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posted by janrinok on Monday June 11 2018, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the gotta-keep-those-profits-coming-in dept.

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AT&T is imposing another $5-per-month price increase on customers who have held onto a decade-old grandfathered unlimited data plan. The new price will be $45 a month.

The data plan's price was $30 monthly for seven years until AT&T raised it to $35 in February 2016. A second $5 bump brought the price to $40 a month in January 2017. The third $5 increase in three years will kick in next month.

"Customers who have a grandfathered $40 data plan will receive notifications of a $5 per month rate increase for the data plan," AT&T said in the price increase announcement. "The rate increase will take effect starting with the customer’s July, 2018 service."

The $45 monthly fee is for wireless data only. These customers pay additional fees for phone calling and texting, roughly doubling the overall price.

AT&T could force these customers to move to newer plans because their contracts ran out years ago. Instead, the carrier has been implementing yearly price hikes and encouraging users to change plans. AT&T urged the customers to "learn more about the benefits of our currently available unlimited rate plans," while noting that customers who switch to a different plan "will not be able to switch back to their current grandfathered unlimited data plan in the future."

[...] AT&T claimed that it is imposing the latest price increase simply to "make sure we continue to provide the best service for all of our customers," because the use of mobile data is hitting "record levels."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:03AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:03AM (#691671)

    When Sprint and Qualcomm started their Pioneer Plan (around 1999) you got a $400 phone with $0.35/minute calls and unlimited texts with no other monthly service fees and promises of free phone upgrades for life. When my phone finally died I called Sprint. "We no longer support the Pioneer Plan, so you'll have to buy a new phone and a different service plan". FUCK SPRINT.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:10AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:10AM (#691674) Homepage

    Sprint has always sucked. They were good if you needed cheap plans in all the rural areas other providers were too afraid to be good at, but nowhere else.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:33AM

      by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:33AM (#691688) Journal

      Sprint in rural areas?

      If they were't roaming on Verizon they wouldn't have coverage except in cities.
      When within Verizon roaming coverage areas the incoming call completion rates are useless. Drive into a city ans 16 text messages arrive, all wondering where you have been and if you are ok.

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