Posted on 05/21/2010 7:06:28 PM PDT by markomalley
AT&T Inc. is raising the fees it charges buyers of the iPhone and other smart phones if they break their two-year contracts, while lowering them for "dumb" phones to better align the fees with their real costs.
Starting June 1, smart-phone buyers will have to pay $325 for breaking their contract, up from $175 currently. For buyers of regular phones, the fee is being decreased by $25 to $150.
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Both companies are shipping as many of their jobs overseas as they can.
One IT guy I know in India pays $1 a month for his cell phone service.
And about every other carrier I know lets you sign up for one year contracts, like T-mobile. Makes it easier for those who like to upgrade phones for better or newer models less than every two years.
With AT&T, before the two years is up, you want to upgrade to a different phone, they charge you double to triple the price of what the phones costs to new subscribers. Upgrade to a different phone, they also force your contract to restart another 2 years.
It’s a ugly vicious cycle only a communist could love.
Dumped AT&T well over a decade ago for the poor quality on their signal margins. Won't say Voicestream/T-Mobile is perfect, but they are WAY above anything else we've seen in meeting our needs. (We don't travel in hinterlands much; coverage seems to be their weakest point, but it's improving hugely year-to-year.)
More AP propaganda telling us that big business is bad and is trying to gouge us. I am smelling a Telecom Reform Act from the Obama Administration in the near future.
Different strokes, for different folks ... I've gone 'touch', and I've never go back to pushing buttons....
Also remember that AT&T was one of the first companies to state that the Health Care Reform Bill will cost it $1B dollars this year. This propaganda is also a slam on AT&T by the Obama Administration telling it to keep its mouth shut in the future about addition taxes. It is a warning to others.
Ditto.
It's not hard to keep clean, folk.
Buy unlocked phones people!
The sad part is no American is invited to apply for jobs in India. They have this thing about foreign workers. LOL
Trac Fone
Yep...they are definitely working on a Verizon iPhone...I asked a Verizon employee...Shouldn’t be much longer.
Or you could go with Android and use whatever carrier you want!
Not sprint.
Too Late!...I’m stuck in a smartphone contract already...with Verizon...LOL
I do the same thing with sprint phones. Plenty of new ones on CL for sale.
Paid 200. for a brand new Samsung Moment (android)
and 200. for a HTC Hero (android).
Did it outside a contract. that’s the best way to go.
Verizon iPhone 4G Release Date In 2010 & Voice Plus Data Transmission Likely On Verizon iPhone: Report
20 May, 2010
Lately there have been many reports of Verizon iPhone 4G release date from different sources. Some say its June 2010 while others say it will be 2011 and 2012.
With the latest reports of Apple placing order for 24 million CDMA units, the expectation for iPhone 4G release date with Verizon is rising.
Hours after an AT&T executive said yesterday that they were unfazed by the prospect of an Verizon iPhone, reports started cming in that Verizon iPhone could offer simultaneous voice and data transmission over a precursor to its LTE 4G network.
Boy Genius Report relayed a rumor yesterday that a new Verizon iPhone could use Voice over Rev. A, or VoRA, network. According to Pcworld.com this connectivity will allow simultaneous voice and data connections. Currently, these features are not available on the carrier’s CDMA network.
“According to our source, Verizon has been testing VoRA as a precursor to VoLTE, and as long as the network upgrade and iPhone release are aligned, we should see this happen. If it happens,” the report said.
If you must do ATT, just get the android phone. I’ve had both, the android is a better device and 1/4 the cost... plus, you don’t have to play the apple games.
I have an iPhone. I do like it, a lot, it’s very handy. (I will not use the word “love” about a phone. It’s creepy.) I use Macs, so I like how it ties in with the Mac OS and MobileMe. If I get rid of it, I’ll switch to Google and get the same thing, so I’m not too concerned about losing the “iPhone” experience.
However, I despise AT&T. Their network is substandard in major metro areas like SF and NYC, they lied about it last year and got caught, and one of their execs thinks we should pay MORE for their lousy network - so much for “unlimited”.
My contract expired after the new year, and I’m on month to month. I’m keeping it that way until the phone dies, or Verizon gets an iPhone. I will never lock myself into a 2-year contract with AT&T again. They could’nt even give me a discount on the 3Gs iphone, after two years - if I got one, I’d have to pay teh same price a new customer would pay, and get locked in another two years.
Nope. AT&T? Never again. iPad? It’s on AT&T, won’t get one (the wifi one is useless to me).
If Verizon does not get an iPhone by the end of the summer, I will probably get an Incredible. I can jailbreak my iPhone then, and use it as a PDA/iPod. (Okay, most likely it will sit in a drawer.)
The AT&T ship is already listing and taking on water. Apple already has a Taiwan manufacturer ready to make the CDMA iPhone for Verizon, and T-Mobile already has the GSM iPhone in Europe. It’s just a matter of time. I have friends who unlocked their iPhones and put them on T-Mobile here in Atlanta. Unfortunately the current hardware won’t work on Verizon.
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