Data overage cost

High overage charges are easily avoidable. You can go online up until the last day of your cycle and increase your data plan, backdating it to the beginning of the cycle.

If that isn't acceptable, turn your data off when you receive the first of at least 3 warnings that you are about to exceed your data plan. OTOH, I've seen people complain about receiving too many warnings .

@Legallyrobbed

If you can't handle data management, use a flip phone.

So switch to the new plan, it has no overage charges, cheaper line fees for small data plans, cheaper data plans for large data plans.

The plan was introduced on August 21 and heavily advertised.

 https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html

Thanks for the ad & suggestion, but will pass on AT&T's throttled data plan/s

@COMPANYGREED

Then stop complaining.  You want your cake and eat it to.  ATT finally offers everything people want and you refuse to take it.  The plan throttles when you reach your cap.  You can easily raise the cap at anytime online by moving up to the next data tier.  Unused data rolls over for one month.  

If you insist on staying with an older plan, shut off data yourself manually on the ATT app.  But posting the same complaint and doing NOTHING to help yourself is silly and pointless.  

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@COMPANYGREED wrote:
Not possible. All "warnings" came less than 60 seconds apart

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That is a problem since data isn't reported live.

BUT it is recorded live on your phone, you can check it anytime you want.

Also you can check AT&Ts current reported data by dialing *DATA# at any time which shows all phones data (at least if you're the account holder it does).  This isn't perfect due to data reporting delays, BUT if you see you've used 60% of the plan's data and you're only one week in, everyone needs to do some curbing of data.

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@Legallyrobbed wrote:
There whole Buisness is robbing people, plain and simple. This is really all anyone needs to know when entering a deal with any wireless carrier.

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Actually, it's helpful if they learn how to manage their data use, all if they read their plan and contract...

FYI, no one requires you to get a cell phone.