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Title: AT&T to hike grandfathered unlimited data plans by $5 Post by: HCK on December 01, 2015, 03:00:15 am AT&T to hike grandfathered unlimited data plans by $5
<article> <section class="page"> <p>AT&T bummed out a lot of long-time iPhone users Monday by announcing a $5 per month rate hike (https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html?source=EC1N0000000wvc00D&wtExtndSource=unltdata#!/wireless/KM1064176) on grandfathered unlimited data plans. AT&T hasn’t offered new customers unlimited data since 2012, but users who snapped them up in the iPhone 3G era and clung to them until now (including yours truly) will see the first price hike in seven years, from $30 a month to $35.</p><p>AT&T will first notify affected customers, and then start charging them the extra $5 in February 2016. While AT&T previously came under fire (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2937194/fcc-plans-to-fine-atandt-100-million-over-unlimited-data-plans.html) for throttling these so-called unlimited plans to a lower speed after customers hit 5GB, the company recently changed its policy (http://www.macworld.com/article/2984493/carriers/att-unlimited-data-plans-now-allow-22gb-per-month-without-throttling.html). Now it only throttles users “if you exceed 22GB of data in a billing cycle and are in a congested area.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3010312/apple-phone/atandt-to-hike-grandfathered-unlimited-data-plans-by-5.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: AT&T to hike grandfathered unlimited data plans by $5 (http://www.macworld.com/article/3010312/apple-phone/atandt-to-hike-grandfathered-unlimited-data-plans-by-5.html#tk.rss_all) |