I'm pretty much on the same boat as you. ATT is offering something like Verizon (here) but you have to be on the AT&T Next or AT&T Next Every Year. Not sure by being on this will void the grandfathered unlimited plan. I just bought all my phones outright to avoid this mess.
wow, that could of been a lot worse. truck driver was playing it safe keeping his distance to the cars in front but got fed up with all of these other drivers abusing his safe distance cutting in.