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New AT&T iPhone International Data Plans Ream You Slightly Less Hard
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 1:30 AM on August 27, 2008
Your current cheap options for international data from AT&T are 20MB for US$24.99 or 50 MB for US$59.99--ream city, though without them there's no lube at all, as Blam found out when he came back from Brazil, where AT&T's int'l roaming discounts don't apply. AT&T now has two iPhone specific plans: 100MB for US$120, and 200MB for US$200, a savings of $0 and US$40, respectively. Still, ouch. [AT&T]
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digitalhen
Posted 1:57 AM 27/8/08
tell you what, if i could just unlock the damn thing, i'd pop in a Three SIM card in the UK, and pay 15 GBP for 3Gb internets.....
digitalhen
s017jrs
Posted 2:04 AM 27/8/08
wow. a buck a meg?! Check out the data on text msgs some time. I did 100mb in SMS last month alone.
I live right across the river from Canada. I swap to CDN towers from time to time. Thankfully data roaming can be turned off.
s017jrs
General Halfshaftery
Posted 2:03 AM 27/8/08
Okay just who started this whole "up the ass", "no-lube" "reaming" crap when referring to companies ripping off customers? It's offically PLAYED out.
General Halfshaftery
MadColombian
Posted 1:58 AM 27/8/08
this is why we need an unlock even if we are on ATT.
THAT IS RIDICULOUS!
MadColombian
s017jrs
Posted 2:40 AM 27/8/08
^^ It's just as funny as the yakkov smirnov jokes.
s017jrs
myneid
Posted 2:22 AM 27/8/08
in the title i only read
" New AT&T iPhone International Data Plans Ream You "
and just thought it was the left over yakkov smirnov joke left over from yesterday
myneid
BEERxTaco
Posted 3:12 AM 27/8/08
It's too bad I had to find out the hard way that there is no international texting included with your text messaging add-on package. Costs me .25/message to text a buddy in Canada. Unfortunately I sent about 100 of them... :(
BEERxTaco
xmlguy
Posted 3:13 AM 27/8/08
Pwnage tool + BootNeuter = Unlock ... FTW!
xmlguy
Nathan Drake
Posted 3:46 AM 27/8/08
I love how you guys even translated the brand name "Apple" into Dutch :P
Just FYI, round here we don't call it Appel but just Apple ;) Just like everybody else.
Nathan Drake
jkbuster
Posted 4:43 AM 27/8/08
Do the new rates require year/2 year commitments?? I go to Canada for a couple weeks every year and it would be nice to have something other than a lack of data transfer. I already looked at unlocking but it is just as expensive when you take into account the fees on Rogers.
JKB
jkbuster
rlreif
Posted 4:33 AM 27/8/08
@BEERxTaco:
jailbreak your iphone and put bite sms on it... then you can choose on the fly to send messages through att or through the net for about 10 cents per message... when you text people in the states use carrier option, when you text someone internationally or in canada do it through bite... works great
rlreif
D__H
Posted 10:27 AM 27/8/08
Get one of my favorite apps, TruPhone, and pay 1.5 cents per minute.
D__H
yesandy
Posted 7:58 AM 27/8/08
On a recent trip to Australia (iPhone plan from New Zealand) I was sent this polite text: "mobile data is available on Optus. To enjoy these services remain on this network. Charges of NZ$30/MB apply & will be billed 2 yr NZ account".
maybe they're just trying to keep the ratio of local plan : roaming the same worldwide... ($80/month gets me 250mb of data in NZ)
yesandy