Good news and Bad news
Why does it always seem like we take 5 steps forward and 2 steps back.
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AT&T's new text plans not quite unlimited
Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:33AM by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Messaging, ATT-Cingular
Sources tell us that AT&T has some plan changes in the works -- good news for SMS fanatics (not Verizon good, but still good) and bad news for the data-hungry among us. First, the good: MEdia Works will go from 1,000 messages to 1,500 and both Messaging Extreme and MEdia Max will get a bump from 3,000 to 6,000 SMSes monthly, all with no increase in monthly price. Now the very (very) bad news: the $39.99 PDA Unlimited plan will apparently get dropped to a measly 20MB a month; users will need to instead choose the $49.99 plan to steer clear of a hard cap, which'll get boosted from 1,000 texts to 1,500. Excuse us whi...
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Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:33AM by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Messaging, ATT-Cingular
Sources tell us that AT&T has some plan changes in the works -- good news for SMS fanatics (not Verizon good, but still good) and bad news for the data-hungry among us. First, the good: MEdia Works will go from 1,000 messages to 1,500 and both Messaging Extreme and MEdia Max will get a bump from 3,000 to 6,000 SMSes monthly, all with no increase in monthly price. Now the very (very) bad news: the $39.99 PDA Unlimited plan will apparently get dropped to a measly 20MB a month; users will need to instead choose the $49.99 plan to steer clear of a hard cap, which'll get boosted from 1,000 texts to 1,500. Excuse us whi...
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"AT&T's new text plans not quite unlimited
Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:33AM by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Messaging, ATT-Cingular
Sources tell us that AT&T has some plan changes in the works -- good news for SMS fanatics (not Verizon good, but still good) and bad news for the data-hungry among us. First, the good: MEdia Works will go from 1,000 messages to 1,500 and both Messaging Extreme and MEdia Max will get a bump from 3,000 to 6,000 SMSes monthly, all with no increase in monthly price. Now the very (very) bad news: the $39.99 PDA Unlimited plan will apparently get dropped to a measly 20MB a month; users will need to instead choose the $49.99 plan to steer clear of a hard cap, which'll get boosted from 1,0...
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"AT&T's new text plans not quite unlimited
Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:33AM by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Messaging, ATT-Cingular
Sources tell us that AT&T has some plan changes in the works -- good news for SMS fanatics (not Verizon good, but still good) and bad news for the data-hungry among us. First, the good: MEdia Works will go from 1,000 messages to 1,500 and both Messaging Extreme and MEdia Max will get a bump from 3,000 to 6,000 SMSes monthly, all with no increase in monthly price. Now the very (very) bad news: the $39.99 PDA Unlimited plan will apparently get dropped to a measly 20MB a month; users will need to instead choose the $49.99 plan to steer clear of a hard cap, which'll get boosted from 1,0...
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mes3010 said:
Personally I think the $29.99 monthly plan will be a good thing. We have a lot of TDMA users that had the $19.99 plan that switched to prepaid because the lowest monthly plan was $39.99. Think this will bring some of these customers back to postpaid.
The text may not be that big of a deal now that we have the $5 unlimited cingular to cingular. But the DATA is a definite stepback. They are wanting to charge more for a service that has not changed.
They are talking about the data plans, there is no $29.99 monthly voice plans
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averagejoe said:mes3010 said:
Personally I think the $29.99 monthly plan will be a good thing. We have a lot of TDMA users that had the $19.99 plan that switched to prepaid because the lowest monthly plan was $39.99. Think this will bring some of these customers back to postpaid.
The text may not be that big of a deal now that we have the $5 unlimited cingular to cingular. But the DATA is a definite stepback. They are wanting to charge more for a service that has not changed.
They are talking about the data plans, there is no $29.99 monthly voice plans
Actually, there is a $29.99 voice plan, its just not advertised.......
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Used to be, its been removed out of the catalogue totally. only people that can do it is CRT, and they only can with manager approval!!!
Reps were doing it to prevent a pissible escalation, even though it was told to not be offered.
Reps were doing it to prevent a pissible escalation, even though it was told to not be offered.
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Personally I think the $29.99 monthly plan will be a good thing. We have a lot of TDMA users that had the $19.99 plan that switched to prepaid because the lowest monthly plan was $39.99. Think this will bring some of these customers back to postpaid.
i think you have misread...the $39.99 pda connect not the $39.99 voice plan will change. there will never be a $29.99 voice plan except the pick your plan option
i think you have misread...the $39.99 pda connect not the $39.99 voice plan will change. there will never be a $29.99 voice plan except the pick your plan option
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chainsaw said:
Why does it always seem like we take 5 steps forward and 2 steps back.
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/10/atandts-new ... »
i'm confused chainsaw... where is the bad news?
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lol, I didn't read the whole thing. So yeah, I guess its good news all around!
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any word at all on what date these changes will go into effect. Also any rate plan changes or new plans all together (voice)?
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