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AT&T Raising Smartphone Data Plan Prices

The changes below take effect on Sunday, January 22.   If you sign up with AT&T prior to that date, you will be grandfathered into the current pricing.    Use the MyRatePlan  to find your best data plan across the 4 national carriers.


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AT&T Launches New Data Pricing

In a move that will eventually be copied (in some form) by other wireless (and possibly home broadband) providers, AT&T has moved to a tiered, usage-based data pricing for its smartphone devices.

AT&T, T-Mobile Waive Activation Fees

For those in the market for a family plan today, T-Mobile is waiving activation fees on 2 or more lines.   Unfortunately this offer is for today only.

Take Advantage of Lower AT&T and Verizon Pricing

AT&T and Verizon have lowered their unlimited pricing to $69.99/month, $89.99 for unlimited voice & text, $99.99 for unlimited voice, text and data.   Similar decreases are also in effect on the family plan side, where two unlimited lines are $119.99 vs. the previous $199.99.   This is a decrease of about 30% for a single line, 40% for a family plan. Verizon also reduced its 2,100 minute plan to 2,000 minutes, and cut the price by $10.  The carriers are allowing customers to change to these rate plans with no penalty or contract extension.

AT&T to Require Data Plans on Smartphones and BlackBerry

Starting September 6, new AT&T customers who purchase a smartphone or BlackBerry, as well as existing AT&T customers that upgrade to one of those devices will be required to purchase a $30 data plan with their phone.   This requirement puts AT&T in line with the other major carriers, all of whom have had this requirement for a while (although pricing varies by carrier).   Until now, AT&T had only required a data plan for the iPhone, one that is built into a separate series of plans available for that device.

Free Activation from AT&T

 

This special offer from AT&T expires March 22nd at midnight.   You must click the image below to get to the promotion. The link goes to the touch screen LG Vu; you can browse and switch to a different phone.

AT&T Parental Controls

It's a question we get fairly often... how do I better control my child's wireless experience? One solution has just been introduced by AT&T. Called Smart Limits, this $4.99 per-line monthly feature (you didn't think they would do this for free did you??) lets parents set limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls (and from whom), as well as restrict text messages, talk time, ringtones and other downloads.

To view current AT&T phones and plans, click here.

AT&T Unity Plans

If you live in an area with AT&T local phone service, and are considering Cingular/AT&T wireless service, check out the new AT&T Unity cell phone plans. For the most part, these are priced the same as existing Cingular plans but have a couple big differences. Unity plans expand free calling from all Cingular phones (free mobile-to-mobile) to free calling to all other AT&T lines. AT&T claims this means free calling to about 100 million phone lines overall.

AT&T to Acquire BellSouth

The AT&T name has been up and down, bought and sold since the company was broken up by the Government back in the mid 1980's. Now, it is set to become a household name again. SBC, the former Southwestern Bell, renamed itself AT&T after buying that company in 2005. Now, with its announced purchase of BellSouth, AT&T will be the local phone company to most of the southern U.S., and it will be the largest wireless compay in the U.S., as the AT&T name will likely replace that of Cingular, which was jointly owned by AT&T and BellSouth.

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