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AT&T’s New 2.0 Unlimited Plans Are More Affordable, Especially After Legacy Rate Hikes

AT&T has introduced new unlimited phone plans that represent a price cut for existing customers. The AT&T Value 2.0 and AT&T Extra 2.0 plans are straight-up cheaper than the plans they replace, while the AT&T Premium 2.0 plan costs more than its predecessor — but new rate increases to legacy plans that go into effect in April make it more affordable, too.. These plans replace the AT&T Value Plus VL, Unlimited Extra EL and Unlimited Premium PL plans. However, the carrier also removed its Unlimited Starter SL plan, which served as the entry-level plan (you had to know where to look to find the limited, but cheaper, Value Plus VL plan).. If you’re looking to upgrade your existing AT&T plan, shopping for a new provider or looking to compare carriers, keep in mind that AT&T plans let each person on an account have their own plan. So you might set up a package where one person has the Premium 2.0 plan for unthrottled 5G speeds and another, such as a child, is set up with the Value 2.0 plan to save money.. Also, if you’re on a current AT&T plan, you won’t be automatically moved to one of the new plans. If you do want to make the jump, you’ll incur a line activation fee of up to $50. And keep in mind that the pricing below is the AutoPay amount; carriers provide a discount (usually $10) if you sign up for automatic payments.. One nice change is that the new plans are priced with round numbers. For example, the Value Plus VL plan was priced at $50.99 for one line, and the Value 2.0 plan is $50 (in comparisons below, I’ve rounded up the old prices to full-dollar amounts). Taxes and fees get added on top of that, so you’ll never see a round-number bill, but I’d like to think it’s a quiet acknowledgement that pricing things one penny below a larger number is insulting to customers.. Let’s dig into the details.. Choose from AT&T’s mobile plans. Jeff Carlson/CNET. Value 2.0, the budget plan. The Value 2.0 plan replaces both the Value Plus VL plan and the retired Unlimited Starter SL plan and costs $50 a month for a single line or $120 a month when you have four lines on the account. That’s $1 per line cheaper than Value Plus VL.. For that, you get 5GB of high-speed 5G data, and then unlimited data dropped to a paltry 128Kbps speed for the rest of the month. Calling and texting are unlimited.. You can also use up to 3GB of high-speed hotspot data to share the cellular connection with other devices, also slowed to 128Kbps after hitting the limit. The Value Plus VL plan did not offer hotspot data.. It also includes unlimited talk, text and data between the US, Mexico and Canada.. Extra 2.0, more fast data for not much more money. The Extra 2.0 plan costs $70 a month for a single line or $160 a month for four lines, which is $6 cheaper for one line and $4 cheaper for four lines compared with the old Unlimited Extra EL plan.. The Extra 2.0 plan includes 100GB of high-speed data (with the caveat that speeds can be slowed if the network is busy), which drops to 128K

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for March 24, #1017

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. If you want to solve it, it helps to know what “heteronym” means. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time. Hints for today’s Connections groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: Think Gru and the Minions.. Green group hint: Dearly beloved.. Blue group hint: Vroom-vroom.. Purple group hint: You can say them several ways.. Answers for today’s Connections groups. Yellow group: Despicable.. Green group: Features of a wedding.. Blue group: Kinds of trucks.. Purple group: Heteronyms.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections answers?. The completed NYT Connections puzzle for March 24, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is despicable. The four answers are base, low, mean and vile.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is features of a wedding. The four answers are cake, kiss, ring and vow.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is kinds of trucks. The four answers are dump, fire, food and tow.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is heteronyms. The four answers are bow, row, sow and wind. (Heteronyms are words that can be pronounced more than one way, with different meanings for each pronunciation.). Toughest Connections puzzles. We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.. #5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.. #4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.. #3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.. #2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.. #1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for March 24 #751

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is pretty difficult. The theme threw me off for quite a while. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle. Today’s Strands theme is: Get over it … or get through it.. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Elements of a certain kind of race.. Clue words to unlock in-game hints. Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:. SLAT, STALL, STALE, BRAD, CODE, CALL, RICE, DICE. Answers for today’s Strands puzzle. These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:. HOOP, WALL, FENCE, HURDLE, TUNNEL, BARRICADE. Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands puzzle for March 24, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Today’s Strands spangram is OBSTACLECOURSE. To find it, start with the O that’s three letters to the right on the top row, and wind down.. Toughest Strands puzzles. Here are some of the Strands topics I’ve found to be the toughest.. #1: Dated slang. Maybe you didn’t even use this lingo when it was cool. Toughest word: PHAT.. #2: Thar she blows! I guess marine biologists might ace this one. Toughest word: BALEEN or RIGHT.. #3: Off the hook. Again, it helps to know a lot about sea creatures. Sorry, Charlie. Toughest word: BIGEYE or SKIPJACK.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for March 24, #1739

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s Wordle puzzle is a tough one, with a tricky double letter. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.. Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025. Today’s Wordle hints. Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats. Today’s Wordle answer has one repeated letter.. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels. Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel, but it’s the repeated letter, so you’ll see it twice.. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter. Today’s Wordle answer begins with B.. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter. Today’s Wordle answer ends with D.. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning. Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a family of young animals, especially birds.. TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER. Today’s Wordle answer is BROOD.. Yesterday’s Wordle answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 23, No. 1738, was SERIF.. Recent Wordle answers. March 19, No. 1734: REHAB. March 20, No. 1735: OASIS. March 21, No. 1736: SLICK. March 22, No. 1737: BASIL. What’s the best Wordle starting word?. Don’t be afraid to use our tip sheet ranking all the letters in the alphabet by frequency of uses. In short, you want starter words that lean heavy on E, A and R, and don’t contain Z, J and Q.. Some solid starter words to try:. ADIEU. TRAIN. CLOSE. STARE. NOISE

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 24, #547

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a mixed bag. I enjoyed the blue group, which matches up people with the same first name. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.. Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta. Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: Strike!. Green group hint: Fire it in there!. Blue group hint: Like Springsteen.. Purple group hint: Great force.. Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Yellow group: Found in a bowling alley.. Green group: Baseball pitches.. Blue group: Famous Bruces.. Purple group: Power ____.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?. The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for March 24, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is found in a bowling alley. The four answers are bowling ball, bumper, gutter and pin.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is baseball pitches. The four answers are changeup, cutter, slider and slurve.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is famous Bruces. The four answers are Bowen, Lee, Smith and Sutter.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is power ____. The four answers are forward, hitter, lifter and play.

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, March 24

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It helps to know a little about birds. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword. Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for March 24, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Mini across clues and answers. 1A clue: Apple computers. Answer: MACS. 5A clue: Colorful parrot with a long tail. Answer: MACAW. 6A clue: Enticing scent. Answer: AROMA. 7A clue: __ song (dangerous lure). Answer: SIREN. 8A clue: “Barbie” character whose job is “beach”. Answer: KEN. Mini down clues and answers. 1D clue: Singing sister in the Osmond family. Answer: MARIE. 2D clue: Future oak tree, perhaps. Answer: ACORN. 3D clue: Attended. Answer: CAME. 4D clue: ___ song (farewell performance). Answer: SWAN. 5D clue: Conceal. Answer: MASK