end of cheap prepaid data?

There used to be a $5 for 10MB data plan for the $0.1/min prepaid users. The
plan is now $5 for 50MB but requires a minimum of $25/month prepaid plan.

Is there a better deal for prepaid users who use very little voice (less
than 20 minute per month) and very little data (less than 20MB)?

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On 5/4/2012 10:50 AM, bob wrote:
> There used to be a $5 for 10MB data plan for the $0.1/min prepaid users.
> The plan is now $5 for 50MB but requires a minimum of $25/month prepaid
> plan.

Yes, AT&T wrecked the GoPhone plans for data users. Apparently too many
AT&T contract customers were realizing that they were paying for far
more voice, texting, and data than they needed.

> Is there a better deal for prepaid users who use very little voice (less
> than 20 minute per month) and very little data (less than 20MB)?

Not on any GSM network.

The cheapest GSM service with data is probably RedPocket. $30 buys you
250 Minutes, unlimited text, 10MMS messages, and 10MB of data. No
roaming off of AT&T's native network.

On Pageplus you get 250 Minutes, 250 Texts, & 10 MB Data, for $12 per
month. Extra data is 20¢/MB so to bring it up to 20MB would add $2 more.
You would need a Verizon compatible smart phone to use Pageplus.
<http://www.pagepluscellular.com/Plans/12%20Plan.aspx>

My family currently has four Android phones on Pageplus.

On 5/4/2012 2:41 PM, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article<[email protected]>,
> SMS<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The cheapest GSM service with data is probably RedPocket. $30 buys you
>> 250 Minutes, unlimited text, 10MMS messages, and 10MB of data. No
>> roaming off of AT&T's native network.
>
> T-Mo, $30 gets you unlimited web, unlimited text, and 100min of voice.

That is a good deal. Standard caveats about T-Mobile apply.

In article <[email protected]>, Anthony R.
Gold <[email protected]> wrote:

> > There used to be a $5 for 10MB data plan for the $0.1/min prepaid users.The
> > plan is now $5 for 50MB but requires a minimum of $25/month prepaid plan.
>
> 10MB? That could be enough for a few dozen emails but with zero web or media.

actually quite a bit more than that. 10 meg is plenty for casual use.

On 5/4/2012 10:48 PM, Todd Allcock wrote:

> Less so on prepaid. Unlike AT&T prepaid and most off their MVNOs, T-Mo
> prepaid includes roaming. Not quite as much as on their contract service,
> but pretty darn close. So while AT&T's contract coverage is bigger than T-
> Mo's, T-Mo prepaid has better coverage than AT&T prepaid.

Hopefully, AT&T follows through with the increased roaming deal which
was part of the penalty for the failure of the acquisition. Not clear if
that includes data though, I expect that it doesn't.

On 5/4/2012 12:35 PM, Anthony R. Gold wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2012 10:50:39 -0700, "bob"<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> There used to be a $5 for 10MB data plan for the $0.1/min prepaid users. The
>> plan is now $5 for 50MB but requires a minimum of $25/month prepaid plan.
>
> 10MB? That could be enough for a few dozen emails but with zero web or media.

Very little media for sure (one hour of Pandora uses 30MB). No
navigation with downloaded maps. But a pretty large number of e-mails
and a moderate amount of web access. You don't want to be e-mailing
photos and videos of course, you wait for Wi-Fi access to do data
intensive tasks.

I'm on the Pageplus "The 12" plan, $12/month for 250 minutes, 250 texts,
and 10MB of data. I can't use up all the data each month, so I'll likely
go back to pay as you go now.