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.
Can’t wait until MDN gets a good taste of Verizon’s extremely slow data speeds and poor customer service. Like many above, I was formerly a VW customer for many years and switched to AT&T.
just give me a decent price for unlimited everything and get on with life
…”tying a phone to one cell company is a real rip off of Americans…”
It’s only a rip-off if that phone is an iPhone. If you look at all those Androids, vast majority of models are also exclusive to a carrier. There are almost no smartphones (other than Blackberry) that are available on multiple carriers in the US.
Obviously, nobody really cared much about that exclusivity… until the iPhone, that is.
Still. Verizons network is inferior, both in data speed and that you can’t call and use data at tha same time which is really ridiculous year 2011… Incredible… Verizons network should be scrapped and replaced with LTE.
MacDailyNews Take: Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Really?
These aren’t desperate times for At&t. If you do your research, they often have innovate pricing plans, even before the iPhone. This is just another feature for customers.
Get over it already.
I love competition…
I just walked out of my local AT&T store. Asked the guy about it, wrote my info down and will sign me up for it tomorrow
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Only landline calls will cost me now…
So you have to pay extra to get “unlimited” calling? It would be news if ATT eliminated “counting minutes” and you can make unlimited phone calls for ONE fixed fee. But charging extra (above the existing plans) is just adding complexity. Most customers who sign up, thinking it’s a good deal, will end put paying more (on average) for the same service.
I am happy. We have family plan and my college age grandson uses about 90% of our 700 minutes calling his girl friend and his buddies. Just about every call he makes is to a cellphone. This is great news for us, we may actually get some rollover minutes again. And I used to have Verizon and it was ok but AT&T has been great where we live. I have not had a dropped call in our area since my original iPhone. MDN can pound sand as far as I am concerned. I feel the same about their attitude as I do Consumer Reports.
An iPhone owner on AT&T talking on his phone to a Verizon customer 500 miles away.
“Yes, Bob, can you hear me now? Yeah AT&T just brought out a new pricing plan for unlimited minutes of call time.”
“Hello Bob? Can you hear me now?”
“Bob? Yeah as I was saying it’s unlimited. What? Can you hear me now?”
Redials…
“Listen Bob this is the 15th time this call has been dropped. No, I’m not holding it wrong – it’s that damned AT&T cell service. Spotty as usual.”
Groundhog day.
Is it any wonder call minutes are free when you have to dial a number 15 times to finish the conversation?
When i talked to the AT&T rep, he said it was NOT an added cost.
If you read the article, if you ALREADY have the unlimited plans, it’s no extra.
Obviously those complaining about the extra cost, do not already have the unlimited plans.
Hughb, speaking of consumer reports… NASA discredited them once again yesterday lol. When will everyone else realize CR is just a bunch of FUD-mongers.
An iPhone owner on AT&T talking on his phone to a Verizon customer 500 miles away.
“Yes, Bob, can you hear me now? Yeah AT&T just brought out a new pricing plan for unlimited minutes of call time.”
“Hello Bob? Can you hear me now?”
“Bob? Yeah as I was saying it’s unlimited. What? Can you hear me now?”
Redials…
“Listen Bob this is the 15th time this call has been dropped. No, I’m not holding it wrong – it’s that damned AT&T cell service. Spotty as usual.”
Groundhog day.
Is it any wonder call minutes are free when you have to dial a number 15 times to finish the conversation?
The iPhone is driving competition. Bravo! Apple. Bravo!
This is actually good news. Just saved $30 on my family plan since I could downgrade from the 1400 plan to the 700 minute plan. My partner only calls and chats with people on their cells anyway. We rarely call landlines. I would have gone to the 550 plan but they didn’t allow it. Your total monthly cost has to be $69.99 or higher. I lost some rollover, but wont’ have any now that any mobile carrier counts. With all the defectors to Verizon, I would have needed a bigger A-list group. Oh well, at least I saved $360 in the next year.