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Those sound like incredibly shitty plans. So, not only will there be a hard cap, but on top of the cap you will have to pay significantly more for tethering?

I hate my carrier (Rogers/Fido) but damn I am glad for them right now. I pay $30 for 6GB and no extra for tethering.

This might save me a bit of money. My wife barely goes over 150MB or so and she surely won't go over 2GB on her iPhone 3GS. I could just drop her data plan to 200MB or switch it to 2GB on demand and save some bucks. Hell, a $15 savings a month is a big flippin' deal.

Hell, I could probably even drop down to the 2GB plan myself and save another $5 a month. I think the most I ever used in a month was 1GB, and that was because I was tethering in Las Vegas because the hotel Wi-Fi during CES 2010 was absolutely horrible.

I know that a lot of people will bitch about this, but it works for me

I don't really have a problem with this, mostly because of how I use my phone. But for tethering, it looks pretty bad..and expensive. I should end up saving $5 a month this way. In fact, I may even be able to get the cheaper plan. I might not be using 200MB a month.

Kinda nasty with the tethering option. Cut the amount of data available and then charge you extra to use that data via tethering.

This is the first time I've actually LIKED what Rogers has offered in comparison to another carrier.

So even if you pay the extra money for tethering you are STILL limited to 2 GB? The extra $20/month should get me more bandwidth, too!!

So let's see all the ATT apologetics who complained about Verizon's 5 GB cap chime in. 2 GB is crap, especially if you are downloading apps or media. And everyone who said the iPad data plan pricing was evidence of Apple sticking with ATT as the sole provider (due to it's low pricing), how long did that last?

Now more than ever we need another carrier in the US to get the iPhone and iPad to provide some competition (and relieve the strain on ATTs network).

"For customers who exceed the cap, an extra 1GB in the DataPro plan costs $10, and an extra 200MB in the DataPlus plan runs $15."

Are you freakin' kidding me! That's borderline blackmail to get you to go for the more expensive plan. Verizon's $60/month mifi card is looking pretty attractive right now. Too bad you can't get an iPhone without a data plan. Maybe pair the mifi with a touch and dump ATT altogether.

If there is a hard-and-fast cap on how much data that a client can use, then why would they care what device uses it? This is an absurd idea that shows how disinterested at&t is in the happiness of it's clients.

This is analogous to the water company saying that each household could use 5,000 gallons a month, but you have to pay extra if you want to use that water to wash dishes with.

At&t is charging a surcharge for something that not only lacks a nexus to their cost basis, but is also, quite frankly, squarely within the realm of HOW customers use the service, and not WHAT service at&t is providing to them.

I love Apple, but when you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas, and I think at&t is a pretty sorry bed-fellow for the iPhone.

Yeah, I like this move. I am a heavy data user, and I am hard pressed to reach over a gig of usage in a given month. The only thing I don't get is the tethering...why an extra $20 if you have the same data cap/overage rates? The only thing I can think of is that it makes a laptop card more appealing to consumers, but that is not really a consumer benefit.

For heavy users this plan won't be good, but for light users like my wife, or even people like myself who use less then 500 mb a month this won't be too bad. I expect most wireless and even some cable go this way.

The name of this article should really be changed to:

AT&T nearly doubles the cost of 5 GB of data for users, from $30 per month to $55 per month