UPDATE 1/6: AT&T reached out and confirmed the changes to us. The only difference is the new plans and upgraded data bucket amounts will be live on January 8, not January 6 as we originally reported.
Tomorrow, AT&T will introduce some changes to their prepaid plans that include more data without a price hike, according to sources of ours.
The $60 GoPhone prepaid plan from AT&T will jump from 4GB of high-speed data per month to 5GB. The $45 GoPhone prepaid plan is jumping from 1.5GB of high-speed data per month to 2GB.
If these changes are like the data bucket increases we have seen in the past, you should be automatically jumped up to the new amount on your next billing cycle following the change.
On a related note, the $0.10 per minute prepaid talk plan is jumping up to $0.25 per minute. If you are currently using the $0.10 plan, you will be able to keep it for now.
Again, the changes should be announced tomorrow, January 6.
I am glad to hear my mother’s 10 cent plan will be grandfathered. I just put her on a cheap Android just so she can play games. She has no data, but that’s fine. Times have definitely changed, per minute plans are really an extinct species. Verizon killed theirs, and AT&T is trying yo do the same.
WTF man
I just refilled with the $60 plan on the 4th… Will I get the extra 1GB added to my stash? If not, then I’m switching to T-mo. Don’t make me switch ATT.
i love it! 2GB is plenty for me. Nexus 6P + AT&T GoPhone is the best value bar none IMO.
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Verizon will wait a couple months and throw an extra half gig on their prepaid offerings as well
I’ll stick to Cricket.
I just wish that Cricket would allow one plan to be shared. I have the 20GB/$55 plan but had to get my GF her own 5GB/$50 plan which sucks. I only use like 5GB of my 20GB…would love to give the rest to her without paying more.
So…either downgrade your account or just keep paying? Her account should be $45 as well.
I’ve got my 5gb account with a couple other family members and I think my split is like 35 a month.
That’s not what I’m talking about lol. Why would I downgrade my account from 20GB to 5GB when it’s basically the same price?
I want two phones sharing one plan (that is 20GB) for $55/month. Not two phones, with two 5GB plans, for $35/month (or $40 or $45).
Unfortunately, on Cricket, all phones require their own lines so you’re paying at least $35×2 for 2.5GB each.
The fact that the data allowances aren’t shared is actually one of my favorite things about cricket. I hate sharing data and want mine all to myself. If you want a shared plan, you might actually pay the same or less on a shared family plan from at&t or Verizon depending on your usage.
Just wish it was an option. If you wanted to share you can, if you didn’t, you wouldn’t have to.
However, I did take a look and evidently AT&T is running a promotion for a shared 15GB plan that is $100. Which isn’t terrible considering the speeds would be uncapped. However, that does not include taxes and I’m sure line fees.
Cricket, on the other hand, is $110 all said and done for two lines (line 1 – 20GB, line 2 – 5GB). I don’t use 20GB a month, but I work from home and occasionally travel and tether my laptop to my phone…sometimes I’ll use 10-13GB easy. 20GB is just nice to have, considering it’s the same price as most people’s 5GB plans. Would hate to lose it.
Yup, options are nice. I’m doing OK on Cricket’s 2.5GB plan (thought I would need more but realized I was coming in under 2.5), but I’ll jump at the chance to grab the 20GB plan if they bring it out again. It happened at the end of January/beginning of February last year, so I’m crossing my fingers that they do it again this year.
I recently joined cricket and chose the $60/10gb plan. Is only $55 with autopay. But how did you get 20 gb for the same price, was this a few years ago? I used to be a tmo customer for 3 years on the $30 plan, but coverage was spotty and got no coverage at my job because of thick walls. Cricket really has better coverage including indoor since they are owned by AT&T. I would love to see Cricket and Gophone merge into one prepaid, with the restrictions removed from Cricket.
Yeah it was a one-time offer for like a week. Now I’m grandfathered in. Even if I could share the 10GB plan for $55 with my girl that would be better than 2 5GB plans for $35 each.
I was on legit AT&T for like 2 months before I got sick of paying $130 for one phone and 5GB (or was it 10GB? Either way it was too much) at the time. Been with Cricket for like 2 years now and don’t regret it (it was first called Aio Wireless before they merged – Aio’s system but Crickets name I guess).
Only thing I wish they’d really fix is the 10 person MMS limit…REALLY f’s up my group chats when trying to coordinate a night out or something.
I think that might be related to an MMS limitation, not the carrier.
Oh, I read that it was carrier specific. My iPhone buddies don’t seem to have that issue…the only time they can rub their iPhone in my face and say “booyah” lol…but none of them are also on AT&T/Cricket.
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rumor is the 20 GB plan will be back before the end of the month for a limited time
Nice. I’ll have to hop on that for her. Do they notify existing customers? Last time I got it, it was cause DL posted it.
I’ve been waiting. And it’s still not back 🙁
you’re a second class citizen on Cricket. proxy throttle and low tower priority. ghetto stores, ghetto service.
I haven’t experienced a lower tower priority.
It’ll be interesting to see if Cricket adds a gig or so to stay ahead. I know Cricket has higher pingtimes and a 8mb download cap, but I think they’re a fantastic option and I steer people that way sometimes. If Cricket doesn’t add anything, that puts the AT&T 2gb for $40 after autopay discount, and Cricket 2.5gb for $35 after autopay discount. I know for $5 more I’d go AT&T (allegedly slightly better roaming, too).
Cricket is a great option if you NEED the AT&T network. You’re getting less in terms of overall speed (as it’s capped at 8mbps), you’re missing out on things like Music Freedom, and BingeOn if you chose them over T-Mobile, but all in all, Cricket is a good deal, and they often double data promotions.
What funny is I’m seeing 20Mb/s on average LTE, and I’m testing off net. Cricket $55/20GB plan here.
I’ve seen that myself recently…. Before I left cricket. Not sure what’s going on there.
Agreed. All about the towers. The gadget has to work where I need it to work 95% of the time before I factor in other benefits. I sure love unlocked phones and using prepaid, though. Over the last 5years I’ve switched between Verizon postpaid, T-mobile, and Cricket depending on my tower needs– all in the same town even. (We’re not a band 12 town yet, so the inbuilding coverage was sucking really bad with T-mobile for me at my current workplace… other end of town is vice versa lol).
That’ll be up to At&t
I keep looking Cricket’s way, but Straight Talk keeps me hanging on. 5gb of data for 42.50 after autopay discount is hard to beat.
No group share discount on AT&T though. That’s what keeps my family on cricket.
Cricket is pissing me off. Just paid my bill today and these are my speeds….pitiful
Riiiiight…just like T-Mobile added more data without a price hike, only to find out, *gasp* there is a price hike of upwards of $15 on top of the previous price. And where does AT&T get off thinking, it actually costs $0.25 per minute to make a call? I mean, thats MORE, $0.05 more per minute than it costs for me to call overseas (within country, to another country, or to the USA) while roaming internationally! And you’re talking about domestic talk?! REALLY?! Thats a price markup of 150%, there should be a regulation against things in percentages going up that high.
So what are the chances VZW prepaid customers will soon get more data? (beyond one billing cycle)
Lmao
Little to none. Verizon knows it can get customers in by cheating their coverage maps compared to other carriers. Yeah, many years ago Verizon was in fact the best in class for coverage, while Sprint and T-Mobile weren’t even considered viable carriers for travelers and such. In the past 5ish years, AT&T made MAJOR improvements in service quality and coverage, same with T-Mobile. However people that knew and had Verizon before that know how “great” the coverage is/was, so they’ll keep telling people how great it is. On the comparisons Verizon provides, they do NOT include domestic roaming coverage on any other carrier but themselves, and they do NOT include 2g/3g/HSPA+ coverage on the other carriers, however in the comparison, they include 2g, 3g, and lte on their own map. In reality, AT&T actually has almost equal-to Verizon in data coverage (HSPA and lte). AT&T’s network also covers more Americans as a whole (with 2g and 3g, and roaming) than verizon does. Verizon still likes to show only lte coverage on the other carriers, leading people to believe that they’re on inferior networks.
They might add a half a gigabyte, but that’s all I think they’ll add if at all.
After Republic & Fi, it’s hard to think about going back to a plan where you pay the same every month whether you use 5% or 100% of it, especially at prices like $45-60.
that thing runs on sprint doesn’t it? and requires wifi for calling?
50% correct, and no. It’s Sprint and TMobile, plus who knows how many wireless access points. Calls will select the best of the three options, and handoffs are supposed to be fairly seamless.
You may be thinking of Republic wireless? Aren’t they the ones that started out as WiFi-only calling?
Republic has a variety of plans, all of them require WiFi Calling to be active, and primary – Some plans are WiFi ONLY, others have a small bucket minute allowance to get you by the months when you are not connected to WiFi as often.
Last I checked Republic doesn’t have any minute buckets. All their plans had (have?) unlimited talk/text. It’s just data that fluctuates depending on how much you use.
no I am not thinking just wondering
Fi uses Sprint when Sprint is the best connection available (ie, wifi is not available). Fi does not require wifi, but uses it when available.
Fi doesnt use Sprint, it uses T-Mobile. It’s authorized to use Sprint, but we all know their network is crap and Fi uses T-Mobile 99% of the time as it’s the better network. Hahaha
Incorrect, Fi uses both Sprint and T-Mobile. From the many screenshots people have reported using Fi Spy and other similar apps, it connects to both pretty evenly.
It also uses the roaming partners of T-Mobile and Sprint, like U.S. Cellular, Verizon, AT&T and Union Wireless.
So if you use 5GB of data, instead of paying $60 for AT&T you’d be paying $70 on Fi and limited to Sprint/T-Mobile coverage. Fi is a great idea, but you end up feeling pressured to not use data as every time you do something you look at it as costing you money. So instead of freely using 5GB of data knowing you always pay the same, that 200MB accidental streaming of music on the way to work just cost you $2.
Or if you need 5GB, you can sign up for Straight Talk and use the same AT&T network for $45/month.
This is my plan B. I left Republic because their devices cater too much to the incredibly budget minded. (Hey Republic, some people who like fancy phones want a low bill too!) I wanted an upgrade and refused to invest full price in a device over a year old so I went with a Nexus on Fi. If this service doesn’t work for me I can take the phone anywhere else and Straight Talk will probably be my next choice.
My daughter has a Nexus 6P on Straight Talk and my son has a iPhone 6 Plus. They are both happy with their $45 for 5GB/month plan. It’s so easy to buy a sim for $6 online and change phones. My son worked his way up to the 6 plus. Probably had 6 or 7 phones in the last year and they have all worked well.
Then you have to deal with their customer support, God speed
I use under a gig so instead of $60-70, I’m at $14-25. I don’t feel pressured to not use data, I just don’t need it. I could max out what I chose as my limit and not go above $30. As for accidentally streaming music costing me money, I keep mobile data turned off and only enable it when needed so this isn’t an issue. I’m not trying to convince anybody and this definitely doesn’t work for everyone, some of my own family included. It’s just difficult (for me and my circumstances) to think about going back to paying a flat rate for data.
It’s not possible to only use $14, as the base cost is $20, plus whatever data you use.
I mentioned Republic and Fi. Republic’s base bill is $10 +15/GB. Use very little data and it’s easy to get your bill down to $14 or less. I just switched to Fi and my average bill is expected to be about $25.
Fi is obscenely expensive tho. $100 for 10GB?! That’s barely cheaper than Verizon.
For people that need a lot of mobile data, yes. They probably would prefer the network coverage of Verizon anyway. I, on the other hand, use less than a gig making my bill $25ish which last I checked is a much better deal for me.
Pretty good for that $60 plan. Not a bad place to be if you don’t want a contract and want higher priority than the MVNOs
it’ outrageous that they are charging $60 for 5gb..I pay $30 for unlimited and use 20-30gb..
that’s just data price and you are on grandfathered plan.
There is no $30 unlimited plan. Irrelevant.
You’re grandfathered…irrelevant and eventually it will be killed off all together anyway.
I am locked in until Sep’ 2017, by then hopefully data prices will come down..probably 20gb for $30..
Keep dreaming.
Since when was there ever a $30 prepaid plan that gave you unlimited voice, sms, and data?
What carrier do you have? I know that plan is probably not available anymore, just curious. If you have Sprint, I kind of feel bad for you, but still.
Cricket wireless is a better deal, it’s only $45 for 5gb and if you have 5 lines it comes down to $37.
Except Cricket has higher pings, limits you to 8mbps, and you don’t get the same roaming benefits.
The ping issues are mostly fixed now. That was only a huge issue back in the end of 2014, and the beginning of 2015. They’ve made a lot of improvements lately. My ping is around 40-80 average now, while back then it used to be over 150. And 8mbps is fine for literally everything. What in the world won’t work on a PHONE without faster speeds than 8mbps? Other than 4K video?? Large app downloads that you’ll probably do over WiFi anyway and even if you don’t you’re most likely NOT going to do any over data because it’ll use a lot of your data??
You do have a point with the roaming though. That’s a super important feature to me and the only feature I miss since switching to Cricket.
T-Mobile has the best deal – $30 with Unlimited Texts, 5GB High Speed Data with Unlimited 2G-Like Speed Data after, Unlimited Music Freedom, Unlimited BingeOn, and Unlimited Ookla Speedtest usage – There is no voice minutes, they are pulled from your prepaid spending account which should be topped up, but you CAN use Google Hangouts Dialer with Google Voice and make and receive calls via data network.
That’s literally the plan for folks who don’t talk on the phone.
Which is a huge portion of smartphone users these days. Besides, you can use Google Voice with Hangouts and it doesn’t use up your minutes.
I don’t think its that many. People who don’t talk on their phone a lot don’t realize how much minutes they burn through And doing the Google voice, hangouts Dance isn’t something the average user would want to think about.
I have 450 minutes with Verizon and while there are times I use maybe 200 minutes a month, I say most months I only use 50-100 minutes per month. Pretty much all my communication is done via text, email, or social media.
been doing it for a year!!! my friends know if i have spotty covg, ill call from “backup phone”. it really is a breeze. i ask all my friends about what they pay and i cruise around looking at contracts and whatever plans all the carriers are hawking these days. and i go right back to my 30$ tmo plan. cannot be beat unless you want to be beaten over the head for your $.
Incorrect, the $30 plan has unlimited sms and 100 minutes. Everything over 100 minutes is $0.10/min.
This is the plan i went with. Dumped vzw .. just could not justify the expense anymore. Definitely not the coverage of vzw .. but change your habits just a bit and it’s a fine deal. $30 per month .. done.