AT&T To Maintain High Ownership Costs
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Like most folks out there, I tend to feel that AT&T’s data plan for the iPhone is rich. I mean, for the same cost, I can get residential DSL that provides me with a world more data usage than the slow 3G network given to us by AT&T.
Regardless of these feelings however, it seems that AT&T has no intentions of reducing the cost of their data rates for the iPhone 3G S. In short, be prepared to pay the usual price if you decide you want the latest and greatest. Owning the newest mobile products is rarely cheap, so you will have to pay to play, as it were.
This is not to say that the calling/data plans will not be reduced in the future, just do not expect to get the usual all you can use plans at a lesser price. Because frankly, that would just be unrealistic. And yes, I realize that statement is going to tick a number of you off.
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Ryan Keefer
June 16th, 2009
at 6:56am
Totally agree. The other crock is after paying $30 for a data plan, a couple 7-bit character SMS message isn’t part of the data? I can download a whole YouTube video under that data plan, but a < 1K text message is a separate charge? Totally BS!
James Jelinek
June 16th, 2009
at 1:13pm
I’ll side with Ryan. I already pay a bloated fee for my ATT Blackberry service (30 data/20 SMS). That’s 50/month for sub-par service when in reality I’m usually on a WiFi AP somewhere or at home/office more than I am on the go with a phone in hand.
I’m just waiting to see them charge for MMS. A lot of angry IPhone users will speak up, I hope.
Justin Goldberg
June 16th, 2009
at 10:35pm
This is what makes Google Voice so exciting, as you can text through the web. Currently it works either at this url, http://www.google.com/voice/m or through the GV Mobile App.
Scott
June 17th, 2009
at 12:04am
I actually think that they never intended to, and that it was a ploy to get those on the fence due to the high monthly cost to get their hopes up, imagine themselves getting the phone, and then buy anyway after they had pretty much talked themselves into it before realizing AT&T was never going to lower the rates after all.
It was a game.