Okay, I read the press release… AT&T is definitely trying to stop people from using tons of bandwidth and I can only guess it’s because the new iPhone will allow tons of video stuff (chat, streaming, etc.).ADHERER

The plans are pretty basic, and make little sense when compared to each other.  For $15 you get 200MB.  They will send you texts and emails at 65% used, 90% used, and 100% used and if you go over, it’s $15 for another 200MB.

OTOH, you can get, for $25 a month, 2GB of data; and then $10 gets you 1GB more (seems at odds between the plans, but whatever).

I just checked my iPhone usage… 88MB and I’m about 9 days into the cycle.  So, at that rate, I’ll use about 300MB in a month.  That’s pretty much considering I don’t do that much on my iPhone, especially since I got the iPad.  In any case, I could probably easily get away with the $25 plan, which is $35 less per month than I’m paying now.

Of course, people can stick with their current plans (I wonder how it will work when it’s time to renew… will they force you to one of the new plans?).  I think I am going to drop my iPhone plan to the $25 2GB plan and keep my iPad $30 unlimited plan ($25 for 2GB seems stupid compared to $30 unlimited) and just use my iPad for more stuff.  I’ll turn off push email on the iPhone and have it check every 15 or 30 minutes for new email, if I need to save data.

What do you all think?  Is AT&T being nice, or are they trying to protect themselves from people using a lot of wireless bandwidth?