTPHONE line is free.
FYI, many people have reported numbers of 100 GB per line and not noticed slowdowns.
While they have been reprioritized at 22GB, it didn't slow them down since it wasn't "overloaded" (or if it slowed them down for a few seconds here and there, they didn't notice).
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