Frustrated with ATTWS Data Plans

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Matthew Murray - 24 Feb 2004 15:58 GMT

Does anyone out there know if ATTWS will ever offer an all you can eat
GPRS plan? I was on T-Mobile where they had an all you can eat plan
for $29.99 and I can't beleive how much ATTWS is charging for their
plans, which aren't even unlimited.

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John S. - 24 Feb 2004 18:40 GMT

>Does anyone out there know if ATTWS will ever offer an all you can eat
>GPRS plan?

Probably no one knows! How would they!

> I was on T-Mobile where they had an all you can eat plan
>for $29.99

And if you associate it with a phone number that you already have it is only
$19.99.

AT&T WS wants $79.99
Sprint wants $80.00
Verizon wants $79.99

Someone isn't listening to the market's demands - $19.99 is reasonable.

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John S.
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PDA Man - 24 Feb 2004 19:24 GMT

So then my question would be, if you knew that your TMOBILE was only $29.99
and ,of course, you researched your new ATTWS plan, why would you switch?

> Does anyone out there know if ATTWS will ever offer an all you can eat
> GPRS plan? I was on T-Mobile where they had an all you can eat plan
> for $29.99 and I can't beleive how much ATTWS is charging for their
> plans, which aren't even unlimited.

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Nicholas Long - 24 Feb 2004 19:31 GMT

Actually, they do have a 49.99 plan with unlimited GPRS for the Treo 600 and
pda/phones.

Plus, I believe if you have it with a voice plan there is a $5.00 off promo,
making it $44.99 per month.

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Tony Clark - 24 Feb 2004 22:42 GMT

But who wants to buy a $500 phone just to save $30 a month? The break even
on that is about 16 months. If you download less than 10Mb per month going
with the Ultra Plan may be more cost effective (8 mb monthly download + .6
cents per Kb after that for $19.99).

I agree an "all-you-can-eat" plan would be better and I would probably go
for it. Even better would be to support CSD access as other providers do
then I could just tap into my regular minutes.

I guess one reason ATT WS is getting bought is because they couldn't figure
out how to market effectively to customers.

TC

> Actually, they do have a 49.99 plan with unlimited GPRS for the Treo 600 and
> pda/phones.
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> > for $29.99 and I can't beleive how much ATTWS is charging for their
> > plans, which aren't even unlimited.

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Robert M. - 24 Feb 2004 22:51 GMT

> But who wants to buy a $500 phone just to save $30 a month? The break even
> on that is about 16 months. If you download less than 10Mb per month going
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> I guess one reason ATT WS is getting bought is because they couldn't figure
> out how to market effectively to customers.

Only Sprint PCS and T-Mobile have low priced all you can handle Internet
Access plans for consumer phones.

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Nicholas Long - 25 Feb 2004 01:54 GMT

I believe you can get it with any phone if you use alot of data, unless you
plan on using it with your laptop considerably (I think they'd catch
excessive download usage and charge you the $79.99 plan).

> But who wants to buy a $500 phone just to save $30 a month? The break even
> on that is about 16 months. If you download less than 10Mb per month going
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> > > for $29.99 and I can't beleive how much ATTWS is charging for their
> > > plans, which aren't even unlimited.

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Tony Clark - 25 Feb 2004 03:14 GMT

> I believe you can get it with any phone if you use alot of data, unless you
> plan on using it with your laptop considerably (I think they'd catch
> excessive download usage and charge you the $79.99 plan).

If it's available they sure don't advertise it on the web site. But I guess
the point is moot. I wonder what Cingular will do?

TC

SNIP

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