I want to compare the Family 700 plan to newer plans for best price.

Question

We are currently on the Family plan 700 with rollover minutes. I get unlimited mobile to mobile, unlimited text,3G on one phone's data use, 2G on the second, 200mb on third and no data on the fourth line. My total bill after taxes and fees runs about $220.00 up to $235.00 inthe last 6 months. We get a corporate discount of 20%.

Answer 1

Dragonrider6 wrote:
We are currently on the Family plan 700 with rollover minutes. I get unlimited mobile to mobile, unlimited text,3G on one phone's data use, 2G on the second, 200mb on third and no data on the fourth line. My total bill after taxes and fees runs about $220.00 up to $235.00 inthe last 6 months. We get a corporate discount of 20%.
Let's see, if I add up all your data, you have about 5.2GB across 3 phones, and a fourth with no data (apparently a feature phone, since all smartphone require data plans).  If we look at the Mobile Share Value Plans we see:
6GB of shared data is $70, and 10GB of shared data is $100.  Your corporate discount would most likely only apply to this portion of your bill.
Each smartphone would then have a $40 fee for unlimited talk & text service, and the basic/feature phone would have a $20 fee for that, so that would add $140 to your bill.  Once again, this would most likely not get any corporate discount either.
Assuming your lines are either out of contract, or they has a service contract that started prior to 02/01/2014, you would be eligible for an "out of contract discount" for that phone.  The amount of your discount would be $15 per smartphone if your data plan is below 10GB, and $25 per smartphone if your data plan is 10GB or higher.  Your basic/feature phone would be a $5 duscount.  The catch here is that you would lose this discount if you sign a new service contract to replace a phone, or if you signed a new contract later than 02/01/2014.
From what we have so far, you could switch to a Mobile Share value Plan with 6GB of shared data and be paying about $197 (including your 20% discount on the $70 data plan) plus taxes & fees, assuming all your phones are contract subsidized.  This would probably total a little closer to $240-250 once all the taxes & federal fees are added.  Where it could save you money is if all your phones are eligible for the out of contract discount.
If you can get the out of contract discount, your fees would drop to about $147 plus taxes and fees for the 6GB data plan, and about $140 plus taxes and fees for the 10GB data plan.  Yes, you read that right, the 10GB data plan would be cheaper than the 6GB data plan due to the higher discounts for being out of contract.  The drawback to either of these is that if you sign a new service contract and get a subsidized phone, you will lose the discount, or you will have to pay full price for your phone (via NEXT, direct from AT&T, or from a third party).  I moved my wife & I from the plan you are currently one (except we both had the grandfathered unlimited data) to the 10GB shared plan and once we added new phones via NEXT, our bill was about $5/month higher than the old Family Talk plan, but before the new phones were added, we were saving about $40-50 each month. We also qualify for a 20% corporate discount and ours only applied to the shared data portion of the bill.