The famous telecommunications company is planning to stop its unlimited service for mobile data. They say this will end up cheaper for around 98 percent of its customers.

AT&T is the exclusive provider for Apple’s iPhone. They say that the new rates, which will take effect on June 7, mean that if a customer uses his iPhone more often for web surfing than the regular customer, he will have to pay more to enjoy it.

The current rate of the company is $29.99 per month for unlimited web surfing. The new rate is said to benefit light surfers and will cost more for heavy users. The reason behind the rate change is the company’s idea to restrain numerous downloads by heavy users. They will implement this to solve the network problems they have experienced in the past years.

The new rates are $15 per month for 200 MB of data. According to AT&T, “That equals about 400 web pages, 1000 e-mails with no attachments, 50 online photos or 20 minutes of video.” If the user exceeds his limit, they are charged automatically another $15. Surprisingly, the company said that only 35% of their users use more than 200 megabytes monthly.

The next available rate is $25 monthly for 2 GB of data. This is ten times more data than the previous plan which is very affordable for the bulk users. However, AT&T shares that only 2% of its users avail of 2GB of data monthly. For excess of 2GB, customers are charged only $10 per extra gigabyte of data.

iPad users are also given a new rate of $25 per month for 2 GB of data.