HT201415 My iPhone5 uses LTE (AT&T) even when connected to wifi

My iPhone5 uses cellular data when LTE is on, even if it's connected to wifi. If I turn off LTE, then it will connect to the wifi network. This has caused me to go over my data plan, since I don't have unlimited data, thinking I was on wifi, when in reality i was using my celular data plan. I have called AT&T and they claim they have not heard about this before, and to call Apple. I called Apple and they also tell me that they have no record of such issue. I have 2 iphone5 on my AT&T account and they both exhibit the same issues. Has anyone found a solution for this? It's very annoying to have to turn LTE off when I get home and on my home wifi.

These are the speeds I'm getting: 27.52Mbps on LTE, and 11.32Mbps on wifi, so cellular data IS faster then wifi. I like the faster speeds, but I don't have unlimited, so if I stream videos on Netflix, the iphone will use LTE. If Apple or AT&T would have told us this before, we would have saved hundreds of dollars on overages, but then again, we're talking about AT&t and Apple!

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