Leaked AT&T Papers Reveal Charging Details for LTE Data Plans

[Maura]

While it’s still not certain exactly what those AT&T documents that were leaked by hackers Lulzsec the other day reveal about whether or not AT&T is testing LTE iPads, what would appear to be certain, going by this story on Cult of Mac, is that AT&T will be charging whopping amounts of money for LTE when it does finally arrive on the iPhone and iPad. According to the report, the documents reveal everything about AT&T’s proposed data plans for its LTE network, which will apparently start at $30 per month and peak at $80, with a mid-range $60 plan in between.

The $30-per-month plan will give you 5GB of data, with 7.0Mbps download and 3.0Mbps upload speeds. If you exceed your data limit, your speed will be cut to 3.0Mbps for downloads and 1.0Mbps for uploads. Should you exceed your limit by 2GB, you’ll be cut off. And you will be charged $0.05 per meg for exceeding your limit. Yikes!

The $80-per-month plan will give you 20GB of data, with 12.0Mbps download and 7.5Mbps upload speeds. If you exceed your data limit, your speed will be cut to 7.0Mbps for downloads and 3.0Mbps for uploads. The overage charge is also $0.05 per meg.

Cult of Mac points out that these are only proposed data plans for LTE usage, but they would appear to indicate that AT&T is looking to hit customers hard for going over their limits.

Source: This Is What AT&T Wants To Charge You Every Month For Your LTE iPhone | Cult of Mac

 

[Qdiddy]

Thanks for this informative post. I think we are headed for an eventual collision course in the coming years of data limits/price and companies that provide data such as Netflix, apple hulu, etc. Phone companies are not going to be able to charge huge fees for low data limits as these streaming sites/companies pump out more high quality, data demanding content.

Either the phone companies are going to lose business or the sites are, unless they find a way to compress that data drink dispose phase and it uncompressed once transferred to the phone. I see this being simple eventually for things such as apps, software updates, but not so much for live streaming.

In the end we can complain all day but millions continue to pay the fees (myself included) so companies keep charging them.

Everyone tore ATT apart when they revamped data plans, ended unlimited but verizon and others followed suit because it worked.

 

[iJeff]

Those fee's are crazy,im soooooo glad im with Verizon. If it gets any higher than the $30.00 plan i will be forced to start useing a reg phone and get rid of the data package all together.