While the vast majority of iPhone customers choose for all - inclusive ( but expensive ) contracts , those miserly pay as you go customers that depend on the $ 20 MEdia final straight-out data add - on to spare money in the long term will be broken to find that , as of November 12th , they wo n’t have that pick . AT&T has determine to end the service , which — though never designate for utilization with the iPhone — was the sole reasonableness that many people could justify paying the full unsubsidized price ( or breaking their declaration ) , because it was comparatively unpopular . The announcement was made in a school text sent to MEdia Net substance abuser :
AT&T Free Msg : Unlimited MEdia Net Packages will no longer be useable as of 11/12 . 1 MB and 5 megabyte MEdia Net packages still available . Call 611 for point
Hey , at least the message was gratis . The 1Mb and 5 MB options will be little consolation to iPhone user , who can easy exit the 5 Mbit roadblock during a Clarence Day of casual browse and will then obtain a hilarious$480 per gigabyterate for data transfer . Is this penalisation for not listen AT&T’sspooky warningslast month ? Reader Cyber Llama relates his situation , in which he ’s got lots of company :
Like many other iPhone drug user , I ’m far , far too cheap to actually pay for the iPhone Plan . At the 25 cents a minute rate , I only oversee to do about 10 clam worth of talking per calendar month ( most of my Call are probably a min long on average ) so with unlimited MEdia Net I get by at ~$30 a month . I ’m quite certain I ’m not a alone — band of hoi polloi do n’t want to give for M of fresh talk minutes and unlimited text message that they will never use . With that in mind , it ’s easy to see why AT&T ’s decision fills me with more rage than a sack full of hungry badgers . To make matters bad , I called 611 and the client service representative had the ball to say that the ground AT&T was doing aside with the unlimited parcel was because “ no one used it ” and it “ did n’t make sense to have it ” .
I ’m sure we ’ll hear more about this , as people tend to respond kind of earnestly when you effectively brick their expensive young iPhone ( or Palm , or Blackberry ) , even if the plan was n’t necessarily meant for their equipment . Strangely enough the AT&T website does n’t yet contemplate this alteration , butArs corroborates . UPDATE : A point of clarification : this change will only affect customers who are using a pay as you go plan not in the first place mean for the iPhone . Customers who buy the ( slightly more expensive ) iPhone Pick Your Plan alternative will not be affected . -Thanks , Cyber Llama
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