From tomorrow, AT&T will cut the price of its 2GB data plan tier ‘Mobile Share Value’ from $55 to $40. In total, this plan will cost you $65 per month in data charges for one device, comprised of the reduced $40 data plan and a $25 device charge. As usual, there is a $25 charge for each device that shares the data allowance. For one device, this represents an overall reduction of approximately 20% of AT&T’s current offerings. Otherwise, the plans remain the same with unlimited talk and text service, unlimited international messaging in addition to the shared data.
Yesterday, T-Mobile announced more ‘Uncarrier’ changes to its plans. T-Mobile has doubled the LTE data bucket from 500MB to 1GB on the $50 Simple Choice plan. The data cap on the $60 plan has also been increased by 500MB, from 2.5GB to 3GB. The carrier has also introduced a new $80 tier, which offers unlimited data on 4G LTE.
The reshuffling has meant that the $70 option has suffered slightly, going from unlimited 4G LTE to just 5GB of data, although T-Mobile has doubled the tethering allowance to 5GB too.
However, T-Mobile now also bundles unlimited international texting into all of its plans. This means texting worldwide is now completely free, a big saving compared to charging per text sent as before. AT&T bundled unlimited international texting into its plans back in February. T-Mobile also announced a slight expansion of its global free data roaming to include Afghanistan, Guam, Honduras, Macau, Uganda, San Marino and the Canary Islands.
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So what about the 4 GB and 6 GB plans from AT&T? Will they also see a reduction in price?
This actually started for at&t a few weeks ago but you had to call to have the changes made. I went from having a 6gb to a 10gb and saving $30/month.
does that mean my $70 dollar plan i tmobile will change or am i grandfathered in?
Gotta love competition. However, US cellular plans are still very expensive compared to many other parts of the world.
If regulators didn’t step in, AT&T and T-Mobile would have merged. And if they merged, prices would have gone up across the industry. At least now there is some notion of competition.
But now you have Sprint/SoftBank trying to do the same thing.
AT&T announced to offers 2GB sharable data i.e 1GB each for two for $90 while
T-Mobile offers great deal 1GB each for three family members at $90 only ….Mr Legere is awesome guy !!!….
If anyone wants to join Sprint my framily ID# is B00690276kM (capital B zero zero 69 zero 276 lowercase k capital M) last 4 digits of number is 0192 join me and get service for as cheap as $25 get unlimited data for $20 more plus having service for 31 days receive a $200 visa card for porting your number over