AT&T today announced that customers can enjoy unlimited mobile calling to any mobile number in America. Unlimited Mobile to Any Mobile is available to AT&T customers with an unlimited messaging plan and a qualifying voice plan.*
Beginning Thursday, Mobile to Any Mobile will be available to new and existing AT&T customers with a qualifying voice plan who subscribe to unlimited messaging plans. Existing customers with an unlimited messaging plan can activate Mobile to Any Mobile by visiting www.att.com/anymobile. The URL will be available beginning Thursday.
“Mobile to Any Mobile is an exciting offer that will keep our customers connected to the people they want to talk to, when they want to talk to them, without the hassle of watching minutes,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, in the press release. “We’re giving customers more options and even better value. And when you include Rollover Minutes, a benefit available exclusively from AT&T that lets customers keep their unused minutes for all domestic calls, including to landline numbers, it’s clear that AT&T offers the most flexibility in the industry.”
Unlimited messaging is available for $20 per month on an individual plan and $30 per month for a FamilyTalk Plan, which allows for up to five lines.
*Available only with select Nation and FamilyTalk plans. Direct calls to & direct calls received from US mobile numbers only. Rollover Minutes: Unused Anytime Mins expire after the 12th billing period. Night & Weekend & Mobile to Mobile mins do not roll over.
Source: AT&T, Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: Desperate times call for desperate measures.
This is a nice upgrade, and a step in the right direction
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Will it work with google voice
Data is still a RIP OFF
I agree. Date and messaging should be combined. Imagine in you had to pay per email or Facebook post.
I bet you that will be coming anytime soon. Seriously. There is talk about this going on right now, on how they could monetize just what you are talking about.
As companies like AT&T and Verizon continue to lose handset control – as someone pointed out below – their margin will erode further and further.
They are going to have to come up with something only a carrier could come up with – and that will be charge-by-post to facebook, twitter and so on, “But you can buy the $10 per month face/twit/gmail package, and it will all be included.”, will be the pitch. I can hear it now.
Let’s not kid ourselves, they will try anything…
And why do I need unlimited texting to speak to someone??
From the post: “Beginning Thursday, Mobile to Any Mobile will be available to new and existing AT&T customers with a qualifying voice plan who subscribe to unlimited messaging plans.”
And you’ll find the $20.00 price for Unlimited Text in the post as well.
Alright where is the real post I was replying too? Spooky! Where’d the Emoticons go?
You have to love competition.
Did they define America? If it is truly All of the Americas (North South & Central) that would be huge.
Finally. Market saturation and a handset maker unwilling to allow carriers to dictate features, etc. Let real competition commence.
@steve516 100% agree AT&T is stepping it up. Verizon has too many drawbacks I stick with AT&T thank you
I already don’t count minutes.
I have three iPhones on my AT&T plan, and we don’t use a landline.
I am in sales, and my work extension is transferred to my iPhone.
I use A LOT of minutes.
We are on the family shared 700 minute program, and never go over the allotted minutes, due to free weekends, mobile to mobile, and roll-over.
This will be a welcome addition to our plan, but I really don’t see that it will cost AT&T very much in the longrun.
Why I know that some are not happy with their AT&T iPhones, I am not one of them. It’s just works better for me where I live so this is an added bonus for us who don’t plan on switching. Thanks
Let the price wars begin!!!!
Just called AT&T. This update is true, but it’s $20 extra. That should have been posted in here somewhere
Hooray competition!
Been a Verizon customer for years, and was planning on waiting for the iPhone 5, but AT&T is seriously luring me into switching carriers once the launch happens.
What’s with the AT&T hate @ MDN? I was with Verizon up until the iPhone came out and they sucked customer service wise. I don’t want to go back. Probably never.
Just because it’s good for Apple doesn’t make this event the rapture. Zealous defense against Android’s progress is not necessarily a promotion of a better platform.
You guys need to ground yourselves a bit. Now bring on the hate …
In Puerto Rico Att charges $50 for unlimited voice and text messaging plus $25 of limited data. The plan is very good except for the limited data
Just give me flat rate pricing. Enough with classifying text as something different from data.
Wish Apple would become an MVNO.
Having said that, why all the AT&T hatred? No problems here in South Florida or on my recent trip to Vail, CO. I’d only switch to Verizon if I was in one of AT&T’s poor coverage areas. But I’d switch back to Sprint if they get the iPhone and I’m out of contract.
Wow. You people should be thanking AT&T for being the only company willing to break the Status Quo that existed before the iPhone; you know, when providers controlled the features phones have. AT&T was the only company to agree to Apple’s terms while ushering in new features like visible voicemail, notifications, and the real internet, all of which are now industry standards. Seems to me all the hate here on MDN is mere extremism for hate’s sake alone. Verizon can’t even offer simultaneous use of data and phone. How crappy is that? AT&T should be happy to rid themselves of all the perpetual whiners.
Just wait until ALL carriers get the iPhone…
And, this is the way it should be – tying a phone to one cell company is a real rip off of Americans…
Oh, no – wait! I just saw the ad at top right of MDN here – I want one of them Gubmint phones!!
@Brau – Well said.
Peace.
With all due respect, dear readers, it is really hard not to hate AT&T if you live in one of the major metropolitan areas where it is almost impossible to complete calls without at least one disconnect. Oh, and did I mention AT&T’s other famous trick? When the phone rings, the network connection sometimes drops to zero and has to reset itself. AT&T, for its part, has never responded to these issues with anything but stupid lies. They richly deserve the scorn of the many iPhone users who suffer the many inadequacies of the AT&T network on a daily basis. If you are in a part of the country where AT&T works well, then bully for you!
Competition is good. (greed isn’t bad either)
Good news for me because I already qualify.
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@ alansky,
Bully for me!
Well, most of the time.
This is a great deal! Competion is a good thing!
I don’t even come close to using my monthly minutes. But SMS is still too expensive, even with this feature.
It would be truly exciting if AT&T would enable it on every account that has data attached, even the low-end 450 minutes per month plan- for free. As it is, a lot of people are excluded because they don’t have a big plan. If AT&T really wants to attract customers, that would be an even bigger step in the right direction.