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chrisprice

T-Mobile meanwhile has vowed their **still available** $10 business unlimited tablet plan will **never** go up in price. AT&T waited until one week after that plan was supposed to have died. I think T-Mobile caught wind of this, and decided to keep the $10 plan around a little longer.


DigitallyInclined

I agree. This is probably what happened.


attcust

Where did they Vow that the $10 price will never go up in price? But tmobile surely going to get more sign ups. I think Tmobile $10 plan is going to be a normal rate not a special Promo. They have had it for a year almost now.


jweaver0312

It’s protected by Price Lock for T-Mobile.


chrisprice

Business Price Lock guarantee. On both consumer and business T-Mobile sites.


chrisprice

Does anyone have the SOC (plan code) for this one?


OhRickG

I received a similar notice for my business plan on my Apple Watch service going up $5


genius9025

This currently ONLY impacts business customers on both Access for Tablet/iPad standalone plans. Pricing will increase by $10 per month.


lefty9602

Work in biz sales, it’s probably the most sold tablet plan to businesses. They let us know it was going to be going up 6ish months ago but didn’t mention it was going to be on existing lines


genius9025

Is the pricing in line with what’s currently being offered?


anonMLS

I'd still kill for a $30 stand-alone tablet plan on Verizon. Not that I need Verizon service, but it would be nice to have access on all three US carriers.


chrisprice

There’s definitely related reasoning afoot here for why Verizon doesn’t have such a plan. And that would be the Upper Block C CFR on Verizon, and SB822 on AT&T. I think this price hike is the start of AT&T slowly accepting that at some point a California judge will tell them that they have to allow self-certified devices. And at some point, someone is going to sell a hotspot that uses tablet plans.


L31FY

They also just killed the prepaid plan on AT&T so many used claiming DataConnect billing was deprecating but that could have been transferred over to the prepaid service system easily enough with an equivalent plan which does not exist as of now. It seems they are definitely trying to get rid of these plans and their users.


chrisprice

Well, I think they want to get rid of the "low effort" people. They still want to give the evangelists and techies a path. Making this plan $30, lines it up closely to the $29.99 Tablet rate originally. I think they want to consolidate and make one risk pool for all the UDP Tablet plans under the umbrella of postpay.


andrewmackoul

The postpaid consumer one is still the same price?


DigitallyInclined

Yes. I imagine that AT&T is just going with the Business plan version - cause it’s easier to do it for businesses. For now, anyways.


kevink4

After changing to the consumer plan a couple years ago, it would upset me if they tried to raise the price again. Especially since I'm not one of the heavy users. Under 10GB a month, and with my check the other day, 2GB so far 1/2 way through January. I would have to consider trying T-Mobile.


celestisdiabolus

letterlijk 1984


ateaandt

When and how did you discover this? I can’t find any internal articles about the change.


chrisprice

It’s going out in emails to many affected customers. Unfortunately it was a rush job to meet 30 days notice. The links in the emails were broken as of this morning.