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AT&T Wireless Stops Selling Tablets With Subsidized Pricing

2012-08-20 09:53 by
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AT&T representatives have announced that the company won't sell tablets with a long-term contract any more.

This comes several weeks after Verizon stopped selling tablets with subsidies as well. In the past both AT&T and Verizon offered tablets at their full MSRP along with lower priced options that locked the buyer into a 2- year contract. Now, the tablets are only available at their full price.

The change comes reportedly as a result of AT&T's upcoming Mobile Share plans, which allow users to attach tablets onto their pool of data for $10 more per month. If you're avoiding AT&T's shared data plans, however, you'll want to know that the carrier's data pricing for tablets is now $5 per month less since customers will no longer be paying off subsidies.

Right now this AT&T policy change is not as significant as it was at Verizon. Outside of the iPad that's always been free of a contract, AT&T only sells a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, the craptastic Pantech Element and widely overpriced (and rather shitty) HTC Jetstream. But hopefully, AT&T will get some quality Android tablets in the future and price them competitively.

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