Posts tagged: AT&T

New Deals from T-Mobile and AT&T

This week, from T-Mobile, we have a limited time offer to ‘Share the Apple Watch experience.

 

If you buy one Series 3 Apple Watch, you get a second one for half off.

 

Small Print—>  Via 24 monthly bill credits with qualifying DIGITS™ plan. If you cancel wireless service, credits stop and remaining balance is due.

 

AND! Also from T-Mobile, and offer to Get 4 lines of unlimited for just $35 each. PLUS 2 screen Netflix.

 

Small print —> For new customers only activating 4 lines of service. Capable device required. Limited-time offer; after bill credits with AutoPay. Receive Netflix Standard 2-screen (up to $10.99/month value) while you maintain 2+ qualifying T-Mobile ONE lines in good standing. 

 

From AT&T, you can get a new 32GB iPad for $49.99 when you buy a new iPhone on AT&T Next.

 

Small Print —> Get a 32GB iPad for $49.99 on a 2-year agreement* when you buy any iPhone on AT&T Next(R) *Svc activation req’d on both devices. Fees, charges & restr’s apply.

 

 

AT&T Unlimited Choice plans now get free HBO

Do you have an Unlimited Choice plan with AT&T? Well, for starters, good on you buddy, and for seconders, you now get FREE HBO! Hello Ballers!

 

Just to be clear – AT&T will offer Unlimited Choice customers free streaming HBO on their AT&T devices. ( HBO is normally $14.99 per month).

 

This deal starts  TODAY, Sept. 15, and will work for all new and existing AT&T customers.

 

Until now, AT&T offered this only with its Unlimited Plus plan, which runs starting at $90 per month for one line and increases with each line you add.

 

The Unlimited Choice plan starts at $60 per month for one line. Like the Unlimited Plus plan, and increases when you add more lines.

 

The Unlimited Plus plan includes AT&T’s fastest data speeds and high-definition video streaming, and it allows up to 10 GB of mobile hotspot use per line.  On the other hand, the Unlimited Choice plan is limited to data speeds at 3 MB per second, does not permit mobile hotspot use and caps video-streaming quality at around 480p.

 

 

AT&T comes to the party with all 4 main carriers now offering Unlimited plans

AT&T has a new unlimited data plan! Hooray!

 

 

Starting today! HOORAY

 

Previously only having unlimited data plans available to customers who were also DirecTV or U-Verse Customers, this unlimited plan will be available to all postpaid AT&T customers.

 

The new plan will provide unlimited talk, text, and data on four lines for $180. This includes unlimited calls from the U.S. to Canada and Mexico and unlimited texts to more than 120 countries around the world. Customers are also able to talk, text, and use data in Canada and Mexico with no roaming charges.

 

BUT the $180 is after a $40 credit for the fourth smartphone line, which will start after two billing periods. Prior to then, customers will need to pay $220 per month for the plan.

 

According to AT&T, the company “may slow speeds” during periods of network congestion for customers who consume more than 22GB of data, because, 22GB is kind of a lot, you know?

 

With AT&T coming to the party, now  all of the major carriers in the United States have unlimited data plans available!

 

UNLIMITED DATA PLAN PARTY

 

Sprint and T-Mobile have offered unlimited data plans since August, and Verizon announced its unlimited plan just this week with inclusions like 10GB of tethering data and HD video streaming. T- Mobile have since implemented similar changes.

 

T-Mobile is $70 per month for a single subscriber, Verizon’s plan is $80 or $180 for four subscribers, and Sprint’s plan is priced at $55 per month for a single subscriber, but its coverage can’t compete with T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T.

 

AT&T is $100 per month for the first smart phone, and $40 for additional smartphones with the fourth line free after bill credit.

 

From the Source:

 

 

“We’re offering unlimited entertainment on the nation’s best data network where and when you want to enjoy more of what you love,” said David Christopher, Chief Marketing Officer of the AT&T Entertainment Group.

 

 

 

 

AT&T no longer supports Original iPhone.

Are you… Are you still using an original iPhone?

 

Nah, man, we’re not judging, we’re impressed. That ish is 10 years old dude!

 

But… we have some bad news. AT&T has announced that its 2G wireless network was officially shut down on January 1, 2017, following four years of planning for its discontinuation. Apple made the device obsolete in 2013.

 

This means that your original first generation iPhone will no longer get cellular service from AT&T. Which means… it’s over, dude.

 

You can still use it on Wi-Fi though! House phone! Wait… didn’t we used to have something like that? A House phone?

 

 

AT&T to raise the price on Grandfathered Unlimited Plans

 

Are you on a grandfathered unlimited data plan with AT&T? Bad news bear says if you are, expect to be $5 poorer each month from Febuary next year.

 

Why? Simple. AT&T are raising the grandfathered unlimited data plans from $30 to $35 beginning in Feb, the month of love (and being $5 poorer).

 

This is the first rate change the plan has seen in seven years however this plan has recently become more valuable, with the cap at which you become throttled on congested networks increasing from 5GB of LTE data usage to 22GB in September.

 

If you are on this plan, you will be notified by AT&T, and if you wish to cancel your service because of it, your early termination fees will be waived for the affected lines.

 

 

 

 

 

With AT&T? Use Amex? Read this!

 

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Paying the phone bill has always been a pain in the ass! But! Here’s something that might help you – If you have an AMEX card, you should check your available promotions.

 

Here’s how you do it;

 

Login. Check “Amex Offers For You”.

 

The promotion you’re looking for is: Spend $150 at AT&T and get $150 back . Hell of a good deal.

 

Get on it!!

 

 

 

 

Head of T-Mobile crashed At&T party

 

 

 

 

See this guy? This guy is John Legere, the CEO of T-Mobile. A couple of days ago he was at CES 2014, the biggest consumer electronics show in the world. Probably because he has some kind of mild interest in new technology, right? Also – apparently John Legere really likes Macklemore., because he went to see him perform while he was there, and because Macklemore is pretty rad, right?

 

All of this sounds realllly logical. Until you get to the part where Macklemore was actually performing at the  AT&T CES party at Rain Nightclub, which John Legere crashed, and was promptly escorted out by security because AT&T got a little upset.

 

CNET News Executive Editor Roger Cheng was at the party and tweeted:

 

“Ran into @JohnLegere at the AT&T party. Yep, he crashed it. And still wearing the pink t-mo shirt. #CES2014”

 

and then:

 

“Oh wow, security just escorted @JohnLegere out of the party. AT&T is not happy with my tweet. #ces2014”

 

“Some security guards escorted him out. It was crazy. ”

 

According to a security guard that spoke with Geek Wire AT&T staffers said that the CEO was “harassing” them.

 

 

Later on in the evening, the twitter world heard from the man himself-

 

” @RogerWCheng great to see you! I just love Macklemore! Very bad move by @ATT and #PalmCasino . Have a great night! I am very angry!

 

C’mon guys, can’t we all just get along? What would  Macklemore do? What what what whaaat what what what whaaaaat…?

 

 

 

 

Also, some friday afternoon hilarity just for you guys:

 

 

Images courtesy of Geekwire, Pandawhale & Memecenter

 

 

No more subsidies?

 

No more subsidies?! That makes us go:

 

 

 

 

 

Alright, crash course in subsidies!  A Subsidy is something you more than likely have used or been a part of. It’s a form of financial or in kind support extended to an economic sector, institution, business, or individual generally with the aim of promoting beneficial economic and social outcomes.

 

It’s also what happens when you buy a smartphone in this country, unless you buy it outright.

 

If you paid $199 for an iPhone 5S, or $99 for an iPhone 5C, your carrier subsidized the real cost of the smartphone. This means that you paid a certain amount, and because you signed a two year contract with them guaranteeing your continued business for a locked in period of time, they paid Apple the rest of the cost price of the iPhone.

 

 

All good, right?

 

Well, for now, yeah. Last week however AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson came out and dropped a little mini iPhone world bombshell on the future of subsidies in the smartphone industry.

 

His main point was that with smartphone saturation climbing rapidly towards 90% (!) carriers will need to move on to a different way of doing things, because the current model can’t be maintained at that rate.

 

Carriers like AT&T use the subsidies to drive demand, but with such a high percentage of the population of the country already owning a smartphone, demand moves to upgrades and the companies subsidy system was never meant to support a predominantly upgrading model.

 

So what now? & how will it affect you?

 

 

We’re heading towards a smartphone world with financing rather than subsidies. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company’s new AT&T Next program, which offers no-money down and 0-percent financing, “drives smartphone penetration in a way that is more sustainable over time.”

 

So if you buy an iPhone in the future, you’re still likely to sign a contract. That contract however will be broken up in a way where you can see that each payment period you are paying off a stated amount from the total cost of the smartphone. Separate to that amount would be what you are paying to use the carrier’s service- calls, texts, etc. You would of course also always have the option to buy the phone outright.

 

It’s the way that it’s done in a number of countries around the world and it will be interesting to see if and how the market here adapts and changes.

 

 

 

Images courtesy of 9to5Mac,  Macrumors, 

What’s the top selling Smartphone of the last 3 months?

 

 

A dude named T. Michael Walkley, an analyst over at Canaccord Genuity did some counting, as analysts do, and figured out the top selling Smart phone at AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile for the months September, October and November of this year.

 

And the winner is?

 

 

The iPhone 5S!

 

 

 

Here’s the figures! (Via Appleinsider.)

 

 

Carrier Sales

 

 

The figures were following the same trend last year, with the iPhone 5 being the top selling smartphone of the last quarter of 2012, followed by the Samsung Galaxy S III, and then the iPhone 4 and 4S.

 

Yay iPhone 5S!

 

 

 

Images courtesy of  Youtube & Afuntab.

Deal of the day!

 

This is an awesome deal.

 

AT&T are offering the OtterBox Pursuit Series Waterproof Box in small or medium at a knockout price!

 

Instead of $25 for a small or $40 for a medium, you can now get 3 for $11 or 1 for $5 PLUS FREE Shipping.

 

 

Whaaaaaa!

 

Yup. Go here and here! Do it!

 

Beware, we’re not sure how long this deal is going to be around, and there have been rumors of some people’s orders being cancelled. So cross your fingers and hope for a pretty, cheap as chips Otterbox on it’s way to your house!

 

High five!!

 

 

 

 

 

Images courtesy of Att.com & Grandfather.com