New AT&T subscribers will no longer get HBO Max (or any other video service)
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#607XF)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One perk most wireless carriers offer to pull you to their side is a free streaming video-on-demand subscription, but now AT&T won't be giving HBO Max to new customers, and hasn't replaced it with a different service either. The carrier stealthily discontinued its top-tier Unlimited Elite plan for new subscribers this week, and added a new one that doesn't include HBO Max anymore, as reported by Next TV (via FierceWireless).
The new top plan is called Unlimited Premium, which comes in at the same $85 a month for a single line. Just like with the now-grandfathered Elite plan, Premium subscribers get unlimited talk / text / data, 4K video streaming, and no slowdowns even if they use a lot of data (a promise AT&T introduced for its priciest...