AT&T has announced that customers of its Mobile Share Value plan will be allowed to roll over their unused data from the previous month starting January 25.
Customers will not be required to do anything at all. The monthly data rollover will be a permanent feature for family and business customers on AT&T's shared plan, which harkens back to the days when mobile carriers provided a similar feature for unused monthly call credits.
"Rollover data is an added benefit of being an AT&T Mobile Share Value customer and it's just another way that we're saying thanks to our more than 50 million plus Mobile Share Value subscribers," says AT&T Mobility president and CEO Glenn Lurie in a statement. "We're providing even more value and flexibility, and the best part is it's simple, shareable and easy to track for our customers. All Mobile Share Value customers get this automatically."
To illustrate, a customer with four lines in a 15-gigabyte plan and only uses 10 gigabytes of that plan will have 5 gigabytes to roll over for the next month.
This means he will receive an additional 5 gigabytes of data for the second month and have a total of 20 gigabytes for use among all four lines.
The feature is not without its caveats, though. For one thing, customers cannot use their rollover data unless they have run out of the regular data they have for the month.
Also, they can only use rollover data during the second month. Once the third month rolls around, their rollover data from last month disappears.
