Rate plans for iPhone unveiled by Apple

[Robo]

I used a Treo for 3 years before EVDO was available with the Treo 700p. It was tolerable and I actually used the internet with it all the time. EDGE is apparently somewhat faster than 1RXT or whatever it's called. If it's overall faster than the glacial Treo processor, it might still beat EVDO on some sites, and I only even get EVDO sometimes. With push email in the background, I think people will be using EDGE for quite a lot of data, and it will be ok.

[DharmaDog]

[quote chuck_k][quote (vikm)]I like how on the Apple site under "Family" plan there is a tiny little asterisk after it that states that under the shared family plan...

*Includes one line. Additional iPhone lines are $29.99 each.


It'd be a hell of a family plan with only one line, eh? I know everyone does this sort of thing when they are laying out pricing structures on things like this but it's still annoying. At least display the full price for minimum requirements for making use of a shared family plan.

Inane grumbling aside, these rates are pretty good. Not just "fair" or ok". They are actually pretty attractive considering what you get.
It's not a "one line family plan," it's a one iPhone family plan. Your other phone can be anything else, and you share your voice minutes.

Read it carefully, and understand how Cingular does business. It's still a family plan. But not everyone in the family will have an iPhone. In fact, very few families will have more than one iPhone. The other phones will be normal phones.
My wife won't let me get one though unless she also gets one. $1000 is steep for the hardware, but we're none too excited about paying an additional $50/month on our phone bill either (existing cingular customer adding iPhone data plan for $20, plus another iPhone line for $29.99)

[rgG]

[quote chuck_k][quote rgG][quote blusubaru]Unlimited data on all plans...wow. But they force you into that middle category with a cap on the night/weekend minutes in the first.
The 5000 number is for text messages not minutes. It just has a check mark under all plans for nights and weekends.
no, that's night/weekend minutes. They do that on their lowest voice plan for all of them.
That isn't how it looks to me. I read it as each one has Nights and Weekends and Rollover minutes. The check marks don't relate to the row above or the "Unlimited Data/Email" would not make sense.

[tahoedrew]

[quote chuck_k][quote (vikm)]I like how on the Apple site under "Family" plan there is a tiny little asterisk after it that states that under the shared family plan...

*Includes one line. Additional iPhone lines are $29.99 each.


It'd be a hell of a family plan with only one line, eh? I know everyone does this sort of thing when they are laying out pricing structures on things like this but it's still annoying. At least display the full price for minimum requirements for making use of a shared family plan.

Inane grumbling aside, these rates are pretty good. Not just "fair" or ok". They are actually pretty attractive considering what you get.
It's not a "one line family plan," it's a one iPhone family plan. Your other phone can be anything else, and you share your voice minutes.

Read it carefully, and understand how Cingular does business. It's still a family plan. But not everyone in the family will have an iPhone. In fact, very few families will have more than one iPhone. The other phones will be normal phones.
I'm not positive about this, but isn't there usually a $9.99 fee for additional lines? So it would be $9.99 for each additional phone and $29.99 for additional iPhones?

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[Jp!]

sure is a helluvalot more expensive than my under $6 per month I spend with T-Mobile's pay-as-you-go plan. Granted, I don't talk much and do not text nor web with it. Mine is a PHONE.

[Seacrest]

Uh, sumpn' ain't right with yer screen shot thar, Rhonda.

[dmann]

tahoedrew- I know for sure the rate is $9.99 for extra lines for the package I have (I think the rate depends on the package) but I don't know if the $29.99 would include that $9.99 or be charged on top of it.

DM

[rgG]

OK, now I am really confused. I got my screen shot from pinkoos' link at the top of the page. My screen shot is not the same as Seacrest's, so which is it? Where did Seacrest get his link? Who else sees what I see?

Here is the link from Apple where I did the screen shot that you see in my post above:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/rateplans.html

[Seacrest]

You seem to have increased the font size in your browser, which breaks some of the longer lines in the rate plan data table, breaking the rows from the first column in relation to the others. (The fact that Apple used DIVS when TABLES would have been more appropriate in this context shows that someone is taking table-less HTML layout too far to the extreme and compounds the problem.)

[Big Daddy Cool]

rgG,

are you looking at the page on yer iphone?

Seacrest's pic is right, yours is what we like to call unright.