AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader writes: AT&T customers trying to hold on to their old unlimited-data plans will have to pay a little more starting in February. AT&T's legacy plans for unlimited data will soon be $35 a month, instead of the current $30, on top of normal monthly bill costs. The Verge reports: "This is the first price hike AT&T has levied on grandfathered unlimited customers in seven years; the plan in question was discontinued in 2010 and as such is no longer offered to new customers. The $35 unlimited data feature is in addition to the costs associated with your voice and texting plan(s)."

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ATT pretty much made this plan useless

[Anonymous Coward]

6 or so years ago when they disabled tethering or wifi on this service. I know I used to have it until 2 years ago.

Since then I ditched all plans and just do pay as you go. $60 bucks a month and I don't pay a dime extra....like it should be. I seemed to remember no matter what carrier I used to use they always ended up jacking the price up dollar by dollar every few months...until somehow you're $80 plan somehow morphs into a $130....for one line. Screw these assholes and their contracts.

It's because networking equipment costs are rising

[QuietLagoon]

We all know that the cost of networking equipment is rising and the performance of said equipment is dropping. So it is getting much more expensive to provide the same amount of data. /sarcasm