As you can tell, I’m still not over losing my free HBO with my AT&T family plan. Here’s hoping that AT&T gets its act together soon and either reduces its prices or serves up more perks. AT&T family plans offer more value, but other unlimited providers can give you more bang for your buck. I would consider myself to be mildly obsessed with my phone, and I’ve used over 100 GB.Īs it stands today, AT&T just doesn’t justify the price tag for individual data plans. Take a look at my data usage for the month. For starters, about every hour of HD streaming you do on Netflix or YouTube uses up about 1 GB of your data. Okay, but how much GB am I using every month? Great question. Some less intensive users won’t find issues with deprioritization and data caps, but for the rest of us, it’s kind of annoying. You’ll have a harder time using that much data, but if this plan was truly “elite,” why does it have a data cap at all? Unlimited Elite: You won’t hit your data cap until you surpass 100 GB of data. If you use your phone often, you could easily hit 50 GB in any given month. Unlimited Extra: Once you use 50 GB of data, your data will start to slow down.
This happens to me at sporting events all the time. Translation: your data can slow down because other AT&T users are using their data at the same time. Unlimited Starter: With this plan, your data may be deprioritized during busy times. To make matters worse, AT&T unlimited plans suffer from deprioritization and data caps.