The Dallas, Texas-based company in the score of $ 5 more plans, with an additional gigabyte of data. The carrier will now charge $ 30 per month for 3GB of data and $ 50 per month for 5 gigabytes.
Meanwhile, entry-level carrier data plan now for $ 20 per month and allow 300 megabytes to play, an increase of $ 5 and 100 megabytes per previous plan.
AT & T said it was the introduction of changes to the changing needs of the customer data needs to be. The carrier said the use of data over the network by 40 percent last year, and only minor changes in order to serve its customers better offer, the consumption data is increasing throughout the industry.
The changes will likely result in fewer customers are on their borders, allowing them to more data, without having to worry about fees for data transfer, and AT & T to help users avoid upset against higher than expected monthly bills.
Some customers are dissatisfied with this change, since the vast majority using less than 2 gigabytes of data per month and not have to pay an additional $ 5 per gigabyte, a third party. AT & T said that users who does not already signed their plan, but also new clients, new data-plan options are given to choose from.
Although many new customers do not need to one-third of gigabytes of data, they are still a better deal for the money than they did in the main competition to AT & T. Verizon charges $ 30 per month for only 2 gigabytes of data, But the carrier also has an advanced LTE network from AT & T.
Meanwhile, Sprint is the only airline to offer truly unlimited data, but many analysts suspect that the carrier probably forego this strategy in the future.
Offers data of individual carriers with positive and negative, and although the options AT & T’s new data not present customers with higher prices, they get back more data.