Last updated: April 14, 2020
AT&T offers two prepaid, unlimited plans: the Unlimited plan and the Unlimited Plus plan. While both of these plans include unlimited minutes, texts, and data, the Unlimited Plus plan has additional features.
Pricing
The Unlimited Plus plan has a base price $5-$10 per month higher than the regular Unlimited plan.
- Unlimited: $65 per month ($45 per month with automatic payments)
- Unlimited Plus: $75 per month ($50 per month with automatic payments)
Given the huge discount that comes with automatic payments, subscribers should be sure to set those up.
Prioritization
On the regular Unlimited plan, AT&T notes:1
Mobile hotspot
The Unlimited Plus plan comes with an allotment of 10GB of full-speed mobile hotspot data. Mobile hotspot allows laptops and other devices to piggyback on a phone’s cellular connection. Subscribers on the Unlimited plan don’t normally get any allotment of hotspot data. However, these subscribers can pay $10 for a 5GB hotspot add-on.
Video streaming
Video streaming is limited to standard definition (sometimes called 480p or DVD-quality) on the Unlimited plan. Subscribers on the Unlimited Plus plan can stream at up to 1080p quality if they turn off AT&T’s Stream Saver.
Footnotes
- The excerpt came from AT&T’s prepaid plans page on 4/14/2020.