AT&T new family share - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

ATT came out with their family share plans today...pretty sweet for those of use who use alot of data or ESPECIALLY those who have ghost lines. It is a base price for the amount of data, all plans automatically have unlimited talk and text. You pay per data package depending on what you think you and whoever is on your plan would need and then a price for each smart phone. For example:
(these are made up but show what it will look like)
4GB=90 plus a &20 charge for each smartphone...its like verizons pretty much...
so a person with four lines and only two smartphones is only looking at a $130+tax charge a month instead of $180...good stuff from at&t
should save people money
Posted this in xda general but wanted to share with my note peeps too :laugh::laugh::good: <3

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If I remember correctly its more then 20 to add a smart phone. I think it was more like 40 - 35 depending on which plan you chose. It went down the higher the plan you choose. Unfortunately, won't be saving any money for my situation.
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ILuvRice said:
If I remember correctly its more then 20 to add a smart phone. I think it was more like 40 - 35 depending on which plan you chose. It went down the higher the plan you choose. Unfortunately, won't be saving any money for my situation.
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Same here won't be saving.... u are right its 45 for a add a line and moving down... here's a graph and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/verizon-att-shared-data-plans_n_1689562.html for more info
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Yeah that's why it says the numbers are made up and an example of what the structure is like...read
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Alright, my wife and I have an older plan still. I have the Note and she has the Iphone 4s. Right now are monthly bill (if there are no extras) is about $123 a month. That's 700 minutes/200 text each/250mb data each. We've had AT&T for a while so we have some old options.
I'd like to have unlimted text and higher data (1GB would be plenty for me), so in the end is it worth updating to this shared package? I think the basic package ends up being 130+tax? Am I correct?

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With a gig to share and two smart phones with unlimited text and call we are looking at 130$ which isn't bad because you get lot more out of it for $7
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For me who has 3 ghost lines it saves me a TON
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Kflan22 said:
For me who has 3 ghost lines it saves me a TON
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Not saving me a penny. Lol. When I saw those plans on CSP I laughed. Just glad I can keep my current family plan.
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hiii_imkris said:
Not saving me a penny. Lol. When I saw those plans on CSP I laughed. Just glad I can keep my current family plan.
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same here; if you have a family plan now, with all smart phones, do NOT change to the new plan, as your bill will go UP....
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Kflan22 said:
For me who has 3 ghost lines it saves me a TON
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whats a "ghost line"?

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I dont understand the prices. Some places say that the additional cost for smart phones is for the 2nd+ phone on the plan, but some places it says each smart phone.
If its 30 for each phone, going for the 10gb plan with 2 smart phones would put me at $180 before taxes. I currently spend $180~ for a 2gb and unlimited data plans.
If its 30 for the 2nd phone then I could actually save money since I rarely go over 4-5gb these days and my wife uses almost nothing. I could even add my ipad2 and only spend $160 per month. I dont know if I want to give up my unlimited tho.

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Ghost lines, i believe is when you add a line to get the upgrade price for a phone
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astang99 said:
Ghost lines, i believe is when you add a line to get the upgrade price for a phone
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Yeah, then that line has no features placed on it. Basically a "ghost"
I've got two on my account currently. New plan would have those lines go from 9.99/mo to 30/mo
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Ghost line is I have three lines and I'm the only one...more upgrades and phones that I can sell
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hiii_imkris said:
Yeah, then that line has no features placed on it. Basically a "ghost"
I've got two on my account currently. New plan would have those lines go from 9.99/mo to 30/mo
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Meh I quit
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Kflan22 said:
No it wouldn't a ghost line is a fake imei and no features...so you actually pay NOTHING for those lines....you put whatever data plan on there then pay per SMARTPHONE on that plan...so any non smartphone costs you $0
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Basic phones are 30. Laptop connect cards are 20. Tablets are 10.
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these plans are for heavy users or sharing with emerging devices. basic smartphone users won't benefit.
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Thanks for the heads up!!!
Sounds cool... I called AT&T after reading this to verify to what I saw on their site HERE and I was told late August this should be available. Currently I pay $302 for 5 smart phones on AT&T with the family plan with limited minutes. With this new plan I will be able to save another $20 a month and not have to share minutes at all. The down side is that I would have a lower limit on my data. I now have 3GB per line and the plan that would help me is the $120 plan that allows us all to share 10GB which is 2GB a piece on average. But I'm sure that will be ok though.

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I am disappointed. I have a wife and a teenage daughter. Was hoping the share plan would be a little more reasonable to get the daughter and the wife some more data. Not swaying me from giving up my unlimited plan though.
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hiii_imkris said:
Basic phones are 30. Laptop connect cards are 20. Tablets are 10.
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This Public Service Announcement brought to you by a pimped out At&t gNote rocking *The Collectives* AOCP CP1...

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Kflan22 said:
Ghost line is I have three lines and I'm the only one...more upgrades and phones that I can sell
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So you pay an extra $10 for each phone and maintain 2 data plans just to sell 2 extra smart phones per year?
Thats $60 per month more ($660 per year) and then $200-300 per upgrade so essentially you buying an extra 2 smart phones per year for $530-630 each and reselling them?
This doesnt make sense unless your able to use 2 dumb phones in their place to eliminate the data plans. Does AT&T allow that?