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mitch4248 wrote:

:I would like to know if att next gives you unlimited talk text and data?


Well,  actually, AT&T doesn't "give" yo uanything.  You pay for your service, and depending upon which service you have, you may get unlimited talk, or text, but as for data, the only way to have "unlimited data" with an AT&T account now is to have had it for many years, as AT&T stopped offering it to new customers about 4 years ago, and the only people who have it now, are customers who had it before it was stopped, and have not chaged their plans to remove it.

 

The Mobile Share plans AT&T currently offers to new customers do include unlimited talk & text, but the data usage is the primary portion of the bill.  In my case, I have 2 smartphones on my account and we pay $15 per phone for the unlimited talk & text, but we pay $100 more to share 10GB of data between the two phones.  Now, we could drop down to the next lower tier and only pay $80 for 6GB of data, but then the per phone cost goes up and we would then pay $25/phone so our bill would be $130 for 2 smartphones with 6GB of data as compared to our current bill of $130 for 2 smartphones with 10GB of data.  That makes it easy to see why we are on teh 10GB data plan, doesn't it.  :)

 

Now, if you happen to get one of the older Family Plans, then the talk & text isn't unlimited, and neither is the data.  Before we moved to the Mobile Share plan, our 2 smartphones on a Family plan were costing us $160/month for 550 voice minutes ($60+$10), Unlimited Text ($30), Unlimited Data ($30+$30).  Once again, you can see how the Mobile Share is $30/month less and the only difference is in the amount of data we get.  I should note the caveat that with the grandfathers unlimited data plans we gave up, if either phone used more than 5GB data in a month, it was throttled back to very slow data speeds, so in essence, the 10GB mobile share plan is no worse than the old plan, and it's $30/month cheaper.


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