AT&T Unveils Mobile Share Plans, Expected To Hit Late Next Month

(7:37 am PDT, Jul 18th 2012)

AT&T Unveils Mobile Share Plans, Expected To Hit Late Next Month

Following in the footsteps of Verizon, AT&T is just a month away from implementing Shared Data/Mobile plans. Unveiled by AT&T today, the new Mobile Share Plans are extremely similar to Verizon’s, with a few notable differences.

As you can see from the above image, AT&T plans on charging per month for unlimited talk/text plus a set data allotment, as well as each device on the plan. Like Verizon’s plans, they begin at 1GB per month, and while Verizon appears to offer more “in between” choices such as a 2GB and 8GB plan, AT&T’s plans climb all the way to 20GB — a full 10GB higher than Verizon’s.

Both carriers charge monthly for each device on the plan, and while Verizon charges a set rate for smartphones, AT&T’s individual smartphone charges decrease as data plans increase. For example, with Verizon’s Shared Everything, customers will pay $40 per smartphone, regardless of data tier. On AT&T, customers pay $45 per smartphone if they choose the 1GB plan, $40 when on the 4GB plan, and so forth. As for basic phones, Hotspots, and tablets: prices on AT&T are the same as Verizon and do not change tier to tier.

The biggest difference between these new plans — and the most important in my opinion — is the fact that AT&T’s new Mobile Share Plans are available to customers as an option, unlike Verizon, which has phased out all other multi-device plans in favor of the new Share Everything.

Whether or not these plans will save you any money depends on your situation, but expect to see them go active in late August. For more information about AT&T’s new Mobile Share plans, hit up the source link below.

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  • Brian Boccia

    Is it just me or does it look like the only thing that’s changed is the name? I already pay $45 + a per phone fee. So now I pay $40 plus a bigger per-phone fee?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=570847642 Justin Roth

    Sucks for heavy data users.

  • Jay98723

    “Like Verizon’s plans, they begin at 1GB per month, and while Verizon appears to offer more “in between” choices such as a 2GB and 8GB plan, AT&T’s plans climb all the way to 20GB — a full 10GB higher than Verizon’s”

    Thats not true. I work for Verizon and we offer the 20GB plans also for the same price. In fact a couple of days before Verizon released the share everything, they were suppose to offer up to 30GB. However, they still do plan on offering up to 30 gigs in the very near future.

    • http://twitter.com/eric__joseph Eric Joseph

      just wanted to say thanks for forcing me on the shitty share everything plan. AND taking away my unlimited data while making me pay more…

  • Daniel Lott

    As a Verizon customer, I will point out that in-store charts are priced at up to 20GB of data. I hereby corroborate Jay98723′s statement. Please update the article.

  • popeyoni

    Outrageously expensive.

  • El_Prez

    Currently at 700 National Family with Rollover with 3 phones using the old 200 meg data plan. We confine our data mostly to WiFi, but occasionally it would be nice to be travelling and not be paranoid about WHICH device is nearing it’s data limit. So the 1-gig plan would be fine.

    If I read this right, it’ll end up being $40+$45+$45+$45=$175.

    I don’t pay that much under current plan even with fees and taxes!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tom.moccia Tom Moccia

    What is missing is where the corporate discount will be applied. Right now it’s applied to the voice portion of my bill so will it now be applied to the shared data charge or to each phones line charge. For example $90 (6GB) minus 15% = $76.50 + 3 phones at $35= $181.50 or will it be calculated on the per line charge like this: $90 (6GB) + 3 lines at $105 minus 15% of the $105=$89.25. $90 (6GB) + $89.25 (3 lines minus 15%) = $179.25. I know it’s only a few bucks. Right now I am on 700 minutes with 3 lines and data = unlimited, 300mb, 300mb respectively and I pay $185 with taxes so the only benefit it the unlimited minutes and somewhat of sharing the data. All this being said it’s not enough to make me switch to this shared data considering I never go over my minutes.

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