“The era of the data plan is over”, Legere said in a video.
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“We are completely destroying the whole concept of the data plan”. The first line on the One plan will cost $70 a month, the second adds $50, and then all the rest add $20 each.
Just hours after T-Mobile announced its new plan, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure took to Twitter to announce an unlimited data plan from Sprint. Adding those features to the T-Mobile One plan would cost $110 per month, and that’s just with 5GB of high-speed data. Sprint says it will offer “unlimited LTE data for most everything else”. If you want HD video, you’ll have to cough up an additional $25 under the new plan. Sprint is using the same concept to reduce the price of its new Unlimited Freedom plan. (NYSE:T) announced a move to get rid of overage fees by choosing to throttle down connection speeds once customers go over their allotted monthly data.
Also worth noting is that if you’re an existing T-Mobile subscriber, you can keep your current plan if you’d like. But four line subscribers will basically pay the same price on either T-Mobile or Sprint.
AT&T is joining Verizon in raising the prices of some of its data plans. Prospective customers only have to determine which of the competing plan can save them money.
First, the headline rate of $40 per line applies only if you’re buying four lines for a total of $160/month. Recall that Verizon charges its users on lower tier plans, whereas AT&T lowers the speed.
T-Mobile and Sprint’s plans also affect tethering. Those who want to use their phone as a hotspot can do so, but only at slow 2G speeds. The most popular Mobile Share Value tier, 15GB of data, now is priced at $100 a month, plus the access charge for each device. Those on 10GB or higher plans will also retain the ability to have free talk and text in Canada and Mexico as well as the ability to use their data in Mexico for no additional charge.
T-Mobile has officially killed the data plan.
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Still, with T-Mobile and Sprint’s moves, three of the four major US wireless carriers are again officially offering all-you-can-eat plans. That means for two people the cost is $120 a month or $60 a month per person.
