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on Monday June 11 2018, @09:12PM
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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 $45 monthly fee is for wireless data only. These customers pay additional fees for phone calling and texting, roughly doubling the overall price.
AT&T could force these customers to move to newer plans because their contracts ran out years ago. Instead, the carrier has been implementing yearly price hikes and encouraging users to change plans. AT&T urged the customers to "learn more about the benefits of our currently available unlimited rate plans," while noting that customers who switch to a different plan "will not be able to switch back to their current grandfathered unlimited data plan in the future."
[...] AT&T claimed that it is imposing the latest price increase simply to "make sure we continue to provide the best service for all of our customers," because the use of mobile data is hitting "record levels."
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 12 2018, @12:18AM
Americans are Jewed hardcore with data plans a lot more than many other more uncivilized nations. They do it because they can.
Although to be fair to AT&T they do have good customer service. I have probably mentioned this story before, but one time many years ago AT&T tried to stack a bullshit 2$/mo charge for a feature I didn't even order. A common practice at the time for all American telecoms. Angry, I called their customer service. They quickly reversed all the bullshit charges and apologized. When the rep asked me if there was anything else she could do for me, I asked her to tell her manager that I objected to their unconstitutional warrantless spying on the American people in concert with the NSA.
That was almost exactly a year before the Snowden revelations broke.
Anyway, I'm starting to wonder whether or not my phone is RoHS trash, because it hasen't died yet. And why is it that everytime I see a newer phone like the latest iPhone or Galaxy in public, the glass is always shattered and unrepaired? Having to deal with that daily would drive me apeshit.