FMCA AT&T Plan Capped at 12MB

[Gizmo]

FMCA has finally admitted that the AT&T plan has a speed cap of 12MB and seems that It MAY have a streaming restriction also. FMCA keeps saying " You will continue to get unlimited high-speed data on your mobile hotspot when you aren’t accessing a congested tower.". If your requirements require more than 12MB like Zoom and uploading/downloading files at the same time you just have to subscribe to the plan to find out. I believe the speed limitations should be stated upfront. Even the video states that plan has a streaming restriction.

 

[Neal]

Dump their plan ASAP. Get the 100 GB AT&T Prepaid plan instead which includes 5G. I have it.

 

[sheridany]

100 GB AT&T Prepaid plan

X2.

 

[Neal]

I verified I have the $55/mo for 100 GB. AT&T may have changed this to 50 GB (still good) but ask the store if the 100 GB for 55/mo is available.

AT&T Prepaid Hotspot & Tablet Data Plans - AT&T PREPAID

Check out our new data plans for prepaid mobile hotspots and tablets. Connect to the Internet with more data now with 5G access, new flexible pricing and no credit check.

www.att.com

 

[Just George]

Sure looks like the AT&T Prepaid $55 for 100 GB is gone from their web site and it's now $50 for 50 GB. I hope they continue to honor the 100 GB plan for those of us that are currently active on that plan.

 

[Neal]

Sure looks like the AT&T Prepaid $55 for 100 GB is gone from their web site and it's now $50 for 50 GB. I hope they continue to honor the 100 GB plan for those of us that are currently active on that plan.

I logged into my account and it still shows 55mo/100 GB so I'm guessing they will and have no concerns of it being changed. Cellular companies seem to be good at allowing you to stay with what you subscribed to and it only changes for new subscribers.

 

[Gizmo]

I have the Calyx 5G with the M2000 and the grandfathered Verizon plan. We put our phones on AT&T with 40GB of hotspot data and we can directly stream as a backup. The FMCA plan is going away.

 

[Janrey]

I verified I have the $55/mo for 100 GB. AT&T may have changed this to 50 GB (still good) but ask the store if the 100 GB for 55/mo is available.

AT&T Prepaid Hotspot & Tablet Data Plans - AT&T PREPAID

Check out our new data plans for prepaid mobile hotspots and tablets. Connect to the Internet with more data now with 5G access, new flexible pricing and no credit check.

www.att.com

No longer available for $55. You get 50gb for $55 but they do have the 100 for $90.

 

[Tnedator]

FMCA has finally admitted that the AT&T plan has a speed cap of 12MB and seems that It MAY have a streaming restriction also. FMCA keeps saying " You will continue to get unlimited high-speed data on your mobile hotspot when you aren’t accessing a congested tower.". If your requirements require more than 12MB like Zoom and uploading/downloading files at the same time you just have to subscribe to the plan to find out. I believe the speed limitations should be stated upfront. Even the video states that plan has a streaming restriction.

don't need 12mb for Zoom, FWIW. I have an enterprise AT&T sim that's in an older Max BR1 as my auto failover if I lose cable internet at home. I've been on many Zooms, probably a couple dozen or more, with Europe, when my internet has failed over and most of the times I never even know, but for a phone alert I have setup to get when it falls over to the backup.

My AT&T sim is dedicated IP, unlimited bandwidth with no network management, but it's capped at 8 Mbps.

Also, I've streamed countless hours of Netflix and Vudu as well. Since there is no bandwith cap, if my Suddenlink internet goes out, or at times if it's been spotty when they had some line problems, I've switched over to the backup LTE for days or even a week one time, streaming all kinds of video and multiple hours of zooms a day for work.

So, agree, FMCA should have been up front, but for the vast majority of use cases, 12 Mbps is totally fine.

 

[CaptainGizmo]

Boy…vernacular is SO IMPORTANT when talking about this stuff!! Until this last post, I was thinking that the DATA was being capped at “12MB”, rather than the connection being “THROTTLED” at 12Mbps.

Makes a big difference in this case; I’d agree that, generally, even 4Mbps will be adequate for streaming.

I will say, however, that speed isn’t always everything. We’re noticing better use experiences with devices that may not be the “fastest”, yet still are much snappier at loading pages and such.

This topic is a moving target…tomorrow it’ll change.