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Every month it won't affect 95% of the customers, by definition.
AT&T or as we call it in our house “the phone company of the anti-christ” bla and boo to them.
My contract is done - I’m actively looking for another smart phone, probably with another company. I don’t move that much data, but the quantity of dropped calls IN MY OWN HOUSE are rather troublesome.
I went with AT&T because of the IPhone and the fact that they are the only company that has a signal in our work building.
Oh, and AT&T, let me guess, you're not going to count in this top 5% the massive video streaming network that goes to stores across the country? The true cause of the bandwidth crunch?
Go look in your local Circle K, 7-11, etc and look for the wireless hub with the AT&T cellular network card attached to it that's streaming video to that stupid display in the store that no one looks at. They're everywhere. Even in the checkout lines at the market. There's where all your bandwidth went, AT&T, as your sales force went out and gave away over half the bandwidth for less than the price of the current top tier throttled programs.
But we know that you'll be limiting only consumer accounts, and not these bandwidth hogs in the commercial sector. And please, please, please, be considerate and pull these bandwidth pigs off of other networks that are required under federal law to permit data roaming, even if the customer is in a location where there never has been any AT&T cellular service.
I finally got off my contract with ATT and went to Sprint with the EVO and couldn’t be happier!!
Well I have AT&T and I have no complaints. First class stuff. All the carriers will be doing this to survive. First internet and now mobile. Verizon and now AT&T. You have a small percent of bandwidth hogs that drive up the cost for everyone else and should indeed pay more.
Instead of beating up on these carriers I suggest everyone beat up on the FCC. They are pushing for free universal internet. This will have greater impact on all of us than this bandwidth hog price
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379296,00.asp
Ah yes... the unlimited limit plan. Makes perfect sense
We have been making the change from Sprint to AT&T, after having been pretty happy with Sprint. But we got EVOs on the promise of speed and 4g, which has been on the horizon for what seems like an eternity. My 4G EVO(3G network in our city) has slower internet than my Palm Pre(EVDO) did, which really burns me. I paid quite a lot to upgrade. I really like my EVO as a phone- big screen, a decent number of apps, but side by side tests with an iphone 3g on AT&T against my EVO on sprint are no comparison. AT&T is more expensive plans, but what good are the savings when I can’t get a web page to load or search for a local store? Plus we’ve had issues with calls not going through (between the EVOs and now between the iphones and my EVO).
This sounds like an excellent way to lose one’s customers to one’s competitors in a bad economy.
Ummm... what part of “unlimited” translates to “throttled”? Can someone say “breach of contract”?
I could understand if someone is using their smartphone for more than just data on their smartphone (like using it to tether a computer - which is against the terms of the contract they agreed to when they signed up). But AT&T would have to figure out how to tell the difference between smartphone data use and tethered use (which AT&T doesn’t currently have the capacity to judge).
Then again - is Verizon any better? You still cannot use the internet connection and voice at the same time - so that already limits somewhat.
What I find even more interesting - AT&T is getting ready to roll out their own version of 4G service - if current bandwidth usage is causing issues, what happens when 4G goes online? Hmmmm...
I always do everything in my power to get away from AT&T, but because they can't ever successfully compete with anyone, they simply buy the superior competition, and I have to leave them again.
I have a very basic Nokia phone. I use no data at all.
Up until about 4 years ago I had top quality service with ATT. Now it is a little above sucky.
ATT way oversold their bandwidth to get the Iphone market and then that degraded the service of everyone who already had ATT. Screw your existing customers to get new ones. Typical idiot corporate reasoning.
Why do I have trouble believing that?
I left the rotten AT&T for T-Monil. PLEASE don’t let AT&T buy them. AT&T one of the worst companies out there as far as value for service provided.
Translation: There will now be limits on your “unlimited” plan.
Obama and Net Neutrality sticks again. Grey Eagle
And everyone here is more than happy to allow them to start monetizing every bit coming thru THEIR internet. You people have no clue what is going to happen.