When I searched the att.com site for information about Connected Car, I was shown some pages that indicate Honda is putting a $20/month "Connected Car" service in some of their vehicles - with the pictured vehicle being a mini-van. That's on
this page and on
this page (
This is my duckduckgo.com search of the att.com site.)
Further, AT&T seems to be thinking in terms of "connected car" prospects into the future.... as at
this page, although I quite agree that it doesn't say anything about a $20/month prospect or the mobley - they do seem to be promoting the branding of their term "connected car" a bit more than I would expect if they were dropping it completely.
Finally, at
about two thirds of the way down this page, they have a button to click to learn more about what can be done by way of "Connected Car solutions for existing vehicles" and, bless their hearts, they have a nice pic of the Mobley device just above the "Learn More" button. The Learn More button takes you to
this page about the Mobley or there's a link/URL just above it to
att.com/mobley. This is all showing a $20/month pricing plan...just as it used to be and with the same 22 gigs of data with possible throttling above that amount.
Now, I may be way off on my thinking about this, but it kinda, sorta sounds a little like they're starting to promote the concept more broadly and soliciting the involvement of auto manufacturers to promote it, as well. Given this amount of promotion, just maybe they're out of stock of the Mobley device on a more temporary than permanent basis and, if monitored, the device will likely be available again relatively soon(ish).
If some of the sales help is saying it's not available, is it possible/likely that they simply don't yet know - as seemed to be the case initially?
What do the rest of you think? Wishful thinking on my part? Reasonable analysis? Something else?
Peterson
