AT&T Offers International Data Plans to iPhone Users

AT&T Offers International Data Plans to iPhone Users

AT&T Inc. started offering two new international data plans for iPhone users.  One of the new plans costs $119.99 a month for 100MB of data use, while the other costs $199 a month for 200MB.  Both plans apply to 67 countries, including many major destinations for U.S. travelers, but they do not apply to 20 countries, including Turkey and Venezuela, where the data rate is 2 cents per kilobyte. For all other countries, data usage will be 10 cents per kilobyte.


According to AT&T, the reason behind the new data plan is to provide users who travel abroad with full HTML email access, visual voice mail, enhanced web browsing and other feature-rich applications with larger data use. The company also assured that the new plans require no long-term commitment, so a customer could select the added data service for only one month.