AT&T’s New Limited Data Plan can help many customers save on their bill

04 Jun 2010 - Dave

Reading the news about AT&T’s data plan changes I followed the pundits. It really sounded like a bad deal, giving up Unlimited data!

But when I checked my AT&T account history my actual usage never went over the new lower plan of 200 Mb/month. My iPhone gets a fair amount of use with web browsing, email, Twitter and several other apps that sync with the web. That is half the cost of what I’m paying for data now. The higher plan is still a $5/month savings for 10 times the data I now use. Not much room to complain about that.

Should have done this a while ago – create a contact “AT&T Data Usage” with “*DATA#”. That provides a quick text message with current monthly balance.

I need to read more about the tethering. I wonder if AT&T would allow something like the iPad 3G plan, enabling tethering by the month. Or even day passes…

My commitment is up this summer. A new iPhone & OS is due. And AT&T has some interesting plan changes. Sounds like good news…for folks like me anyways.

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