Att to launch cheaper prepaid plans in June.

[aokusman1]

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/5/3...y-launching-new-all-in-one-prepaid-brand-june

Must be the tmobile effect. Now if your Att contract is up you bill can go down, like in tmobile.

$35 non smart phone
$50 unlim with 2gb
$70 unlim with 5gb.

I will cancel my contract and go with this. I will save $40 a month and give up one gb of data and gain unlim min.

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[Slingbox]

hmm 5GB HSPA+ for 70 bucs is pretty tempting I may cancel my contract as well.

 

[aokusman1]

hmm 5GB HSPA+ for 70 bucs is pretty tempting I may cancel my contract as well.

Im paying 90 right now for 3gb and 450 min

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[dpham00]

Is there a family plan? I an paying $48 for my share of the family plan with unlimited unthrottled 4GLTE on Verizon. If they get a true unlimited unthrottled 4GLTE plan prepaid for $30-35 per family line, then I may be interested. I don't care about minutes and texts much, so unlimited there is kinda meaningless to me.

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[aokusman1]

Is there a family plan? I an paying $48 for my share of the family plan with unlimited unthrottled 4GLTE on Verizon. If they get a true unlimited unthrottled 4GLTE plan prepaid for $30-35 per family line, then I may be interested. I don't care about minutes and texts much, so unlimited there is kinda meaningless to me.

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No lte on this im afraid.

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[cgardnervt]

If this is the case I may just ditch my contract too. Savings is a savings. Just get a nexus device and call it a day!

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[aokusman1]

If this is the case I may just ditch my contract too. Savings is a savings. Just get a nexus device and call it a day!

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I agree. Lte is not a deal breaker. As long as there are data caps I won't be streaming any sort of video, I dont have 4g right yet i can stream YouTube HD. Seeing out the next 10 months of my contract will cost me $900. Paying the etf and switching to prepaid will cost me $670 over the same period, plus I gain unlimited minutes.

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[cgardnervt]

I agree. Lte is not a deal breaker. As long as there are data caps I won't be streaming any sort of video, I dont have 4g right yet i can stream YouTube HD. Seeing out the next 10 months of my contract will cost me $900. Paying the etf and switching to prepaid will cost me $670 over the same period, plus I gain unlimited minutes.

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This is what the base share everything plan should be anyways. But thats just me! i will be happy to save more money to go Prepaid.

 

[aokusman1]

This is what the base share everything plan should be anyways. But thats just me! i will be happy to save more money to go Prepaid.

Share everything plan is a Rio off. Sure you are paying a little less, if you are on a family plan, but they are taking away a lot.

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[cgardnervt]

Share everything plan is a Rio off. Sure you are paying a little less, if you are on a family plan, but they are taking away a lot.

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Well right now as it currently stands I have a single line. I get 450 minutes, 3 gigs of data and I use Google voice because I don't want to pay for texting and I like Google voice so far for around $70 a month. IF They would allow a single line of service for the family share plan for about the same price I'd just switch and call it day and stick with post paid. I just hate having to spend $90 for unlimited texting when its the single best way to communicate and it doesn't take much bandwidth for the carrier. Never understood it really other than they got ya by the balls for texting I guess. Until GV came around!

 

[yfan]

I wonder if T-Mobile will respond to this in any way. If AT&T can pull off a 2GB plan for $50 compared to T-Mobile's $60 for 2GB, AT&T's advantage on coverage area will pretty well undercut T-Mobile. Granted, AT&T's HSPA+ is not HSDPA, (it's HSPA+ 21 as opposed to HSPA+ 42 for T-Mobile), but customers looking to stay under a roughly 2GB cap will hardly care about that or even be terribly affected by it.

But then, I am also wondering if the price points in The Verge's report are correct. I mean, if AT&T does offer these cheaper prepaid alternatives, what's the incentive for anyone who has to deal with a data cap to be on AT&T's expensive postpaid plans? LTE eats up battery life, and takes up data fast. So other than the few who are gamers or for some reason (or no reason) really want LTE, wouldn't AT&T be undercutting its own business by launching plans that are this much cheaper?

 

[aokusman1]

Well right now as it currently stands I have a single line. I get 450 minutes, 3 gigs of data and I use Google voice because I don't want to pay for texting and I like Google voice so far for around $70 a month. IF They would allow a single line of service for the family share plan for about the same price I'd just switch and call it day and stick with post paid. I just hate having to spend $90 for unlimited texting when its the single best way to communicate and it doesn't take much bandwidth for the carrier. Never understood it really other than they got ya by the balls for texting I guess. Until GV came around!

Used to use Google voice for texting too but had to eventually get a texting plan. Last summer I spent a lot of time in the hills guarding my army units arsenal and there was hardly any data signal, so gvoice text didn't work. It's annoying that I am forced to pay $20 for unlimited text and I only use 700 to 1000 a month.

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[yfan]

Used to use Google voice for texting too but had to eventually get a texting plan. Last summer I spent a lot of time in the hills guarding my army units arsenal and there was hardly any data signal, so gvoice text didn't work. It's annoying that I am forced to pay $20 for unlimited text and I only use 700 to 1000 a month.

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Well, 30 texts a day hardly counts as "only", but I do agree with your larger point. texting costs the carriers next to nothing, and there really is no excuse for them to charge $20 extra for it.

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[aokusman1]

I wonder if T-Mobile will respond to this in any way. If AT&T can pull off a 2GB plan for $50 compared to T-Mobile's $60 for 2GB, AT&T's advantage on coverage area will pretty well undercut T-Mobile. Granted, AT&T's HSPA+ is not HSDPA, (it's HSPA+ 21 as opposed to HSPA+ 42 for T-Mobile), but customers looking to stay under a roughly 2GB cap will hardly care about that or even be terribly affected by it.

But then, I am also wondering if the price points in The Verge's report are correct. I mean, if AT&T does offer these cheaper prepaid alternatives, what's the incentive for anyone who has to deal with a data cap to be on AT&T's expensive postpaid plans? LTE eats up battery life, and takes up data fast. So other than the few who are gamers or for some reason (or no reason) really want LTE, wouldn't AT&T be undercutting its own business by launching plans that are this much cheaper?

The incentive to get on a post paid plan, would be Lte, subsidy, tethering, for those that care. Most people won't pay $600+ for a phone upfront even though it's cheaper in the long run.

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[jdbii]

The incentive to get on a post paid plan, would be Lte, subsidy, tethering, for those that care. Most people won't pay $600+ for a phone upfront even though it's cheaper in the long run.

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I would speculate that another benefit of sticking with postpaid is that the non-LTE speeds on postpaid would be much higher and more consistent then the speeds you'll on prepaid. I'm basing this guess on the terrible and erratic service many customers get on MVNO's that use AT&T towers. For instance, AT&T Straight Talk and AT&T Net10 can have speeds not much more than 1 mbps most of the time. Some people get lucky and have better service, but many customers only get about 1-2 mbps, or even lower much of the time, and they get subject to all kinds of random throttling.

I'd be really hesitant to break a contract if it only saved me $200-$300 and I had an LTE phone that wasn't going to work on AT&T prepaid.

 

[cgardnervt]

I would speculate that another benefit of sticking with postpaid is that the non-LTE speeds on postpaid would be much higher and more consistent then the speeds you'll on prepaid. I'm basing this guess on the terrible and erratic service many customers get on MVNO's that use AT&T towers. For instance, AT&T Straight Talk and AT&T Net10 can have speeds not much more than 1 mbps most of the time. Some people get lucky and have better service, but many customers only get about 1-2 mbps, or even lower much of the time, and they get subject to all kinds of random throttling.

I'd be really hesitant to break a contract if it only saved me $200-$300 and I had an LTE phone that wasn't going to work on AT&T prepaid.

I personally could careless about LTE. Sometime in the future Prepeaid will be allowed on it when the HSPA+ network is gone. Until then I will take my 10 megs down on HSPA+ and surf at half the cost.

 

[Gekko]

i will probably dump Sprint and switch to this $50 AT&T plan when my contract is up. 2GB is all i need and i'll just get the Nexus "5" and be all set.

i just hope that these new AT&T plans support CCF - "Conditional Call Forwarding" so i can continue to use Google Voice Lite for my Voicemail service.

 

[jdbii]

I personally could careless about LTE. Sometime in the future Prepeaid will be allowed on it when the HSPA+ network is gone. Until then I will take my 10 megs down on HSPA+ and surf at half the cost.

Me too, but if AT&T Straight Talk and AT&T Net10 are any indicator on what kind of prepaid HSPA+ speeds to expect, then you will be lucky to get 5 megs.

 

[krisguy]

Here it is: Aio Wireless

Aio Wireless

 

[mcshaggin]

Only available in a few cities right now which is strange being they are an AT&T MVNO. AT&T must be a real ripoff if these are good prices. They are better than post paid but Straight talk and Solivea are still better deals.