Every AT&T price increase in 2026: retired plans up $5 to $20, the per-line fee at $4.99, home internet up $5

AT&T raised prices in 2026 in three waves. From April bills, retired wireless plans went up $5 per line (older Unlimited Your Way plans), $10 or $20 per account (older unlimited plans) and $5 or $10 (older Mobile Share plans). On August 5, 2026 the per-line Administrative & Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee became $4.99, according to news reports; AT&T's fee schedule now lists $4.99. AT&T Fiber and AT&T Internet plans activated from June 9, 2024 to July 19, 2025 went up $5 on August 16, 2026, and older Internet Air plans went up $5 on September 28, 2026.

Figures above were read from AT&T's support notices and AT&T's Mobility Fee Schedule on 2026-10-16. The $3.99-to-$4.99 date comes from news reports. See sources.

Every AT&T price and fee change, dated

The table lists each change in date order, starting with the December 1, 2025 changes that set the prices 2026 started from. Rows marked "AT&T" are stated on an AT&T page. Rows marked "reported" come from news reports; we could not find an AT&T page that states them.

The retired wireless plans: which ones and how much

AT&T posted three notices for its older consumer plans. Each says the increase reached lines active before July 24, 2025 on their April 2026 bill, and plans activated from July 24, 2025 to November 1, 2025 on the August 2026 bill.

• Retired unlimited plans (Unlimited Plus, Unlimited Choice, Unlimited Choice II, Unlimited Plus Enhanced, Unlimited Choice Enhanced, Unlimited &More, Unlimited &More Premium and the Unlimited Plan (Double Play)): $10 a month more for one line, or $20 a month more for an account with several lines. AT&T's notice says of the $20: "This is the total monthly increase and isn’t $20 per line." AT&T also says: "As part of this change, you’ll get an extra 20GB of hotspot data per month."
• Retired Unlimited Your Way plans (Unlimited Starter SL, Unlimited Extra EL, Unlimited Premium PL, and the earlier Unlimited Starter, Unlimited Extra and Unlimited Premium): "The monthly plan charge for smartphones on select, retired unlimited plans under AT&T Unlimited Your Way® is increasing by $5 per line." The notice adds 10GB of hotspot data per month.
• Retired Mobile Share plans (Mobile Share Value, Mobile Share Value – Double Data, Mobile Share Plus and Mobile Share Advantage): $5 a month more on plans with less than 6GB of data, $10 a month more on plans with 6GB or more.

According to the questions section of the same notices, an affected account has a monthly rate plan change notice in the News you can use section of a bill that includes a date between June 22, 2026 and August 1, 2026.

The per-line fee: $3.49 to $4.99 in eight months

AT&T's Mobility Fee Schedule lists the AT&T Administrative & Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee at $4.99 per line per month for consumer postpaid service. The page gives no effective dates. News reports date the two steps: $3.49 to $3.99 on December 1, 2025 (Android Headlines) and $3.99 to $4.99 on August 5, 2026 (Droid Life). AT&T describes the charge this way: "This fee is not a tax or charge which the government requires AT&T collect from its customers". For business accounts, the schedule lists an Administrative Fee of up to $3.49 per line per month.

The fee is charged per line, so its effect grows with the number of lines. The table below is our arithmetic from the amounts above, for consumer postpaid accounts.

Home internet: three $5 increases in 2026, by activation date

AT&T's internet notice, as read on October 17, 2026, lists three dates. Starting August 16, 2026, AT&T Fiber and AT&T Internet plans activated from June 9, 2024 to July 19, 2025 rose $5 a month, and AT&T Internet plans with Access from AT&T for $15 also rose $5. For September 28, 2026, it says: "AT&T Internet Air plans activated before October 2025 went up $5 a month." For December 1, 2026, it says: "The monthly price for most AT&T Internet plans activated prior to June 2024 will go up $5 a month", adding that the increase will happen in one to three bill periods and does not apply to current AT&T Fiber or AT&T Internet Air plans.

Separately, AT&T changed the AT&T Fiber lineup for customers choosing a plan from June 7, 2026, to four speeds (300 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 GIG and 5 GIG). AT&T's June 3, 2026 release does not list the price of each speed on its own, so it is not in the table.

AT&T PREPAID in 2026

We found no AT&T page that states a 2026 prepaid price change. BestMVNO reported on January 13, 2026 that the 5GB and 15GB plans with rollover data would rise $3, to $33 and $43, on February 6, 2026, without grandfathering current customers. GSMArena and Android Headlines reported in May 2026 a new Administrative & Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee of $2.63 per service payment from June 22, 2026. On October 16, 2026, the AT&T PREPAID section of AT&T's Mobility Fee Schedule listed an activation fee, a number change fee, a payment convenience fee, a returned payment fee and an equipment restocking fee, and no Administrative & Regulatory Cost Recovery Fee.

Does any AT&T guarantee lock the price?

The AT&T Guarantee, as described on AT&T's Guarantee page on October 16, 2026, covers bill credits for qualifying network outages, smartphone deals that do not require the most expensive plan, no hidden fees or equipment charges on AT&T Fiber, and support response times. It contains no promise about the monthly plan price.

AT&T's Consumer Service Agreement says: "We may add, modify, or delete any terms, conditions, rates, or fees for any AT&T Service at any time." The fee schedule says: "AT&T reserves the right to increase its fees or impose additional fees as permitted by your CSA." In its June 3, 2026 fiber release, AT&T described its own approach as simple plan choices offered "while Verizon and T-Mobile roll out confusing price locks".

The one price lock we found on an AT&T page is on AT&T PREPAID: the prepaid plans page says "Lock in our lowest monthly price for 5 years" for an AT&T Prepaid Exclusive offer for new single-line customers, and says "Taxes & fees extra." We could not read the full offer terms (see below).

What we could not confirm

• The effective dates of the per-line fee steps ($3.49 to $3.99 on December 1, 2025, and $3.99 to $4.99 on August 5, 2026). AT&T's Mobility Fee Schedule shows only the current $4.99 and carries no dates; we found no AT&T notice page for either step. The dates come from Android Headlines and Droid Life.
• The December 1, 2025 home internet increase and its exclusions. The AT&T internet notice now describes the 2026 changes only. Whether Internet Air was included in December 2025 was not confirmed.
• The AT&T PREPAID $2.63 fee. It was reported for June 22, 2026, but it is not on the current fee schedule. We could not confirm whether it is being charged.
• The February 6, 2026 prepaid plan prices ($33 and $43). The AT&T prepaid plans page draws its prices with a script that our tools could not read.
• The full terms of the prepaid 5-year price lock (which plans, and what ends it). The offer details are not in the text we could read on AT&T's page.
• A 2026 increase on the retired AT&T Unlimited Elite plan. Unlimited Elite is not named in any of AT&T's three 2026 plan notices.
• The standalone price of each AT&T Fiber speed before and after June 7, 2026. A $15 rise on 1 GIG has been reported, but AT&T's release gives no standalone prices.

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Changes to this page

• 2026-10-17: added the November 17, 2026 change to AT&T Protect Advantage Multi-Device ($50 to $55 a month, New York excluded), from AT&T's device protection page and its program change notice; added the December 1, 2026 increase of $5 a month for most AT&T Internet plans activated before June 2024, which AT&T's internet notice now lists.
• 2026-10-16: first published.

Sources

• AT&T support: Learn about changes to your AT&T unlimited plan - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T support: Learn about changes to select AT&T wireless plans (Unlimited Your Way) - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T support: Get info on changes to your AT&T Mobile Share plan - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T support: Get details about your internet price change - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T support: ActiveArmor advanced mobile security price change - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T support: Learn about changes to AT&T Protect Advantage - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Protect Advantage Multi-Device change on November 17, 2026 - AT&T: Device protection, read 2026-10-17
• Program change notice effective November 17, 2026 - AT&T (PDF), read 2026-10-17
• AT&T Mobility Fee Schedule - AT&T Legal Policy Center, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Consumer Service Agreement - AT&T Legal Policy Center, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Guarantee - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Prepaid phone plans - AT&T, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Launches Simple Fiber Plans (June 3, 2026) - AT&T release on PR Newswire, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Home Internet Prices Go Up Yet Again (Oct. 17, 2025) - Android Headlines, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Monthly Increase Adds New Charges for Users (Dec. 2, 2025) - Android Headlines, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Prepaid Rollover Data Plans Will Get A Price Hike Next Month (Jan. 13, 2026) - BestMVNO, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T will introduce a new fee for prepaid customers in June (May 20, 2026) - GSMArena, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Prepaid Users Hit with a New, Surprise Monthly Fee (May 21, 2026) - Android Headlines, read 2026-10-16
• AT&T Increases Price And Adds Mobile Hotspot Data To The Legacy Unlimited Elite Smartphone Plan (Oct. 3, 2024) - Mobile Internet Resource Center, read 2026-10-16
• Your AT&T Bill is Going Up (June 23, 2026) - Droid Life, read 2026-10-16

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