Cheap $20 a month Stand Alone Unlimited Rural Internet through AT&T Wireless

[coldsteelva]

I just received mine last week, I don't have the first bill yet, but I receive 12% off through my employer so mine will still hover around $20 after the fees. We also have an AT&T Wireless Home Phone (sim card in a base station) for the cordless phones since we have a child at home and having a working phone with a dial tone is important.

There is also a Tracfone (on AT&T) with minutes sitting on the shelf charged for emergency use.

 

[TractorGuy]

I expect this whole deal to disappear since so many are probably using the device not as intended. The out of stock status may indicate that has already happened. IF it stays available and is when my Centurylink deal is close to running out again I might jump on board and give it a try but I think my location will kill the deal anyway.

 

[zimy]

I expect this whole deal to disappear since so many are probably using the device not as intended. The out of stock status may indicate that has already happened. IF it stays available and is when my Centurylink deal is close to running out again I might jump on board and give it a try but I think my location will kill the deal anyway.

Apparently that is what everyone said last year, but all at&t did was lower the price from $40 a month to $20.

 

[sodamo]

I think the abusers will be a small number and easily identified and dealt with. For the rest of us, a great deal.

 

[BigBlue1]

I think the abusers will be a small number and easily identified and dealt with. For the rest of us, a great deal.

What constitutes an "abuser" of unlimited data wireless Internet service? There is every valid reason to see this Mobley with a use case that includes someone with an RV streaming Netflix at their campground all summer long. How does that differ from someone who brings the device into their home (or uses it from their car in the garage) connected to their FireStick/Netflix in the living room? Sure, I suppose the upper 1 percentile that streams non-stop or does BitTorrent and burns up a terabyte a month might be an abuser, but are those extremists the ones you're referring to? Or just anyone who uses it in the house?

Rob

 

[newbury]

What constitutes an "abuser" of unlimited data wireless Internet service? There is every valid reason to see this Mobley with a use case that includes someone with an RV streaming Netflix at their campground all summer long. How does that differ from someone who brings the device into their home (or uses it from their car in the garage) connected to their FireStick/Netflix in the living room? Sure, I suppose the upper 1 percentile that streams non-stop or does BitTorrent and burns up a terabyte a month might be an abuser, but are those extremists the ones you're referring to? Or just anyone who uses it in the house?

Rob

It's NOT UNLIMITED. I am paying for 22GB and change, the change is up to the good graces of AT&T.

 

[zimy]

It's NOT UNLIMITED. I am paying for 22GB and change, the change is up to the good graces of AT&T.

It is unlimited, just after 22 GB you have deprioritized data, doesn't mean you get cut off, it just could be slower if tower is overloaded as you dropped down in priority. Much of my family uses straight talk and cricket phones, and if you read they are always 100% of the time depriortized on the AT&T network yet my family doesn't seem to have any issues with them, I suppose if a tower is overloaded in an emergency or something AT&T will make sure their customers get first dibs on tower traffic but for 99% of the time the cheaper deprioritized services work well.

 

[newbury]

It is unlimited, just after 22 GB you have deprioritized data, doesn't mean you get cut off, it just could be slower if tower is overloaded as you dropped down in priority. Much of my family uses straight talk and cricket phones, and if you read they are always 100% of the time depriortized on the AT&T network yet my family doesn't seem to have any issues with them, I suppose if a tower is overloaded in an emergency or something AT&T will make sure their customers get first dibs on tower traffic but for 99% of the time the cheaper deprioritized services work well.

Sorry, but if they drop my speeds down to a trickle after 22GB and there are only so many hours in a month then I'm greatly more limited than if I was not "deprioritized".

 

[sodamo]

What constitutes an "abuser" of unlimited data wireless Internet service? There is every valid reason to see this Mobley with a use case that includes someone with an RV streaming Netflix at their campground all summer long. How does that differ from someone who brings the device into their home (or uses it from their car in the garage) connected to their FireStick/Netflix in the living room? Sure, I suppose the upper 1 percentile that streams non-stop or does BitTorrent and burns up a terabyte a month might be an abuser, but are those extremists the ones you're referring to? Or just anyone who uses it in the house?

Rob

"Sure, I suppose the upper 1 percentile that streams non-stop or does BitTorrent and burns up a terabyte a month might be an abuser, but are those extremists the ones you're referring to?"

Yea, pretty much the same group that gave unlimited a bad rap back in the early unlimited iPhone days.

And I agree that your other scenario is legit, not abusive.

 

[sodamo]

It is unlimited, just after 22 GB you have deprioritized data, doesn't mean you get cut off, it just could be slower if tower is overloaded as you dropped down in priority. Much of my family uses straight talk and cricket phones, and if you read they are always 100% of the time depriortized on the AT&T network yet my family doesn't seem to have any issues with them, I suppose if a tower is overloaded in an emergency or something AT&T will make sure their customers get first dibs on tower traffic but for 99% of the time the cheaper deprioritized services work well.

I don't see that as any worse than my current provider. If a couple of heavy streamer are on before me my speed suffers greatly. Don't know about now but thought it was pretty common known in the early days of cable that more users equaled slower speed. T
I think the deprioritization will be quite individual by location with city folk impacted more than less populated rural. Seems much better to me than the old throttling method.