AT&T Offers New International Data Plan for iPhone Users

Om Malik, Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8:47 AM PT Comments (6)

A lot of folks had been grumbling about getting hit by huge data charges when traveling overseas with their iPhones. Now AT&T (T) is introducing a new international plan that gives iPhone users 50 MB of data per month to browse the web, check e-mail and access other information in more than 29 countries, including Canada, China, Mexico and in areas throughout Europe and Asia. This is going to set you back $59.99 a month, in addition to what you already pay. This works out to just over $1 a megabyte, which compares very favorably to the current $0.0195 per kilobyte, but it is still too expensive. At that price I would expect them to offer flat rates and unlimited data.

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November 2nd, 2007
10:00 AM PT
DEC said:

My VZW Global E-Mail & Web package is “unlimited” and costs $65. The only pet peeve I have is that it doesn’t include SMS!! Of course it’s not really “unlimited” either if you go over some arbitrary and unknowable limit.

November 3rd, 2007
10:01 AM PT
Scott Rafer said:

the flatrate global data plan is $20 a month. come on over.

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