Plus you’ve got AT&T having charged the full 3G data fee for iPhones in areas that haven’t ever had 3G, just EDGE service for the last 2 years or more… no discounts for providing sub-par service that they refuse to invest in while raking in required data fees and crying about their limited bandwidth.

Unfortunately, the latest shot across the bow with a discount on unlimited talk and data plans by Verizon, and followed by AT&T are only a small discount to people that actually use those unlimited talk plans. The changes in the rest of both their respective lower tier plan options actually mean a long term price increase for the majority of customers.. so what they’ve actually done is conned everyone into thinking they were finally cutting prices while they actually raised them behind the scenes.

I think AT&T is getting smacked for under-investing in their network, that it’s their own fault they are in this position, and Verizon called them out on it in a particularly nasty, but effective way this past Christmas.

Turnabout could be fair play should AT&T best Verizon in some way.

I’m rooting for an all-out price war that represents real savings for consumers instead of what we have now.