Last year, all over the internet, people were talking about an old AT&T tablet plan that was truly unlimited that wasn't advertised but still valid to purchase. You just needed to know where online to find it. It was all the rage. Use an older tablet that was collecting dust, sign up for the plan and input the tablet ID information they required. After the purchase was made, buy a SIM card, put it in a mobile hotspot router, activate it using the information given when they signed up and you then had a wifi hotspot with truly unlimited data. Perfectly legal to do, but because so many people were doing it, AT&T got wise to what was going on and really ended the tablet plan which made everyone's wonderful hotspot worthless.
From what I understand, when the big cell phone companies end a plan, they just make it unavailable to sign up for it. They don't actually remove the ability, it's just hidden. They do this in case they want to bring a plan back in the future. If you learned what the URL was to sign up you still could. I read where part of the deal was you had to allow recurring monthly billing and you could only cancel by doing it online but because AT&T really got rid of the plan, they removed the online sign up and cancel pages. AT&T reps didn't know how to cancel them either. it was like the accounts didn't exist but people were still getting charged every month.
So because the online cancel page was gone and AT&T reps were of no help, everyone that had signed up had to cancel their credit card to stop being charged monthly for a plan that no longer existed.
