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[Puggles]

It's still $9 cheaper to stay on my grandfathered plan with discount. I'm done with ATT when my phone is paid off in 3 months.

 

[EYEL1NER]

I should probably switch over to this. I'm currently paying $112 (after taxes) for a grandfathered plan with 500 minutes/month (I've currently got 2300 rollover minutes too), unlimited texted, and unlimited data. That is after a 15% military discount which seems to still apply to the "new" unlimited plan? I'll need a new line soon when I pick up another phone. There seems to be some savings there.

 

[Husker86]

Has anyone gotten their bill, yet?

I'm VERY tempted to finally let go of my grandfathered unlimited plan. It's been great for me, as a singular person. But I cover my mom and sis, too - and they both get 3GB month, and go over all the time.

My current bill is $209 for unlimited + 3gb + 3gb. AT&T claims on the new plan it would $175 for unlimited + unlimited + unlimited, all WITH tethering. Seems like a super no-brainer. However, I just know there's no coming back to my current grandfathered plan, so I want to be CERTAIN there are no surprises.

I'm guaranteed to stay grandfathered into this should AT&T decide to get rid of it again, in the future, right?

Yeah, and taxes/fees were like $50 (4 lines). I jumped ship to TMobile. Nebraska has one of the highest taxes for mobile phones, but still, I'm tired of not knowing exactly what I'm going to pay.

TMobile definitely has some work to do in Omaha, but they've improved a lot so I'm going to give them a chance for a few months.

Your $209 is after all taxes and fees, I assume. If the $175 isn't, then I'd bet you'll be at least the same as you are now (which is still better since you get more).

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

Are you particularly attached to AT&T? You could be paying $140 for 3 lines unlimited everything w/ tethering (already includes all taxes and fees) w/ T-Mobile. I let go of my grandfathered AT&T data plan a month ago, and it's been great.

I travel a LOT for my job - multiple states per month. Unfortunately, T-Mobile and Sprint just do not have the coverage I need; that leaves Verizon, but I prefer AT&T's GSM network, allowing for typically more phones/devices.

Real shame about all the fees. But I already have fees out the ass, and I can't imagine I'll have MORE fees on this plan (famous last words).

 

[LogicStep]

I wonder how truthful that 22gb thing is. Will they only really throttle you if there's congestion or will the throttle you always? This plan is better than what my family has.

 

[The Lamonster]

So you're capped at 3mpbs for 22GB. What are the speeds on the old normal plans?

 

[TheAbsolution]

I wonder how truthful that 22gb thing is. Will they only really throttle you if there's congestion or will the throttle you always? This plan is better than what my family has.

The former. In my experience, it's literally only when there's a crush of people on the network.

 

[Prologue]

why not just use cricket? don't they use the same bands?

 

[TheAbsolution]

why not just use cricket? don't they use the same bands?

They restrict you to 480p video streaming.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Are you particularly attached to AT&T? You could be paying $140 for 3 lines unlimited everything w/ tethering (already includes all taxes and fees) w/ T-Mobile. I let go of my grandfathered AT&T data plan a month ago, and it's been great.

How is T-Mobile's speed/reliability and coverage these days?

 

[Giolon]

How is T-Mobile's speed/reliability and coverage these days?

In the Bay Area, speed-wise it's been good, coverage has been similar to AT&T, maybe a little worse (some places where I'd get no AT&T signal I have 1 or 2 bars on T-Mobile, some places where I'd have full AT&T signal I have 3-4 bars on T-Mobile), but the "bad" spots are in mostly the same places as AT&T's. I'd say I've had a similar amount of dropped calls as I had on AT&T, maybe a few more. It's hard to tell. However, it hasn't been half the quality for certain. Maybe somewhere around 90-95% the same experience for about 60% the price.

My bro said it's been fine traveling all over the US major cities, and family says it's been fine in central California.

 

[Particle Physicist]

In the Bay Area, speed-wise it's been good, coverage has been similar to AT&T, maybe a little worse (some places where I'd get no AT&T signal I have 1 or 2 bars on T-Mobile, some places where I'd have full AT&T signal I have 3-4 bars on T-Mobile), but the "bad" spots are in mostly the same places as AT&T's. I'd say I've had a similar amount of dropped calls as I had on AT&T, maybe a few more. It's hard to tell. However, it hasn't been half the quality for certain. Maybe somewhere around 90-95% the same experience for about 60% the price.

My bro said it's been fine traveling all over the US major cities, and family says it's been fine in central California.

I'll be moving to the bay area-ish soon. Currently have ATT but I am sick of it and t-mobile has 100 for two lines unlimited everything. Sounds like a great deal. Any drawback to their plans?

Can you tether with t-mobile? Does it have wifi calling?

 

[NeOak]

So you're capped at 3mpbs for 22GB. What are the speeds on the old normal plans?

You're looking at the "cheap" unlimited plan. Check their "plus" plan.

why not just use cricket? don't they use the same bands?

You should check the differences. Cricket clients are second class citizens at the towers, among other things, like no VoLTE yet and 8 Mbit/s hard cap.

 

[NeOak]

I should probably switch over to this. I'm currently paying $112 (after taxes) for a grandfathered plan with 500 minutes/month (I've currently got 2300 rollover minutes too), unlimited texted, and unlimited data. That is after a 15% military discount which seems to still apply to the "new" unlimited plan? I'll need a new line soon when I pick up another phone. There seems to be some savings there.

Yeah, if you have the military discount, it makes sense for you to switch plans.

 

[Giolon]

I'll be moving to the bay area-ish soon. Currently have ATT but I am sick of it and t-mobile has 100 for two lines unlimited everything. Sounds like a great deal. Any drawback to their plans?

It's been a month, and I haven't found any gotchas or had any regrets yet. It was a little bit scary giving up my grandfathered AT&T unlimited plan because there was literally no going back (this was a week or two before AT&T announced their new plan that this thread is about).

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

I'll be moving to the bay area-ish soon. Currently have ATT but I am sick of it and t-mobile has 100 for two lines unlimited everything. Sounds like a great deal. Any drawback to their plans?

Can you tether with t-mobile? Does it have wifi calling?

I'm paying $25 extra for unlimited 4G tethering on t-mobile. Pretty sure, depending on the plan, unlimited 3G is included. And yes it's had WiFi calling for ages.

 

[FreshCakes]

Yeah, I'll stay with Sprint for now

 

[Prologue]

You're looking at the "cheap" unlimited plan. Check their "plus" plan.


You should check the differences. Cricket clients are second class citizens at the towers, among other things, like no VoLTE yet and 8 Mbit/s hard cap.

I've been pretty happy with my service. Then again i only use about 1gb of data month.

 

[NeOak]

I'm paying $25 extra for unlimited 4G tethering on t-mobile. Pretty sure, depending on the plan, unlimited 3G is included. And yes it's had WiFi calling for ages.

T-Mob as unlimited "3G" tethering after 14 GB on their current plans, yeah.

I've been pretty happy with my service. Then again i only use about 1gb of data month.

No wonder. I can burn 1GB in a day.

But if it works for you, that's great. No reason to switch.

 

[Wads]

Lamest part of this expensive af plan is there is also no employee discount. They really just don't want people on unlimited...

 

[norm9]

I hopped back to verizon, waiting for my sim card. I'd have switched to t-mobile unlimited but my note 4 is not compatible with tmo bile networks.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

I guess its time to finally drop my grandfathered unlimited plan.

 

[The Lamonster]

You're looking at the "cheap" unlimited plan. Check their "plus" plan.

I know, I'm just curious what the speeds were on the old plans. Is 3mbps that slow for an iPhone over data?

 

[NeOak]

I know, I'm just curious what the speeds were on the old plans. Is 3mbps that slow for an iPhone over data?

If you mean the old grandfathered data plan, speeds were not limited until you were throttled.

3 mbits should give you around 300 KB/s.

 

[this_guy]

I know, I'm just curious what the speeds were on the old plans. Is 3mbps that slow for an iPhone over data?

3mbps is fine for web browsing, checking email, Facebook, etc. If you're trying to stream video you won't be able to stream HD. Web pages with tons of pictures or videos might load a little slower.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Quick question guys......the 22GB throttling thing is per line right??
10GB tethering per line as well?

 

[Tigress]

Question, does the grandfathered unlimited plan get faster speeds than what hey limit the cheaper unlimited plan to? (I'm talking pre throttling)

 

[NeOak]

Quick question guys......the 22GB throttling thing is per line right??
10GB tethering per line as well?

Per line, yes

Question, does the grandfathered unlimited plan get faster speeds than what hey limit the cheaper unlimited plan to? (I'm talking pre throttling)

The grandfathered plan has no bandwidth cap.

 

[Tigress]

The grandfathered plan has no bandwidth cap.

Ah, so I should be wary if they try to change me over to it. Last time they changed me to a different unlimited plan it was cause I went from a 3g phone to LTE and they just put me on the LTE unlimited plan which actually was to my advantage as it was faster and had a larger throttling cap. So they had some sort of hardware excuse that my unlimited didn't work on the new phone. But they didn't do what I expect and worried about which is to say say I couldn't get unlimited anymore cause I was only grandfathered on a plan that didn't work on the new phone, they just switched me to an LTE unlimited plan. So far when it comes to grandfathering me I've been pretty happy with how they treated me but I always worry since they want me off my old plan they'll eventually find some way to kick me off (I think I'm one of the few though that has been overall happy with them. They even just turned our old grandfathered voice plan into an unlimited text and data plan for the same price as our grandfathered voice plan a year or so ago. No idea why, they claimed it was cause we were such loyal customers - call me cynical to think there is some other reason but that was the make us look good reason). Granted i've stayed cause I've seen no reason to leave but if they kicked me off it would be time to shop around.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

We have 4 lines currently (me, wife, 2 teens) with 15GB/mo + rollover on unused data. There are months where we hit that 75% of usage only halfway through the month and need to basically go into airplane mode for a couple of weeks to not get charged.

I'm considering the unlimited plan but pretty sure it's outrageously more expensive--on top of an already outrageously expensive plan--to do it.

Ugh.

 

[NeOak]

We have 4 lines currently (me, wife, 2 teens) with 15GB/mo + rollover on unused data. There are months where we hit that 75% of usage only halfway through the month and need to basically go into airplane mode for a couple of weeks to not get charged.

I'm considering the unlimited plan but pretty sure it's outrageously more expensive--on top of an already outrageously expensive plan--to do it.

Ugh.

Yeah, it would be $195+taxes per month for you.