Making Sense of AT&T's Hiked Prices for Legacy Phone Plans
Key takeaways
- Long-term AT&T wireless phone plan customers are being rewarded for their loyalty...with a price increase.
- If your account with a "retired" plan has a single line, the price went up $10.
- Perhaps to offset the sting, affected plans get an extra 20GB of high-speed hotspot data each month.
Long-term AT&T wireless phone plan customers are being rewarded for their loyalty...with a price increase. As the carrier shifts its focus to newer "2.0" plans, it added mandatory monthly surcharges on legacy plans. And it's not entirely clear who gets charged what.
On a support page that went live when it announced its revamped "2.0" unlimited phone plans, the carrier revealed that the prices of its "retired" unlimited wireless plans -- the ones customers who haven't upgraded are still using -- would go up by as much as $20 starting in April.
AT&T implemented two price changes. If your account with a "retired" plan has a single line, the price went up $10. If you have two or more lines on an account, the price increase was capped at $20 for the account.