AT&T's GoPhone plans get new options, complexity
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Jun 5th 2007 4:26PM
posted Jun 5th 2007 4:26PM
We always thought one of the big draws of prepaid plans was simplicity, but AT&T's looking to prove us wrong with a series of new add-ons available with its GoPhone service. Customers can now tack on 3,000 off-peak minutes for $20, messaging plans ranging from 200 messages for $5 up to 3,000 for $20, and a pair of data plans: 1MB for $1 and 5MB for $5. With us so far? Good, but here's where it gets kinda weird: the 3,000 off-peak minute package can only be added for GoPhone customers paying the optional $1 / day fee to lower their per-minute talk rates from 25 cents to 10 cents. AT&T's billing the data as the only prepaid data packages among major competitors, so we figure that's good news for the prepaid world -- we think, anyway, once we make sense of it all.
Though its not really the same thing as a data plan, a t-mobile prepaid user with a sidekick and do unlimited sidekick data usage for $1day plus the cost of the phone minutes for the regular stuff, like making phone calls.
Virgin Mobile has:
- $1 for 500KB of data for 24 hours (worse)
- $5 for 5MB of data for 1 month (equal)
Is this an iPhone post in disguise? But seriously, AT&T "refreshed" the GoPhone plan SOLELY for the pending availability of the pre-pay iPhone...
...what could be more of a contrast than an ultra ghetto GoPhone SIM in a $600.00 iPhone?
Hey Todd there is a world bigger than your wireless router's range. There are people that travel the world and their phone plan does not work everywhere. I am assuming you wouldnt know about that since you must have the top tier phone plan and it would be real GHETTO if your phone didn't work outside of your carrier's coverage area.