AT&T Lowers Data Access To Just $500/GB

GMGruman writes "No doubt in a move to demonstrate how having fewer carriers (once it buys T-Mobile) will be good for US cellular customers, AT&T has announced lower data pricing for customers not on contract: On a per-gigabyte basis, GoPhone users will only pay $500 rather than the previous $5,000. Such a deal. The pricing is indeed lower, but even the best option for such users is five times more than regular customers pay. And given that pay-as-you-go pricing is what the poor and people living paycheck to paycheck use, the result is those who can afford the least still pay by far the most."

Comments

That's one way of putting it...

[pushing-robot]

"those who can afford the least still pay by far the most."

could perhaps more accurately be written:

"those who typically use the least get charged the most per unit."

or shortened to:

"you save money if you buy in bulk."

Of course, I'm not defending the outrageous rates—just the melodramatic language.

Re:for pete's sake

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.

Controlling a piece of a the public airways isn't a corporate right. Don't want to charge reasonable rates for data plans? Don't. Live without that government granted monopoly on public property. All the other corporations do it every day.