AT&T Unlimited Talk Plan is $69.99. Yay!

I can­not say I love AT&T, but I can say I love the iPhone that runs on it’s net­work. AT&T has not treated me dis­re­spect­ful or caused any calamity in my life. I have learned to live with dropped calls, lack of teth­er­ing on the iPhone, lack of Google Voice, stream­ing Net­flix, and the idea to charge $9.99/mo for a GPS app, when Google Maps and Tom­Tom has the iPhone GPS mar­ket locked.

How­ever, if the iPhone switched to Ver­i­zon, and Ver­i­zon didn’t brand the phone to death, or remove the cool com­pet­ing apps off the App Store, or nickel and dime you for basic func­tions, I would gladly pay the can­cel­la­tion fee, and switch.

AT&T had noth­ing going for it, except the iPhone. T-Mobile had com­pa­ra­ble ser­vice and lower prices. I even read that you could get an iPhone run­ning on the t-mobile net­work, but I did not want to take the chance.

How­ever, AT&T has finally low­ered their Unlim­ited talk plan to $69.99, which means I can now get unlim­ited voice and data for $100/mo. I use to pay nearly $150/mo for unlim­ited voice and data, with 200 text mes­sages. I switched to 900 min­utes and “My 5″ with unlim­ited data for $90/mo.

As soon as I got the email I called and switched. I have got­ten great at man­ag­ing calls, and even man­aged to accu­mu­late 700 rollover min­utes in Jan­u­ary, but I would really like talk on my phone, and not call peo­ple back on the office line when min­utes are run­ning low.

This is a great move by AT&T to stay com­pet­i­tive, but I am tired of see­ing AT&T react to com­pe­ti­tion. I would love to see them take some ini­tia­tive, and roll-out 4G before the com­pe­ti­tion, or sat­u­rate the U.S. with 3G, and promise no dropped calls.

A man can wish can’t he?