Originally Posted by
Steve M
Let's assume that even a cheap prepaid option would be at least $10. A USB dongle rental would probably be more. You're willing to get your iPhone unlocked, and/or carry a laptop for two weeks in order to save $50?
Obviously, it's your decision to make, and I'm not questioning your judgment or situation if $50 really is a deal-breaker or that otherwise really is the best situation for you. I mention this just because I've seen a lot of people go to great personal inconvenience and disrupt their travel a lot just to avoid paying a $50 or $100 fee that they think is too high, and not considering how this affects the rest of their trip and all the money that is being paid for it.
It's more than $50 -- unlimited usage for ~$10 vs. 50MB for $60 (at the time I posted). At the time, data overage was $5/MB.
I will have a laptop with me anyway so carrying a laptop for 2 weeks isn't something I'm not doing already.
With the new rates, I will probably just have to go with the 125MB for $50. I'm not going to be having heavy phone usage during this trip, just need access to manual e-mail fetch (for an email account where about 98% of emails will be important to me).
I'm glad they reduced the rates per MB on these new plans but I still think they can do better. One great thing is they severely reduced the overage rate - $10 for 10MB is way better than $5 for 1MB.
Can I access the MYAT&T app from abroad? Just in case I need to upgrade to the 250MB plan while there ...