Secret Loophole Allows Unlimited Data For AT&T iPhone Users

In an unadvertised loophole, AT&T has allowed some of its subscribers who have had unlimited data plans in the past to switch back.
The loophole includes anyone who owned an iPhone before June, when the limited plans took effect.
The Associated Press (AP) learned of the loophole through some of AT&T’s iPhone subscribers.
Jose Argumedo, of Brentwood, NY, told AP's Peter Svensson that he and a friend were switched back to an unlimited plan recently after they called AT&T’s customer service. Both users own an iPhone 4, and previously owned earlier iPhone models.


Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&T, would not confirm the option. “We handle customers and their situations individually, and we're not going to discuss specifics,” he told Svensson.
AT&T has allowed iPhone and smartphone users with unlimited data plans to keep them when upgrading directly to a new phone. It’s the option to return to an unlimited plan after going limited that has been kept secret.
AT&T’s unlimited plan costs $30 per month. There are two limited plans -- one for $15 per month that provides 200mb of data, and another that provides 2gb for $25 per month. Above the 2gb limit, each additional gigabyte of data costs $10.
Two gigabytes of data per month is more than enough for most people.
Argumedo said he uses between 4 and 8gb per month, because he uses video and audio streaming services such as Pandora. He told Svensson that AT&T restored the unlimited plan after he threatened to go to Verizon.