10 things you should know about AT&T's new smartphone data plans

When they addopeted that data plan....I looked to drop att. Thankfully I found an unlimited plan and att can kiss this former att consumer goodbye.

AT&T now offers a 4GB data plan for tethering but it's expensive (about $15 more than the 2GB plan) and while the old customer's who had unlimited can keep their former data plan, if they are deemed by AT&T to be in the top 5% of users they reduce your data transfer speed to a point where anything other than making calls is pointless. Slow internet access, skippy streaming music and movies, etc.. Before I used to stream from time to time and never used very much data but now I tend to stream movies and music more and I can tell you first hand 4GB isn't enough for someone who really uses all the functions your phone provides. If you have a IPad and watch movies a lot on it you will most definetly go over the 4GB a month limit, where AT&T can then charge you $10 for every GIG over 4GB you go. It's BS and that paired with their crappy service areas (can barely make calls in my house) makes my pissed that I got my IPhone 4 thru them and not Sprint (who has actual unlimited plans but crappy dated cell technology) All they are trying to do with their capping is trying to piss the remaining "unlimited" customers off enough to change their plans too and get raped by data charges. This will be the last time I renew my contract thru AT&T.

Not news. This article is over two years old. Didn't AT&T make some adjustments to its plans somewhat recently that raise the data limits?

Wilcox is talking about Apple's "upcoming" iOS 4. iOS 5 shipped four months ago.