So, on Monday (June 7th) ATT will be discontinuing its unlimited data plan that is currently $30. It will be replaced with a $25 a month plan that includes 2GB of data (67.5MB/Day). I believe they are also offering 200MB for $15. Supposedly, "Only 2% of ATT's smartphone users consume > 2GB data". That isn't intellectually honest in my opinion, because: This assumes that the users of different phone models use data in the same quantities.
This is erroneous.
25ish% of smartphones are iphone/android devices. (Source)
These account for >85% of web traffic. (Source)
These devices are more capable of playing high quality video/music, browsing the full web, etc. AKA: They use more data. Most of these devices also have integrated GPS. While pure GPS doesn't use data to place you on a map, It does make use of your data connection to download and display the map images by which you orient yourself in relation to the little blinking dot that marks your location.
Brian
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