AT&T Prepares for Tablet Boom, Offers Postpaid

[Marcus Yam]

Handy if you don't like topping up every month.

AT&T Prepares for Tablet Boom, Offers Postpaid : Read more

 

[hellwig]

The benefit is clear, post paid customers who go over their allotment get extra data for cheaper. 4GB for $50 vs. 4GB for $45. Of course, on other carriers, you get a 5GB or 10GB soft-limit for only $30, should you choose to download that much data.

 

[caeden]

so... if I go over my allotted time I have the 'option' to pay $10 per GB, or I can pay $25 per 2GB? Something seems a bit wrong with this pricing.

 

[Guest]

$25 for Clears Unlimited 4G iSpot

 

[Guest]

There's no mention of whether existing data-plan customers have the option of converting to postpaid, and I've found nothing on the AT&T website, nor through the iPad Cellular Data settings module.

 

[megamanx00]

With postpaid it's easier to slap them with overhead charges than prepaid.

 

[gtvr]

I wish someone on Tom's would post & tell me where I can get designer handbags and shoes. That information just seems to be constantly missing.

 

[dark_lord69]

$14.99 for 250 MB - LOL!!! WOW!!!
That much for what amounts to 33% of one CD worth of data. Uncompress music on an audio CD would like like 3 or 4 songs before you ran out of data.
I likely consume more than that PER DAY watching netflix.
I've downloaded a single file that was 32 times bigger than that!!!
Price should be...
$20.00 for unlimited data and a fee for going over 20GB in a single day.
The problem is that these executives that create this pricing by just looking at how much data is in an MP3 and how much is in the average webpage. Both of which don't take much data at all... oh, and because they're greedy.

 

[cirdecus]

my question is how they determine what a "tablet" device is. Does it have to be on they sell? Can it be any tablet with a particular 3G card and if so, how does ATT verify that its a tablet and not a laptop?

 

[getreal]

You mean "iPad boom", right? Android tablets are really irrelevant; nobody cares about them, and nobody will buy them.

 

[Nakal]

Just like no one bought Android Phones right?