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Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: AT&T users can keep $30
unlimited data when upgrading phones... unless they want tethering via
Engadget by Chris Ziegler on 6/2/10
There's naturally been a ton of feedback in the past few hours on
AT&T's new data pricing strategy, and the company has been responding
to comments all morning over on its Facebook page; one of the key
tidbits that's come out of the discussion so far is that folks on the
current $30 smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan when
upgrading hardware. Translation: yes, you'll be able to get a new
iPhone without switching to the $25 / 2GB DataPro plan if you so
choose. What you won't be able to do, though, is keep the $30 plan and
add on the $20 tethering option -- tethering specifically requires
DataPro, so your hopes and dreams of a soft 5GB cap are quashed (unless
you want to pay $30 for 3GB of overage, of course).

On a related note, we've been tipped that some folks' iPad orders from
Apple have been pushed back to June 7 -- an interesting coincidence,
considering that's when DataPlus and DataPro go live. If true, it's
likely so that Apple can pre-install new orders with updated software
for managing the new plans, but it's also a preemptive strike against a
horde of people trying to grandfather into the $30 plan over the next
few days.

[Thanks, John and Aaron]
AT&T users can keep $30 unlimited data when upgrading phones... unless
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