For those that were saying that they didn't notice throttling, is it bc it actually doesn't got into affect until the end of May?
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I just spent some time looking, and I still don't see an alternative for me, who usually uses 1-2GB a month. T-Mobile for $25/month (+ tax?). Not enough of a savings.
This past month, in a hotel with flakey internet, I just moved the SIM to a MiFi, and took advantage of that for 5-6GB.
Now, if ATT or Verizon offered a $20 2GB plan, I would go with that.
ATT already does this same type of throttling on other Unlimited plans, and there are plenty of people who have not seen any slowdowns once you hit the 22GB threshold. It isn't an immediate drop to unusable speeds once the limit is reached, but depends on tower usage.
And since I've seen slower data speeds depending on time and place even without this, I suspect that people can probably figure out when it will happen anyway. Examples of congestion is when you get better upload speeds than download. I suppose that if postpaid plans are getting slow, people past this limit will really be hit hard.
These $29.95 unlimited iPad plans were never attached to any voice plans. That's probably the reason they flew under the radar for so long.
If you're on one of the new AT&T unlimited plans, you can add a tablet for $20 (I believe).. You could always do this, and cancel the $29.95 plan. I'm holding into mine for now. The tablet plans are $20 each, sublet to 'network managament' after 22GB... The same as our legacy unlimited $29.95 plans.
It could save you $10/mo. Instead of canceling it, you might make a few bucks off selling it.. Although I'd sure the market has tanked on these.
Yeah its the same as the att unlimited plus plan.
It would be great to add 8 lines to it, but i only need 1 tablet plan.
Is there any forum where you can add lines together with other people?
What do you me a by add lines together with others?
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I see people are trying to unload these grandfathered unlimited iPad plans left & right on eBay now. Last one went for $450 today.
I don't think their worth much anymore, as an add-on tablet plan is $20 now for every carrier. I know T-Mo won't allow SIM in a hotspot, not sure about Sprint.
I got my money out of my two plans over the years, I have no regret.
I don't think their worth much anymore, as an add-on tablet plan is $20 now for every carrier. I know T-Mo won't allow SIM in a hotspot, not sure about Sprint.
I got my money out of my two plans over the years, I have no regret.
For the att unlimited plus, you can have 10 lines and it would be the cheapest.
If you only have 2 lines it would be 145 /2 each and each additional line would be 20$ more.
So i kind of want to join somebody who has 10lines, probably just going to ask my friends to see if i can join their family plan
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Wow, you're right. The prices dropped like a rock. You can see that just last week, they were going for $1,600
Before a lot of people were using it as their only source of internet access and it was truly unlimited. Right now its pure speculation. I'm sure someone will end up suing ATT for this and there is a small chance of them going back to original terms. Then prices might go back up or stay where they are. I'm keeping mine for now as it paid for itself from leasing it.
Are you on the ipad plan?29.99? Is yours cloned?or legit original original sorry too many clones around....
Legit original, had it since I had the original iPad 3g.
And I have used 28GB On the mobley and no such messages but fwiw it's relatively new plan so it could be very soon we get them alerts on Mobley also.
No i have two originals. I got the inital message a month ago about the possible deprioritization but nothing since then.
Oh ok..I have a original ipad plan as well..going to test it past 22gb and see what happens.I did get the initial message also like you that they would implement this from May 20th I think.
Ebay is flooded with ipad plans and their value now is next to nothing glad I only paid 1k and got full use over last few years.those who paid 2k to 3k I can't imagine their buyers remorse
Ebay is flooded with ipad plans and their value now is next to nothing glad I only paid 1k and got full use over last few years.those who paid 2k to 3k I can't imagine their buyers remorse
yeah those days are over, but I still see tons of value in these plans. I really believe I can do hundreds of gb no problem like before. It's still a prepaid plan (hence no taxes, no postpaid account needed) and it's only 29.99/month. I'm keeping mine.
I'm keeping all 3 of mine as well, I only received a message about throttling on one plan, however one of my.other ones I'm at 57gb, for the month and no message at all. No throttling at all