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Tuesday
Jun082010

Off AT&T’s Menu: All You Can Eat 

 

It’s the end of an era for some of our heaviest phone data users. AT&T recently released new pricing that transitions from an all-you-can-eat data structure to one where those who consume the most network pay more. Industry watchers expect other carriers to follow suit. Concerns focus on cost to the user. Tiering plans by low and high usage will leave the lower-priced plans with limited capabilities. And, at low usage, or 250 MB, for the AT&T $15 plan (half the price of the original $30 unlimited usage plan), users may easily exceed the threshold by watching a few videos.  The bottom line? Even "high" plan users will have to be careful, and with a time delay for registering of total data usage, they won’t know they exceeded limits until it's too late.

Customers are wary that new contracts today may come with loss of their unlimited data plans, which could end up doubling costs of data.  For this reason and more, customers are saying no to “free” upgrades and yes to freedom from contracts, which GreenCells provides. Today’s customers want to know what they’re paying for—and GreenCells empowers them to buy used cell phones with significant cost savings and the flexibility to upgrade to newer models at any time. There are many benefits to the GreenCells independent approach, which allows customers to purchase a GreenCells upgrade and maintain an unlimited data plan or take advantage of a grandfathered package.

 

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