AT&T launches cheap prepaid unlimited plan with slow #data speeds
March 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
AT&T is adding an unlimited data option to its prepaid GoPhone plans — but the new option comes with some serious constraints.
The plan costs $60 per month and does technically include unlimited data. But AT&T won’t let subscribers get fast speeds, capping the plan at 3Mbps. For context, the metrics firm OpenSignal says that AT&T’s average LTE speed is 7.93Mbps, so this plan cuts speeds by more than half.
Not only will subscribers have to put up with slower data during typical usage, but they’ll see even slower speeds if they go beyond 22GB of data in a single month. That’s the same thing AT&T does on its other unlimited plans, but it feels even more egregious here since customers have to deal with a bad speed cap in the first place.
