Switch back?

[jimswms]

Long story short, I was a ATT customer since the iPhone came out. We recently switched to TMobile and saved about $225 month with 5 lines. Awesome. We were always getting random charges on ATT, and never a straight answer as to why. T Mobile has been fine, but frankly, its 2015 and losing service just plain sucks in rural areas. I get 100mb roaming, but throttle it down and its gone quick. I'm thinking of switching back to ATT. Every time I've been roaming on T Mobile, I've been on the ATT network..

I see that they now have a non contract option, but I'm afraid I'll be back to not knowing what my bill is going to be every month. Not an option for me.

We were on a 10gb shared plan and that is fine for us. What is the best ATT option? I see something comparable for $205, but I don't know if ATT is going to work their magic and turn that into something different.

Thoughts?

 

[tech_fan]

Sounds like you are not happy with TMobile and you would be happier with AT&T. I am not the most happy with Verizon. The bill fluctuates like yours does. Verizon does irritate me from time to time. I thought of switching to Sprint or TMobile based on price. Now I just put up with Verizon and would rather tolerate that then run into service that would frustrate me.

 

[TWC42]

My bill with AT&T has always been what I expected. I review every bill carefully with Online Account Management. There are small variations due to changes of a dollar or two in fees and taxes.
The no contract option is the Mobile Share Value plan, where you bring your own phones, buy phone outright, or pay a monthly fee for the phone (where you pay the full retail price of the phone.).
With 10 GB, the plan costs $100. Each non-contract phone's service is $15, Then the taxes and fees. There may be activation fees with the first bill.
The normal bill for the 10 GB plan with 5 lines should be $175 plus t&f, perhaps $200 to $210.
Includes unlimited minutes, unlimited texting, hotspot and the shared data.
You now get rollover for a month. Can't store it for a year as T-Mo does, but it helps avoid an overage once in a while.

 

[jimswms]

My bill with AT&T has always been what I expected. I review every bill carefully with Online Account Management. There are small variations due to changes of a dollar or two in fees and taxes.
The no contract option is the Mobile Share Value plan, where you bring your own phones, buy phone outright, or pay a monthly fee for the phone (where you pay the full retail price of the phone.).
With 10 GB, the plan costs $100. Each non-contract phone's service is $15, Then the taxes and fees. There may be activation fees with the first bill.
The normal bill for the 10 GB plan with 5 lines should be $175 plus t&f, perhaps $200 to $210.
Includes unlimited minutes, unlimited texting, hotspot and the shared data.
You now get rollover for a month. Can't store it for a year as T-Mo does, but it helps avoid an overage once in a while.

That would work fine for me. I'm not seeing $15 per line though at this link. Looks like $40 per smartphone.

 

[S.Meezy]

That would work fine for me. I'm not seeing $15 per line though at this link. Looks like $40 per smartphone.

Scroll down a little further... http://imgur.com/X3H9PxW

OP. Make sure it's no contract, if they screw you over you can always leave.

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[Closingracer]

My bill with AT&T has always been what I expected. I review every bill carefully with Online Account Management. There are small variations due to changes of a dollar or two in fees and taxes.
The no contract option is the Mobile Share Value plan, where you bring your own phones, buy phone outright, or pay a monthly fee for the phone (where you pay the full retail price of the phone.).
With 10 GB, the plan costs $100. Each non-contract phone's service is $15, Then the taxes and fees. There may be activation fees with the first bill.
The normal bill for the 10 GB plan with 5 lines should be $175 plus t&f, perhaps $200 to $210.
Includes unlimited minutes, unlimited texting, hotspot and the shared data.
You now get rollover for a month. Can't store it for a year as T-Mo does, but it helps avoid an overage once in a while.

Verizon and AT&T plans are similar and they both have contract options on the data share plans . Edge or AT&T next are no contract plans and your paying full price for the phone over a period of time with set payments with no interest . They also allow you to buy phones on 2 year contract or full price. With 10gb plans or higher on AT&T or 6gb on Verizon the smartphone access is $40 for 2 year contracts but is $15 a month after $25 dollar discount if your off contract , but full priced phone or on edge or AT&T next .


My t-mobile bill was always around $120 but fluxes a few dollars because of taxes and I assume the same with my Verizon bill now which is $144


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