iPhone Mixed Family Plan Pricing Revealed
Posted by junger | July 1st, 2008
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Got a first-gen iPhone you want to mix with a new, 3G unit in an AT&T family plan?
Here's how it's going to be priced, according to an AT&T CSR I spoke to today (this is assuming you go with the lowest, 450/700 minute plan):
- The phones share a voice plan ($69.99 for 2 units)
- The 3G model pays a monthly $30 data fee
- The EDGE model pays its normal $20 data fee
- The EDGE model still gets its 200 text messages built in
- The 3G model can add text messages at the indidividual rate ($5/month for 200, $15 for 1500, $20 for unlimited)
Total that up — for a 2 person family with one 3G iPhone and one EDGE iPhone, both at the lowest plan:
$69.99 (voice)
$30 (3G data)
$20 (2G data)
$5 (200 text messages for 3G)
=
$124.99
Presumably, you will pay the data rate for each additional iPhone added and $9.99 more for voice, so another EDGE phone would be $29.99 more and another 3G phone would be $39.99 more.
Compare that to the 2 line, 3G-only FamilyTalk plan.
At first, it seems reasonable — but consider that two individual plans would cost you only $10 more and you'd get 200 more voice minutes.
When I spoke to the CSR today, she had to go to a higher-up to find out this info — so hopefully AT&T gets their act together and distributes it to store reps soon.
Now that Debbie has an iPhone, this is most likely the route we're going (especially since she gets to keep her text messages).
