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AT&T updates international iPhone plan

updated 11:45 am EDT, Fri November 2, 2007

AT&T iPhone plan update


Changes have been made to the iPhone's international data schemes, AT&T has announced. A new Data Global Plan now allows 50MB in transfers per month, covering e-mail, web browsing and any other Internet traffic, in 29 countries including Canada, China, Mexico and various other states across Asia and Europe. Previously, users were limited to 20MB. The new international plan costs $60 per month on top of domestic service, with an additional $0.005 being charged for every extra kilobyte in covered countries. Outside of these regions, the 50MB cap is invalid and users are simply charged $0.01 or more per kilobyte used. Under the 20MB plan, this rate goes up to $0.0195/kb. The new plan should take effect immediately.


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  1. TheSnarkmeister

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    11/02, 01:56pm | report spam | Reply |

    Hmmm...

    Its easy to see why AT&T doesn't want these phones unlocked. They are making a mint. And Apple isn't hurting either, since they are getting kickbacks for their efforts in enforcing the locking mechanism. Why do we need a Justice Department at all, when they won't act against such a blatant conspiracy to evade the MDCA? Couldn't we just get rid of Justice and return the savings to the taxpayers? Maybe then, more of us could afford iPhones.

  1. AlenShapiro

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    11/02, 02:02pm | report spam | Reply |

    Why do they bother...

    Sorry but I don't see the significance of this change. Quoted from the AT&T site:

    "Consider that just 20 minutes of iTunes® radio takes 20MB of data."

    Cost of 20 minute data per month plan $25.00 Cost of 50 minute data per month plan $60.00

    So, I can *in one month* listen to an extra 30 minutes of iTunes® radio (whatever that is) and it will only cost me $35. Perhaps I'm being ungracious here but where is the "unlimited" data plan we really need. 50 Mbytes a month is less than 2Mbytes a day which as far as I'm concerned is *nothing*. The SPAM email I receive would use that up just by itself - not to mention a few unsolicited) pictures emailed to me by well meaning relatives.

    The plan is still a recipe for disaster when the phone is used outside the USA and will merely ensure that the unlocking industry will have plenty of business.

    Am I missing something here?

  1. testudo

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    11/02, 02:22pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: why do they bother

    I think it has something to do with the +50MB cost, not the first 50MB cost.

    As for spam email, that's one of the biggest drawbacks of .Mac, that Apple has no spam filters on the server, so everything has to download so you can find one email. Maybe they could treat email like their VVM, and only download headers until you actually want to view the mail?

  1. dliup

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    11/02, 03:16pm | report spam | Reply |

    .Mac has spam control

    Yes there is spam protection on .mac. Pretty aggressive ones too.

  1. chadpengar

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    11/02, 03:42pm | report spam | Reply |

    herding cats

    Remember, AT&T has to make deals with wireless companies (sometimes more than one) in each country. AT&T wants its cut, as does the foreign wireless company. A lot of these companies paid billions of dollars (equivalent for you anal retentives) for 3G spectrum etc and are desperately looking to raise money to pay that back to themselves and look at data services as a way to do that. It will take a while for them to figure this stuff out and realize that data services can be a cash cow if they make it cheap enough to use in the first place.

    This is not only AT&T greed. It is businesses who made bad decisions on paying for 3G spectrum trying to get their money back.

  1. howl

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    11/02, 06:10pm | report spam | Reply |

    Month to Month?

    What I wonder is whether I can add this for just a month. I travel internationally a couple times a year and this would be useful, but not if I need to add this to my regular contract.

  1. testudo

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    11/02, 06:11pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: .mac has spam control

    Yes there is spam protection on .mac. Pretty aggressive ones too.

    Which is why it is the account I get most of my spam on?

    If it does have spam protection, it can't be very agressive because, unlike every other online mail provider, they give you no way of knowing they've blocked an email.

    And I've read of many people who just forward their .mac email over to gmail so that gmail's spam filters get rid of most of it.

  1. notehead

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    11/02, 11:20pm | report spam | Reply |

    yeah, but AT&T sucks!

    My wife and I decided to try out AT&T's wireless service before plunking down the cash for an iPhone. We got some of the nicer phones that, after rebates, were free. We couldn't be less impressed. Their customer service has been ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. Our names are misspelled on caller ID, the billing has been wrong from day 1, they've "accidentally" foisted undesired extra services on us, and you have to wait for ages to get a service rep on the phone -- and the person may or may not speak English well and/or be civil. Plus, the calls are almost always unclear, full of break-up and extremely poor audio quality.

    For the love of Apple, will somebody please tell me that their experience with AT&T has been wonderful, in total contrast to mine? As awesome as the iPhone is, there is NO WAY I could possibly give one more hard-earned dollar to AT&T after the abyssmal quality and incompetence we've experienced.

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